> Elasticity in Serverless Systems
> Data Processing in the Cloud

• Opinion Pieces of the BTW 2025 Workshop on Advances in Cloud Data Management @ DASP 2025
  Thomas Bodner, Alexander Böhm, Maximilian Böther, Ana Klimovic, Dominik Durner, Martin Grund, Andreas Kipf, Ismail Oukid, Berni Schiefer, Panos Parchas, Hinnerk Gildhoff, Philipp Unterbrunner, Tomas Karnagel, Jana Giceva, Tobias Ziegler, Martin Hentschel
  > Paper
• TCO2: Analyzing the Carbon Footprint of Database Server Replacements @ VLDB 2025
  Marc Baeuerle, Thomas Bodner, Martin Boissier, Tilmann Rabl, Ricardo Salazar-Díaz, Florian Schmeller, Nils Strassenburg, Ilin Tolovski, Marcel Weisgut, Wang Yue
  > Paper > Code
• A Demonstration of Skyrise: A Serverless Query Processor @ BTW 2025
  Thomas Bodner, Tilmann Rabl
  > Paper > Poster > Code
• Skyrise: Exploiting Serverless Cloud Infrastructure for Elastic Data Processing @ DASP 2025
  Thomas Bodner, Daniel Ritter, Martin Boissier, Tilmann Rabl
  > Paper > Preprint > Code
• An Interactive Analysis of Serverless Cloud Infrastructure @ EDBT 2025
  Thomas Bodner, Tilmann Rabl
  > Paper > Poster > Code
• An Empirical Evaluation of Serverless Cloud Infrastructure for Large-Scale Data Processing @ EDBT 2025 (Best Experiments and Analysis Paper Award)
  Thomas Bodner, Theo Radig, David Justen, Daniel Ritter, Tilmann Rabl
  > Paper > Preprint > Slides > Code
• A Case for Ecological Efficiency in Database Server Lifecycles @ CIDR 2025
  Thomas Bodner, Martin Boissier, Tilmann Rabl, Ricardo Salazar-Díaz, Florian Schmeller, Nils Strassenburg, Ilin Tolovski, Marcel Weisgut, Wang Yue
  > Paper > Slides > Code
• POLAR: Adaptive and Non-invasive Join Order Selection via Plans of Least Resistance @ VLDB 2024
  David Justen, Daniel Ritter, Campbell Fraser, Andrew Lamb, Nga Tran, Allison Lee, Thomas Bodner, Mhd Yamen Haddad, Steffen Zeuch, Volker Markl, Matthias Böhm
  > Paper > Slides > Poster > Code
• BabelMR: A Polyglot Framework for Serverless MapReduce @ VLDB SDA 2023
  Fabian Mahling, Paul Rößler, Thomas Bodner, Tilmann Rabl
  > Paper > Slides > Code
• Doppler: Understanding Serverless Query Execution @ SIGMOD BiDEDE 2022
  Thomas Bodner, Tobias Pietz, Lars Jonas Bollmeier, Daniel Ritter
  > Paper > Slides > Code
• Elastic Query Processing on Function as a Service Platforms @ VLDB PhD Workshop 2020
  Thomas Bodner
  > Paper > Slides
• Towards Scalable Real-time Analytics: An Architecture for Scale-out of OLXP Workloads @ VLDB 2015
  Anil Goel, Jeffrey Pound, Nathan Auch, Peter Bumbulis, Scott MacLean, Franz Färber, Francis Gropengiesser, Christian Mathis, Thomas Bodner, Wolfgang Lehner
  > Paper
• Myriad: Parallel Data Generation on Shared-nothing Architectures @ PACT ASBD 2011
  Alexander Alexandrov, Berni Schiefer, John Poelman, Stephan Ewen, Thomas Bodner, Volker Markl
  > Paper > Code

• Generation of Bots Based on Observed Behavior
  Gregor Berg, Andre Niklas Wenz, Bernhard Hoeppner, Thomas Bodner, Olga Cherepanova, Lasse Steffen, Jan Siebert, David Hennemann, Pascal Schulze, Konstantin Dobler, Kris-Fillip Kahl, Paul Udo Beneke, Philipp Bernhard Hoberg
  > US 2019 > US 2021 > US 2024
• An Algorithm for Consistent Replication of Log-Structured Data
  Peter Bumbulis, Jeffrey Pound, Nathan Auch, Anil Goel, Matthias Ringwald, Thomas Bodner, Scott MacLean 
  > US 2016 > EP 2017

Paper Supervision:

• Fabian Mahling and Paul Rößler, published workshop paper @ VLDB SDA 2023
• David Justen, published abstract @ SIGMOD SRC 2022

Master Thesis Supervision:

• Hybrid Serverless/Serverful Query Execution, Lars Jonas Bollmeier, 2024
• Elastic Data Shuffling on Cloud Function Memory, Moritz Manner, 2023
• Single Node Performance for In-situ Serverless Query Processing, Theo Radig, 2023
• Cost-aware Pruning with Filters in Serverless Data Management, Timon Millich, 2022
• Serverless Maintenance of Database Statistics and Cached Query Results, Pascal Schulze, 2022
• Cost-efficiency and Robustness in Serverless Join Processing, David Justen, 2021
• Query Compilation for Distributed Execution with Cloud Functions, Julian Menzler, 2021
• Straggler Mitigation in Distributed Query Execution on Cloud Functions, Fabian Engel, 2021
• Elastic Query Execution via Short-lived and Stateless Cloud Functions, Jan Mensch, 2020
• Network Request Handling in Database Systems, Toni Stachewicz, 2019
• Data-dependent Implicit Authorizations for Fine-grained Database Access Control, Dennis Hempfing, 2018
• Pushing Down User-defined Functionality in Distributed Log-centric Big Data Stacks, Josephine Rückert (from TU Ilmenau), 2017

Lectures:

• Big Data Systems (Master, Winter 2024/25)
• Trends and Concepts in the Software Industry I (Master, Summer 2021)
• Trends and Concepts in the Software Industry I (Master, Summer 2020)
• Trends and Concepts in the Software Industry I (Master, Summer 2019)
• Trends and Concepts in the Software Industry I (Master, Summer 2018)

Lab Courses:

• Big Data Lab (Master, Winter 2023/24)

Seminars:

• Joint Database Systems Seminar with TU Darmstadt (PhD, Winter 2024/25)
• Develop your own Database (Master, Summer 2023)
• Research and Implementation of Database Concepts (Master, Winter 2022/23)
• Joint Database Systems Seminar with TU Darmstadt (PhD, Winter 2022/23)
• Develop your own Database (Master, Summer 2022)
• Research and Implementation of Database Concepts (Master, Winter 2021/22)
• Trends and Concepts in the Software Industry II (Master, Winter 2021/22)
• Research and Implementation of Database Concepts (Master, Winter 2020/21)
• Develop your own Database (Master, Summer 2019)

Projects:

• Building an Elastic Query Engine on Serverless Cloud Infrastructure (Master, Summer 2021)
• Performance Engineering for Cloud-based Database Systems (Master, Summer 2020)
• Usage Mining for the Enterprise (Bachelor, Summer 2019)
• Usage Mining for the Enterprise (Bachelor, Winter 2018/19)

• 2027: PVLDB, ICDE, EDBT
• 2026: EDBT Demo
• 2025: SIGMOD ARI, Journal of Big Data
• 2024: ICDE DataPlat Workshop