Welcome to the pages of the Big Data Analytics Group at Saarland University.
| 15.03.2021 | New paper "A Critical Analysis of Recursive Model Indexes" accepted to PVLDB/VLDB 2022. |
| 21.10.2021 | New paper "The next 50 Years in Database Indexing or: The Case for Automatically Generated Index Structures" accepted to PVLDB/VLDB 2022. |
| 30.04.2021 | New paper "Fast Compilation and Execution of SQL Queries with WebAssembly" submitted to VLDB. Pre-print available on arXiv. |
| 16.10.2020 | New paper "chainifyDB: How to get rid of your Blockchain and use your DBMS instead" accepted to CIDR 2021. |
| 2.3.2020 | We have received 840.000€ of funding from BMBF to develop ChainifyDB into a spin-off. Press Release. |
| 20.11.2019 | In the context of our blockchain project ChainifyDB, we are
currently looking for full-time research assistants with a focus on software engineering
and |
| 06.10.2019 | We are currently looking for a scientific assistant to support us in software development and testing. A more detailed job description can be found here. |
| 14.10.2019 | New paper "The Case for Deep Query Optimization" accepted to CIDR 2020. |
| 26.5.2019 | New "Data Science and Artificial Intelligence" BSc and MSc program at Saarland U! |
| 29.4.2019 | New paper "The Error is the Feature: how to Forecast Lightning using a Model Prediction Error" accepted to SIGKDD 2019. |
| 11.3.2019 | New paper "Blurring the Lines between Blockchains and Database Systems: the Case of Hyperledger Fabric" accepted to SIGMOD 2019. |
| 6.10.2018 | JD will be speaking at Frankfurt Data Science on Nov 1. |
| 27.9.2018 | JD will be speaking at the IT-Themenabend on „Künstliche Intelligenz oder Mensch - wer entscheidet?", Nov 2018. |
| 14.9.2018 | JD will be speaking at PyCon Karlsruhe. |
| 14.9.2018 | JD will be speaking at PyData Frankfurt. |
| 14.9.2018 | JD will be speaking at code.talks, Hamburg. |
| 4.9.2018 | JD interviewed on local TV. |
| 1.8.2018 | JD's PyData 2018, Berlin, talk available on youtube Big Data Systems Performance: The Little Shop of Horrors. |
| 24.4.2018 | New paper "An Analysis and Comparison of Database Cracking Kernels" accepted to SIGMOD DaMoN 2018. |
| 20.4.2018 | JD's slides Data Science ≠ Machine Learning from the AI-panel at ICDE |
| 9.4.2018 | Our proseminar Einführung in Data Science has received the award of the students' council representation (Busy Beaver Award) for the best seminar in winter term WS 17/18. |
| 14.3.2018 | We will be coorganizing another Data Science summer school in September (stay tuned). |
| 10.3.2018 | Proseminar 13 Wochen - 13 Blockchains |
| 6.3.2018 | New paper "Accelerating Analytical Processing in MVCC using Fine-Granular High-Frequency Virtual Snapshotting" accepted to SIGMOD 2018. |
| 5.1.2018 | Slides of JD's VLDB 2017 keynote Deep Learning (m)eats Databases. |
| 23.12.2017 | New paper "Adaptive Adaptive Indexing" accepted to ICDE 2018. |
| 01.12.2017 | JD recently joined the scientific advisory board of Software AG |
| 16.11.2017 | JD will give a keynote at the DEEM-workshop (Data Management for End-To-End Machine Learning) at SIGMOD 2018. |
| 24.08.2017 | Together with some great colleagues I am working on a start-up in the intersection of Databases and Deep Learning. A first version of our webpage is online: http://daimond.ai |
| 04.08.2017 | Upcoming keynote of JD at VLDB 2017 on Deep Learning (m)eats Databases |
| 02.05.2017 | We are hiring! HiWi Position as a C++ Developer with a focus on Testing |
| 17.03.2017 | We will be co-organizing the Data Science Summer School at Saarland University, September 18-22, 2017. |
