Systems Group @ SIGMOD 2025 in Berlin!

@sigmod2025.bsky.social @sigmod.bsky.social

Open PhD position in the Systems Group!

Focus is on using FPGAs (e.g., in Smart SSDs or Smart NICs) to address the divide between data growth and CPU stagnation as part of the recently launched CHORYS EU project.

Apply now; deadline is 13.05.2025!

www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/HPv3.Jobs/TU...?

Systems Group @ EDBT/ICDT 2025 in Barcelona!

@edbticdt.bsky.social

Paper accepted to the Datenbank-Spektrum: "Towards High-performance and Trusted Cloud DBMSs"

We explore how modern Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) like Intel SGX can be integrated into cloud DBMSs to enhance security while maintaining high performance.

rdcu.be/ecEOa

Systems Group @ BTW 2025 in Bamberg!

We had a wonderful time, huge thanks to the organizers and speakers!

Systems Group @ ELLIS RLGMSD workshop in Amsterdam to highlight how data engineering in enterprises is harder than public benchmarks make it look.

Thanks to the organizers and speakers for the great event!

Check out our papers:
vldb.org/workshops/20...
openreview.net/pdf?id=m85fY...

Paper accepted to VLDB'25: "ELEET: Efficient Learned Query Execution over Text and Tables"

ELEET is a query execution engine that integrates text sources into databases and achieves up to 575× speedups over LLM-based approaches without sacrificing accuracy.

www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol17/...

Paper accepted to SIGMOD'25: "How Good Are Learned Cost Models, Really? Insights from Query Optimization Tasks"

Learned Cost Models often predict execution costs more accurately than traditional cost models. But does this translate into better query plans?

Find out here: arxiv.org/abs/2502.01229

We are proud to share that Johannes Wehrstein and Carsten Binnig received the CIDR'25 Best Paper Award for their paper "Towards Foundation Database Models", which is the result of joint work with SystemsResearch@Google! 🏆

@jwehrstein.bsky.social

www.vldb.org/cidrdb/paper...

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Hello World! The Systems Group at TU Darmstadt is a collaboration of professors Carsten Binnig and Zsolt István from the Computer Science department, pursuing research and teaching in systems topics together.

@zistvan.bsky.social