Martin kersten — 2016 sigmod systems award

The latest company, MonetDB Solutions, was established in to support commercial exploitation and driving the open-source product technology of MonetDB. Kersten has dedicated his scientific career to the development and dissemination of database systems and technology.

Professor Martin Kersten is the recipient of the SIGMOD Systems Award for the design and implementation of MonetDB, a pioneering main-memory database.

Since the early nineties, he and his team developed MonetDB, an open source high-performance columnar database system. MonetDB contains innovations at all layers of a DBMS: a storage model based on vertical fragmentation, in-memory self-tuning indices, just-in-time query optimization, hardware aware database structures, and a modern CPU-tuned vectorized query execution architecture.

Codd Innovation Award for his influential contributions to advanced database architectures, most notably his pioneering work on columnar, in-memory, and hardware-conscious database technologies and their realisation in the MonetDB system. In the last decade, Martin Kersten shifted his focus towards the requirements of scientific databases.

Martin Kersten is the recipient of the SIGMOD Systems Award for the design and implementation of MonetDB, a pioneering main-memory database system.

Input from astronomy, seismology, and remote sensing applications lead to enrichments of relational database technology with just-in-time access to scientific file repositories, a symbiosis between the relational query model and array-based processing, and the support for statistics within a database kernel. MonetDB Kersten has dedicated his scientific career to the development and dissemination of database systems and technology.

Data science In the last decade, Martin Kersten shifted his focus towards the requirements of scientific databases.