Daniel Abadi's Publications
Conference and Journal Publications
HadoopDB: An Architectural Hybrid of MapReduce and DBMS Technologies for Analytical Workloads
Azza Abouzeid, Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski, Daniel J. Abadi, Avi Silberschatz, and Alexander Rasin. In Proceedings of VLDB, 2009, Lyon, France. (pdf) (bibtex)
A Comparison of Approaches to Large Scale Data Analysis
Andrew Pavlo, Erik Paulson, Alexander Rasin, Daniel J. Abadi, David J. DeWitt, Samuel R. Madden, and Michael Stonebraker. In Proceedings of SIGMOD, 2009, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. (pdf) (bibtex)
Data Management in the Cloud: Limitations and Opportunities
Daniel J. Abadi. In IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, 32(1), 2009. (pdf) (bibtex)
SW-Store: A Vertically Partitioned DBMS for Semantic Web Data Management
Daniel J. Abadi, Adam Marcus, Samuel R. Madden, and Kate Hollenbach. In VLDB Journal, 18(2), 2009. (pdf) (bibtex)
Column-Stores vs. Row-Stores: How Different Are They Really?
Daniel J. Abadi, Samuel R. Madden, and Nabil Hachem. In Proceedings of SIGMOD, 2008, Vancouver, Canada. (pdf) (bibtex)
OLTP Through the Looking Glass, And What We Found There
Stavros Harizopoulos, Daniel J. Abadi, Samuel R. Madden, and Michael Stonebraker. In Proceedings of SIGMOD, 2008, Vancouver, Canada. (pdf) (bibtex)
Scalable Semantic Web Data Management Using Vertical Partitioning
Daniel J. Abadi, Adam Marcus, Samuel R. Madden, and Kate Hollenbach. In Proceedings of VLDB, 2007, Vienna, Austria. Winner: Best Paper Award. (pdf) (bibtex)
The End of an Architectural Era (It's Time for a Complete Rewrite)
Michael Stonebraker, Samuel R. Madden, Daniel J. Abadi, Stavros Harizopoulos, Nabil Hachem, and Pat Helland. In Proceedings of VLDB, 2007, Vienna, Austria. (pdf) (bibtex)
Column Stores for Wide and Sparse Data
Daniel J. Abadi. In Proceedings of CIDR, 2007, Asilomar, CA, USA. (pdf) (bibtex)
Materialization Strategies in a Column-Oriented DBMS
Daniel J. Abadi, Daniel S. Myers, David J. DeWitt, and Samuel R. Madden. In Proceedings of ICDE, 2007, Istanbul, Turkey. (pdf) (bibtex)
Performance Tradeoffs in Read-Optimized Databases
Stavros Harizopoulos, Velen Liang, Daniel J. Abadi, and Samuel R. Madden. In Proceedings of VLDB, 2006, Seoul, Korea. (pdf) (bibtex)
Integrating Compression and Execution in Column-Oriented Database Systems
Daniel J. Abadi, Samuel R. Madden, and Miguel Ferreira. In Proceedings of SIGMOD, 2006, Chicago, IL, USA. (pdf) (bibtex)
REED: Robust, Efficient Filtering and Event Detection in Sensor Networks
Daniel J. Abadi, Samuel R. Madden, and Wolfgang Lindner. In Proceedings of VLDB, 2005, Trondheim, Norway. (pdf) (bibtex)
C-Store: A Column-Oriented DBMS
Michael Stonebraker, Daniel J. Abadi, Adam Batkin, Xuedong Chen, Mitch Cherniack, Miguel Ferreira, Edmond Lau, Amerson Lin, Samuel R. Madden, Elizabeth J. O'Neil, Patrick E. O'Neil, Alexander Rasin, Nga Tran, and Stan B. Zdonik. In Proceedings of VLDB, 2005, Trondheim, Norway. (pdf) (bibtex)
The Design of the Borealis Stream Processing Engine
Daniel J. Abadi, Yanif Ahmad, Magdalena Balazinska, Ugur Cetintemel, Mitch Cherniack, Jeong-Hyon Hwang, Wolfgang Lindner, Anurag S. Maskey, Alexander Rasin, Esther Ryvkina, Nesime Tatbul, Ying Xing, and Stan B. Zdonik. In Proceedings of CIDR, 2005, Asilomar, CA, USA. (pdf) (bibtex)
Aurora: A New Model and Architecture for Data Stream Management
Daniel J. Abadi, Don Carney, Ugur Cetintemel, Mitch Cherniack, Christian Convey, Sangdon Lee, Michael Stonebraker, Nesime Tatbul, and Stan B. Zdonik. In VLDB Journal, 12(2), 2003. (pdf) (bibtex)
Demonstrations
H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System
Robert Kallman, Hideaki Kimura, Jonathan Natkins, Andrew Pavlo, Alex Rasin, Stan Zdonik, Evan Jones, Yang Zhang, Samuel Madden, Michael Stonebraker, John Hugg, and Daniel J. Abadi. Demonstration, VLDB, 2008, Aukland, New Zealand. (pdf) (bibtex)
An Integration Framework for Sensor Networks and Data Stream Management Systems
Daniel J. Abadi, Wolfgang Lindner, Samuel R. Madden, and Jorg Schuler. Demonstration, VLDB, 2004, Toronto, Canada. (pdf) (bibtex)
Aurora: A Data Stream Management System
Daniel J. Abadi, Don Carney, Ugur Cetintemel, Mitch Cherniack, Christian Convey, Christina Erwin, Eddie Galvez, Matt Hatoun, Jeong-Hyon Hwang, Anurag S. Maskey, Alexander Rasin, A. Singer, Michael Stonebraker, Nesime Tatbul, Ying Xing, R. Yan, and Stan B. Zdonik. Demonstration, SIGMOD, 2003, San Diego, CA, USA. (pdf) (bibtex)
Visual COKO: A Debugger for Query Optimizer Development
Daniel J. Abadi and Mitch Cherniack. Demonstration, SIGMOD, 2002, Madison, Wisconsin. (pdf) (bibtex)
Theses
PhD Thesis: Query Execution in Column-Oriented Database Systems. MIT PhD Dissertation, February, 2008. Winner: 2008 SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award. (bibtex)
Master's Thesis: Comparing Domain-Specific and Non-Domain-Specific Anaphora Resolution Techniques. Cambridge University MPhil Dissertation, July, 2003. (bibtex)
Undergraduate Senior Honors Thesis: Visual COKO: A Debugger for Query Optimizer Development. Brandeis University Senior Honors Thesis, May, 2002. Received Highest Honors (bibtex)