Hasso-Plattner-Institut
Prof. Dr. Tilmann Rabl
 

Prof. Viktor Leis

Affiliation: Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
Title: Towards Cost-Optimal Query Processing in the Cloud
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Abstract

Public cloud providers offer hundreds of heterogeneous hardware instances. For analytical query processing systems, this presents both a challenge and an opportunity. Depending on the hardware configuration, performance and cost may differ by orders of magnitude. In this talk, I will present a simple and intuitive model that takes the workload, hardware, and cost into account to determine the optimal instance configuration. Such a model-based approach can significantly reduce costs and also guide the evolution of cloud-native database systems to achieve cost-optimal query processing in the cloud.
 

Short CV

Viktor Leis is a Professor for Data Management at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. His research revolves around designing high-performance data management systems and includes core database topics such as query processing, query optimization, index structures, and storage. Viktor received his doctoral degree in 2016 from the Technical University of Munich, where he worked on the main-memory database system HyPer. He is the recipient of the ACM SIGMOD dissertation award, the IEEE TCDE Rising Star Award, and four best paper awards at ICDE and SIGMOD.