| 15.12.2016 | Due to an internal group reorganization we lost two Ph.D. students (Felix Martin Schuhknecht and Endre Palatinus). However, we could replace them by two new postdocs (Dr. Felix Martin Schuhknecht and Dr. Endre Palatinus). Congratulations! Great job! |
| 30.08.2016 | At VLDB 2016 our group will present three papers (two at the conf, one at the ADMS-IMDM workshop), see here, here, and here. We are also involved in a tutorial on Operational Data Analytics (thanks to Alfons Kemper for replacing me!). |
| 01.08.2016 | New paper Runtime Fragility in Main Memory accepted to ADMS-IMDM@VLDB 2016 |
| 08.06.2016 | on May 25 Dr. Stefan Richter successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis |
| 21.04.2016 | New paper RUMA has it: Rewired User-space Memory Access is Possible! accepted to PVLDB/VLDB 2016 |
| 10.04.2016 | JD becomes dean (Prodekan) of computer science |
| 04.04.2016 | tutorial on Operational Analytics Data Management Systems accepted at VLDB 2016 |
| 01.03.2016 | Patterns in Data Management book is available on amazon! Both the ebook and the paperback (with color graphics!) are now available at amazon: Patterns in Data Management: A Flipped Textbook (English Edition) |
| 18.12.2015 | Dr. Stefan Schuh successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis |
| 09.12.2015 | excerpt from my new book Patterns in Data Management available for download |
| 23.11.2015 | new CRC/SFB "Methods and Tools for Understanding and Controlling Privacy" accepted, JD is one of the Principal Investigators press release (in German) |
| 23.11.2015 | New paper An Experimental Comparison of Thirteen Relational Equi-Joins in Main Memory accepted to SIGMOD 2016 |
| 21.09.2015 | New paper A Seven-Dimensional Analysis of Hashing Methods and its Implications on Query Processing accepted to PVLDB/VLDB 2016 |
| 13.07.2015 | An Experimental Evaluation and Analysis of Database Cracking accepted at VLDBJ (special issue on best papers of VLDB 2014) |
| 10.06.2015 | article on JD's talk at Saarland university's children university in local newspaper pdf (German) |
| 01.06.2015 | our demo Janiform Intra-Document Analytics for Reproducible Research was accepted at VLDB 2015, a preprint is here, the project is open source, an alpha version is available on github |
| 21.05.2015 | our portable and janiform database files project is now open source, an alpha version is available on github |
| 10.03.2015 | video of JD's keynote The Case for Small Data Management given at the German Database conference BTW 2015 is online. This is the 45 minute version of my CIDR 2015 Gong Show talk. |
| 10.03.2015 | Our mini-paper On the Surprising Difficulty of Simple Things: the Case of Radix Partitioning was accepted at VLDB 2015. |
| 07.01.2015 | Best Presentation Award at the CIDR 2015 Gong Show for The Case for Small Data Management |
| 21.10.2014 | Screencast über 7 Don'ts and Dos im Inverted Classroom Modell ist online |
| 20.10.2014 | Our dagstuhl perspectives workshop manifesto on MOOCs is online |
| 20.10.2014 | Our paper A Comparison of Adaptive Radix Trees and Hash Tables was accepted at ICDE 2015. |
| 08.09.2014 | Our paper The Uncracked Pieces in Database Cracking received a best paper award at VLDB 2014, press release (in German) |
| 05.05.2014 | Paper accepted at SIGMOD DaMoN 2014: Main Memory Adaptive Indexing for Multi-core Systems |
| 09.04.2014 | TR on Main Memory Adaptive Indexing for Multi-core Systems available at arXiv:1404.2034 [cs.DB] |
| 31.03.2014 | JD bietet im Rahmen der Hochschuldidaktik am 31.7. einen eintägigen Workshop zu Inverted Classroom an |
