Modern Database Systems

News

(09/25) We are currently looking for motivated students with systems background and strong programming skills (e.g. C/C++, Rust, Zig) interested in research assistant positions (aka HiWi position) in the following areas:

  • Implementation & evaluation of memory-optimized B-trees
  • GPU-accelerated OLAP processing
  • Exploitation of novel storage & memory hardware for data processing (e.g. CXL, NVMe SSDs, FDP, HBM, etc.)
  • Raster Data Processing through Relational DBMSs

If you are interested in any of those topics, please contact Prof. Paradies

Team

Prof. Dr. Marcus Paradies

Research Group Leader

Constantin Pestka

Research Assistant

Current Research Topics

  • Modern Database Architectures for the Cloud and the Edge
  • Database Systems on modern hardware (in particular storage)
  • Database Support for Multi-Dimensional Raster Data
  • Resource- and energy-efficient data processing

Master/Bachelor Theses

  • Implementation of optimizations for memory-optimized B-trees (system-level programming skills required)
  • GPU-accelerated data analytics (OLAP-style queries) (system-level programming skills required)
  • Data processing on non-commodity hardware (e.g. Cerebras AI processor)

  • Sorting Columns for Better Column Compression (M)
  • Optimizing and evaluating matching strategies for detecting duplicates in bibliographic references within the CRExplorer (B)
  • A Performance Evaluation of Apache Iceberg and Modern Data Lake Architectures (B)
  • Implementation and Evaluation of Data Management Solutions for High-Resolution Time Series Data (B)

  • Efficient Data Access for In-Browser Data Analytics (B)
  • Benchmarking Multi-Dimensional Raster Data Processing Systems for Large-Scale Earth Observation Workflows (M)