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This past Monday I listened to Shivnath Babu of Duke University present a lecture entitled “MADDER and Self-tuning data analytics on Hadoop with Starfish“. In a nutshell, the Starfish project is about the development of self-tuning and self-managing technology for Hadoop systems, and many of the same challenges that exist in self-managing relational database systems, [...]

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Yesterday afternoon I listened to Christoph Koch of Cornell University (soon he’ll be moving to EPFL in Lausanne) as he presented a lecture entitled “Aggressive Compilation Techniques for Online Aggregation” at the University of Waterloo. This talk is about supporting continuous aggregation queries over data streams, part of the DBToaster Project. DBToaster was first described [...]

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