| 03/2014 | JD participated in a Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop on Massively open online courses, current state and perspectives. A manifesto summarizing the workshop will appear in May. |
| 24.02.2014 | JD hält einen eingeladenen Vortrag bei der Inverted Classroom-Konferenz, Marburg: "Die umgedrehte Vorlesung – Erfahrungen mit einer gnuselrovkitamrofnI" youtube |
| 21.01.2014 | Fernsehbericht am 20.01.2014 im WDR Fernsehen über Das Uran des 21. Jahrhunderts |
| 21.12.2013 | Fernsehbericht am 20.12.2013 im SR über Das Uran des 21. Jahrhunderts, das youtube-Video dazu findet sich hier |
| 10.12.2013 | Symposium: Wie sicher sind Unternehmensdaten in der "Cloud"? am 11.12.2013 von 14.00 bis 17.00 Uhr, Gebäude E1 1, Raum 407, Pressemeldung, Video Mansdörfer, Video Trüg |
| 29.11.2013 | Artikel Die Umgedrehte Vorlesung - Chancen für die Informatiklehre angenommen im Datenbank-Spektrum. |
| 15.10.2013 | Busy Beaver Teaching Award (best undergrad lecture in computer science) for our inverted classroom: Informationssysteme |
| 12.08.2013 | Paper accepted at PVLDB/VLDB 2014: The Uncracked Pieces in Database Cracking |
| 24.07.2013 | Article accepted at The VLDB Journal: Towards Zero-Overhead Static and Adaptive Indexing in Hadoop |
| 03.06.2013 | Demo accepted at VLDB 2013: Mosquito: Another One Bites the Data Upload STream |
| 03.06.2013 | Vortrag von Jörn Loviscach über MOOCs und Flipped Teaching am 7. Juni, 12:15 Uhr in E1 3, HS II (Pressemeldung) |
| 11.04.2013 | Vorlesungseite zur VL Informationssysteme ist online |
| 14.03.2013 | Data Engineering Bulletin article Efficient OR Hadoop: Why not both? available (long version of Datenbank Spektrum article) |
| 11.03.2013 | CeBIT Science Slam Videos are online: Ezgi Cicek, Daniel Mewes, Andreas Zeller, Jens Dittrich |
| 05.03.2013 | SZ Bericht über den Science Slam Workshop |
| 05.03.2013 | We are offering postdoc positions in the area of big data. |
| 04.03.2013 | We are running three mini science slams at CeBIT on March 9 at 11am, 1pm, and 3pm; Halle 9, Stand 34. Two students of my science slam workshop will also present. |
| 04.03.2013 | HAIL is shown at CeBIT from March 5-9. Visit us in Halle 9, Stand 34. press release: German English |
| 04.03.2013 | Was ist eigentlich ein Science Slam? youtube |
| 19.02.2013 | We are organizing a Science Slam at the Canossa on Feb 27, 3:00pm, most of the talks will be in German, some in English, admission free! Most talks will be given by participants of my science slam workshop |
| 01.02.2013 | Full paper accepted at PVLDB vol.6/VLDB 2013: A Comparison of Knives for Bread Slicing. |
| 17.01.2013 | Gong show video is online. |
| 14.01.2013 | New Datenbank Spektrum article Efficient OR Hadoop: Why not both? available. |
| 09.01.2013 | Best Gong Show Presentation Award at CIDR 2013 for "say No! No! and No!", video following soon... |
| 17.12.2012 | TR on Towards Zero-Overhead Adaptive Indexing in Hadoop is available. |
| 06.12.2012 | Slides on Efficiently Indexing AND Querying Big Data in Hadoop MapReduce are available. |
| 03.12.2012 | Several postdoc positions available |
| 01.12.2012 | JD becomes full professor at UdS |
| 12.11.2012 | Finale verfügbar in der ARD Mediathek (JD @36:15) |
| 08.11.2012 | Am Freitag, 9. November findet das Finale der Deutschen Meisterschaften im Science Slam statt (ausverkauft), JD ist einer der Teilnehmer |
| 15.10.2012 | Two papers accepted at CIDR 2013: |
| 04.10.2012 | 1st place, Southern German Science Slam Finals, Ulm (JD); qualification for federal finals on Nov 9 at ZKM in Karlsruhe (press: swp) |
