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

Field Guide to Northern Tree-related Microhabitats: Descriptions and size limits for their inventory in boreal and hemiboreal forests of Europe and North America

R. Bütler Sauvain; L. Larrieu; L. F. Lunde; M. Maxence; B. Nordén et al. 

Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Switzerland, 2024.

Data Champions Lunch Talks – Green Bytes: Data-Driven Approaches to EPFL Sustainability

M. S. P. Cubero-Castan; M. Peon Quiros; C. Gabella; F. Varrato; Loïc Lannelongue 

Data Champions Lunch Talks – Green Bytes: Data-Driven Approaches to EPFL Sustainability, EPFL, CM 1 221, April 18, 2024.

Timelapse: Geneva Lake, in front of Chexbres – 2019

V. Kindschi 

2023.

German Democratic Radio

A. Thiermann 

Gesellschaft bauen. Architektur als Medium der Demokratie in der frühen Bundesrepublik, Berlin, Germany, March 24-25, 2022.

Aesthetics of Conservation; Aesthetics of Extinction. The Chilean Pavilion at the 59th Art Biennale

A. Thiermann 

Keynote Lecture at Villa Massimo, German Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy, October 10, 2022.

Type and History

A. Thiermann 

Tackle The Type: Filling Stations, Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 27, 2023.

The Broadcasting House: Architecture, Type, and the Culture Industry

A. Thiermann 

The Fifth Typology, Lausanne, Switzerland, April 4-5, 2023.

Infrastructures of Solidarity, Infrastructures of Totalitarism

A. Thiermann 

Listening to the World – 100 Years of Radio organised by the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, Germany, 21-22.10.2023.

Notes on Los Angeles

A. Thiermann 

Translational Histories of Architecture. A London symposium in honour of Jean-Louis Cohen (1949–2023), London, Great Britain, 2023-11-27.

Comparison of Three Viral Nucleic Acid Preamplification Pipelines for Sewage Viral Metagenomics

X. Fernandez Cassi; T. Kohn 

Food and Environmental Virology. 2024. DOI : 10.1007/s12560-024-09594-3.

Alumni

Acknowledgments

This project is supported by ERC grant 279804 ALGILE.