Publications by Renata Borovica-Gajic

The Five-Minute Rule 30 Years Later and Its Impact on the Storage Hierarchy

Anastasia Ailamaki, Renata Borovica-Gajic, Raja Appuswamy

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

Smooth Scan: robust access path selection without cardinality estimation

Anastasia Ailamaki, Renata Borovica-Gajic

2018

The Five minute Rule Thirty Years Later and its Impact on the Storage Hierarchy

Anastasia Ailamaki, Renata Borovica-Gajic, Raja Appuswamy

2017

Cheap Data Analytics using Cold Storage Devices

Anastasia Ailamaki, Renata Borovica-Gajic, Raja Appuswamy

Enterprise databases use storage tiering to lower capital and operational expenses. In such a setting, data waterfalls from an SSD-based high-performance tier when it is "hot" (frequently accessed) to a disk-based capacity tier and finally to a tape-based ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

Toward timely, predictable and cost-effective data analytics

Renata Borovica-Gajic

Modern industrial, government, and academic organizations are collecting massive amounts of data at an unprecedented scale and pace. The ability to perform timely, predictable and cost-effective analytical processing of such large data sets in order to ext ...

EPFL2016

Smooth Scan: Statistics-Oblivious Access Paths

Anastasia Ailamaki, Renata Borovica-Gajic

Query optimizers depend heavily on statistics representing column distributions to create efficient query plans. In many cases, though, statistics are outdated or non-existent, and the process of refreshing statistics is very expensive, especially for ad-h ...

2015

NoDB: Efficient Query Execution on Raw Data Files

Anastasia Ailamaki, Ioannis Alagiannis, Renata Borovica-Gajic, Miguel Sérgio De Oliveira Branco

As data collections become larger and larger, users are faced with increasing bottlenecks in their data analysis. More data means more time to prepare and to load the data into the database before executing the desired queries. Many applications already av ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2015

Query management system and engine allowing for efficient query execution on raw details

Anastasia Ailamaki, Ioannis Alagiannis, Renata Borovica-Gajic, Miguel Sérgio De Oliveira Branco

A database system maintains a feature set of a modern database system while operating directly on raw data files. Systems may use an adaptive indexing mechanism that maintains positional information to provide efficient access to raw data files, a flexible ...

2014

NoDB: Efficient Query Execution on Raw Data Files

Anastasia Ailamaki, Ioannis Alagiannis, Renata Borovica-Gajic, Miguel Sérgio De Oliveira Branco

As data collections become larger and larger, data loading evolves to a major bottleneck. Many applications already avoid using database systems, e.g., scientific data analysis and social networks, due to the complexity and the increased data-to-query time ...

2012

NoDB in Action: Adaptive Query Processing on Raw Data

Anastasia Ailamaki, Ioannis Alagiannis, Renata Borovica-Gajic, Miguel Sérgio De Oliveira Branco

As data collections become larger and larger, users are faced with increasing bottlenecks in their data analysis. More data means more time to prepare the data, to load the data into the database and to execute the desired queries. Many applications alread ...

VLDB Endowment2012

Automated Physical Designers: What You See is (Not) What You Get

Anastasia Ailamaki, Ioannis Alagiannis, Renata Borovica-Gajic

The explosion of available data in the last few years has increased the importance of physical database design, since the selection of proper physical structures (e.g. indices, partitions and materialized views) may improve query execution performance by s ...

ACM2012

Challenges and Opportunities in Self-Managing Scientific Databases

Anastasia Ailamaki, Farhan Tauheed, Ioannis Alagiannis, Thomas Heinis, Renata Borovica-Gajic, Miguel Sérgio De Oliveira Branco

Advances in observation instruments and abundance of computational power for simulations encourage scientists to gather and produce unprecedented amounts of increasingly complex data. Organizing data automatically to enable efficient and unobstructed acces ...

2011