The DBToaster Project

General information

We develop aggressive compilation techniques for database query processing. In the DBToaster project, we specifically focus on realizing what we call agile views, which are queries whose results we continuously keep fresh and available as a database undergoes rapid change. Agile views have important applications in large-scale interactive data analysis, database and policy monitoring, Markov Chain Monte Carlo, and automated trading. Our techniques are based on highly efficient incremental query evaluation techniques. We are currently also working on a compiler for generating massively parallel data management systems based on lightweight components for data analysis in the cloud.

This is a joint project with Johns Hopkins University and SUNY Buffalo.

Detailed information can be found at http://www.dbtoaster.org.

Publications

Lithium tantalate photonic integrated circuits for volume manufacturing

C. Wang; Z. Li; J. Riemensberger; G. Lihachev; M. Churaev et al. 

Nature. 2024-05-08. DOI : 10.1038/s41586-024-07369-1.

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Parity in bacterial communities and resistomes: Microplastic and natural organic particles in the Tyrrhenian Sea

A. Di Cesare; M. B. Sathicq; T. Sbaffi; R. Sabatino; D. Manca et al. 

Marine Pollution Bulletin. 2024. Vol. 203, p. 116495. DOI : 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.116495.

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DBFS: Dynamic Bitwidth-Frequency Scaling for Efficient Software-defined SIMD

P. Yu; F. Ponzina; A. S. J. Levisse; Biswas Dwaipayan; Ansaloni Giovanni et al. 

2024-05-07. 2024 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, July 1-3, 2024.

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Antibodies expand the scope of angiotensin receptor pharmacology

M. A. Skiba; S. M. Sterling; S. Rawson; S. Zhang; H. Xu et al. 

Nature Chemical Biology. 2024. DOI : 10.1038/s41589-024-01620-6.

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Learning from Chernobyl: Reverse Colonialism and Feral Architectures

A. Frías-Sánchez; J. Perailes-Santiago; O. Orap 

HIPOTESIS SERIE NUMERADA. 2023-12-30. Vol. 11, p. 39-51. DOI : 10.37536/htsn.11.2023.156.

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Method for estimating synchrophasors during static and dynamic conditions

A. Derviskadic; P. Romano; M. Paolone 

US 11,204,375.

2021-12-21.

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Stochastic pairwise preference convergence in Bayesian agents

M. Hongler 

Physical Review E. 2024. Vol. 109, num. 5, p. 054106. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevE.109.054106.

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Morphological and Material Programability of a Hall-Effect Based Soft Tactile Sensors

S. Lee; J. Hughes 

2024. 2024 IEEE 7th International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), San Diego, CA, USA, April 14-17, 2024. p. 325-331. DOI : 10.1109/RoboSoft60065.2024.10521990.

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Rising from rubble – Leveraging existing construction tools for upcycling concrete waste into slender walls

M. Grangeot; Q. Wang; K. Beyer; C. Fivet; S. Parascho 

2024-05-24. ROB|ARCH Robotic Fabrication in Architecture, Art, and Design, Toronto, Canada, May 21-25, 2024.

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Songona 2, un ensemble domestique pré-dogon au pied de la falaise

A. A-L. Terrier; Mayor Anne 

SLSA Jahresbericht. 2007. Vol. La dixième année de recherche du programme “Peuplement humain et paléoenvironnement en Afrique de l’Ouest, p. 101-107.

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Project Participants (EPFL members listed only)

Alumni

  • Thierry Coppey
  • Oliver Kennedy (still in the project, but now at SUNY Buffalo)

Acknowledgments

This project is supported by ERC grant 279804 ALGILE.