Data Management Lab

I have been involved in the following academic research initiatives or industrial projects:

FlashyDB DFG Project: Impact of Flash Solid State Disks on Performance and Architecture of Data-Intensive Software Systems

SIAS-Chains: Snapshot Isolation Append Storage Chains
R. Gottstein, I. Petrov, S. Hardock, A. Buchmann.
In Proc. ADMS@VLDB 2017 [PDF]
From In-Place Updates to In-Place Appends: Revisiting Out-of-Place Updates on Flash
S. Hardock, I. Petrov, R. Gottstein, A. Buchmann.
In Proc. SIGMOD 2017 [PDF]
Selective In-Place Appends for Real: Reducing Erases on Wear-prone DBMS Storage
S. Hardock, I. Petrov, R. Gottstein, A. Buchmann.
In Proc. ICDE 2017 [PDF] [Video]
In-Place Appends for Real: DBMS Overwrites on Flash without Erase
S. Hardock, I. Petrov, R. Gottstein, A. Buchmann.
In Proc. EDBT 2017 [PDF]
Effective DBMS space management on native Flash.
S. Hardock, I. Petrov, R. Gottstein, A. Buchmann.
In Proc. BTW 2017 [PDF]
Revisiting DBMS Space Management for Native Flash.
S. Hardock, I. Petrov, R. Gottstein, A. Buchmann.
In Proc. EDBT 2016 [PDF]
DBMS on Modern Storage Hardware
I. Petrov, R. Gottstein, S. Hardock.
In Proc. ICDE 2015 [PDF]
NoFTL for Real: Databases on Real Native Flash Storage.
S. Hardock, I. Petrov, R. Gottstein, A. Buchmann.
In Proc. EDBT 2015 [Video] [PDF]
SIAS-V in Action: Snapshot Isolation Append Storage - Vectors on Flash
Robert Gottstein, Thorsten Peter, Ilia Petrov and Alejandro Buchmann.
In 17th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT) 2014.
Multi-Version Databases on Flash: Append Storage and Access Paths
Robert Gottstein, Ilia Petrov, Alejandro Buchmann.
In n International Journal On Advances in Software, Vol. 6, Number 3 and 4 2013.
Read Optimisations for Append Storage on Flash
Robert Gottstein, Ilia Petrov, Alejandro Buchmann
17th International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium, Barcelona, Spain, ACM, 2013.
FBARC: I/O Asymmetry-Aware Buffer Replacement Strategy
Paul Dubs, Ilia Petrov, Robert Gottstein, Alejandro Buchmann
Workshop on Accelerating Data Management Systems Using Modern Processor and Storage Architectures" (ADMS 2013), in conjunction with VLDB 2013, Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy in August 2013.
NoFTL: Database Systems on FTL-less Flash Storage.
S. Hardock, I. Petrov, R. Gottstein, A. Buchmann.
In Proc. VLDB 2013 [PDF]
Aspects of Append-Based Database Storage Management on Flash Memories
Robert Gottstein, Ilia Petrov, Alejandro Buchmann
DBKDA 2013, The Fifth International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications, 2013
Best Paper Award.
Append Storage in Multi-Version Databases on Flash
Robert Gottstein, Ilia Petrov, Alejandro Buchmann
29th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 2013, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, 2013.
Aspects of Append-Based Database Storage Management on Flash Memories
Robert Gottstein, Ilia Petrov, Alejandro Buchmann
DBKDA 2013, The Fifth International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications, 2013.
Data-Intensive Systems on Evolving Memory Hierarchies
Ilia Petrov, Daniel Bausch, Robert Gottstein, Alejandro Buchmann
Proceedings of Workshop Entwicklung energiebewusster Software (EEbS 2012), 42. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI), 2012.
SI-CV: Snapshot Isolation with Co-located Versions
Robert Gottstein, Ilia Petrov, Alejandro Buchmann
In Raghunath Nambiar, Meikel Poess: Topics in Performance Evaluation, Measurement and Characterization, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7144, ISBN 978-3-642-32626-4, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2012
10.1007/978-3-642-32627-1_9.
SI-CV: Snapshot Isolation With Co-Located Versions
Robert Gottstein, Ilia Petrov, Alejandro Buchmann
Proceedings TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation [&] Benchmarking (TPCTC 2011), VLDB 2011, 2011.

- since October 2010: Ph.D Student FlashyDB, Databases and Distributed Systems Group, TU-Darmstadt