UW Database Group

The University of Washington's database group aims at broadening the focus of database and data management techniques beyond their traditional scope. We do both theoretical and systems work in areas such as probabilistic databases, stream processing, sensor-based monitoring, databases and the web, XML, data management for ubiquitous computing, data integration, and data mining.

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Recent News

• May 18, 2018:

  ‘LightDB: A DBMS for Virtual Reality’ has been accepted at VLDB 2018. Congrats Brandon Haynes, Amrita Mazumdar, Armin Alaghi, Magdalena Balazinska, Luis Ceze, Alvin Cheung!

• April 18, 2018:

  Two of Jennifer Ortiz’s papers got accepted!

  • ‘SLAOrchestrator - Reducing the Cost of Performance SLAs in the Cloud’ at USENIX ATC 2018
  • ‘Learning State Representations for Query Optimization with Deep Reinforcement Learning’ at the DEEM Workshop, SIGMOD 2018
• April 12, 2018:

  Laurel Orr received a honorable mention for the NCWIT Collegiate Award. Congrats Laurel!

• March 5, 2018:

  Four papers from UWDB got accepted into SIGMOD 2018!

  • ‘HypDB: Detect, Explain And Resolve Bias in OLAP’, Babak Salimi and Dan Suciu
  • ‘Automatically Leveraging MapReduce Frameworks for Data-Intensive Applications’, Maaz Ahmad and Alvin Cheung
  • ‘Synthesizing Type-Detection Logic for Rich Semantic Data Types Using Open-source Code’, Cong Yan
  • ‘FASTER: A Concurrent Key-Value Store with In-Place Updates’, Guna Prasaad
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Current Projects

Visual Road

A video data management benchmark

Pessimistic Query Optimization

Tighter bounds for intermediate join cardinalities

Image Analytics

Large scale image analytics on scientific data

DeepQuery

Query Optimization with Deep Reinforcement Learning

LightDB

A DBMS for Virtual Reality

Cuttlefish

A Lightweight Primitive for Adaptive Query Processing

EntropyDB

EntropyDB for Data Exploration

Myria

Big Data as a Service

SqlShare

Database-as-a-Service for High-Variety Data

QURO

Query reordering in OLTP transactions

PipeGen

Data Pipe Generation for Hybrid Analytics

Cosette

An Automated SQL Solver

ZaliQL

A Declarative Framework for Drawing Causal Inference from Big Data

HypDB

Detect, Explain And Resolve Bias in OLAP

LARA

A Key-Value Algebra underlying Arrays and Relations

UW Branch of SciDB

Parallel distributed array database engine

Data Eco$y$tem

Data management and pricing in the cloud

AstroDB

An inter-disciplinary collaboration for new methods and tools for Big Data Astronomy

Probabilistic Databases

Large scale probabilistic inference using database technology

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