RT @andy_pavlo: Buckle up because we're crashing into the new year with my annual database retrospective: License change blowbacks! @databr….

RT @marcgravell: garnet-server, Microsoft's RESP (Redis-alike) server built on the "FASTER" tech is now available as a .NET global tool, ma….

The Data Systems group at MSR Redmond @MSFTResearch is now looking for in-person summer 2025 interns in the data systems and exploration areas! Interested PhD students (US and international) can apply at -- thank you!.

At #VLDB2024, check our Bf-Tree, our high-perf B-Tree design optimized for small key-values. It uses a mini-page abstraction to cache reads/writes and a variable-length buffer pool to maintain them. See and attend session C3 at 3:30pm today to learn more!.

RT @PopCatalin: @davidfowl Damn, . Garnet sitting on top of performance benchmarks when compared to Redis, KeyDb and Dragonfly . If this….

RT @davidfowl: The changes to redis licensing might make an interesting alternative.

Hi everyone, I'm excited to announce that the Garnet research project is now open source! Garnet is our new cache-store that offers very high performance and adopts the popular RESP wire protocol of Redis. Check it out at and see our blog post quoted here.

The Data Systems group at Microsoft Research (Redmond) is looking to hire full-time researchers. We are interested in a variety of topics including storage and indexing, resource management, modern hardware, etc. Check out our job posting and apply here:

RT @reubenbond: Economics eventually prevails over Resume-Driven Development.

The Data Systems group at MSR Redmond is now looking for in-person summer 2023 interns in systems and exploration areas! Interested PhD students (US and international) can apply at links below. Database systems: Data exploration:

RT @manathan1984: Check out our report on Reproducibility and Artifacts Availability in SIGMOD and VLDB (.

RT @andy_pavlo: Martin was a great database researcher and kind person. This is a big loss. He was knighted by the Dutch govt last year for….

RT @KonsKallas: The camera-ready version of our paper on a fast 🐎 and reliable 🪵 serverless execution engine for Durable Functions is out n….

In 2018, we introduced an epoch framework in FASTER to make it easier to write thread-scalable systems. At DaMoN '22 we present EPVS, an epoch-based primitive to create "almost latch free" data structures:.cc @tianyu_li_ @samrmadden.

RT @2022Sigmod: Exciting CFP for the Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award!! Any dissertation awarded between Sep 20 and August 21 qualifies….

We are looking for (virtual) summer interns at Microsoft Research, in the areas of caching, KV store/DB, transaction processing, distribution, sharding, resiliency, storage. If you are (or know) a relevant PhD student located in the US/Canada, reach out via DM or email. Thanks!.

Here is the job posting for a researcher position (full time) in the Data Systems group at Microsoft Research, Redmond. Eligible candidates, please see details and apply at:

PhD students looking for a virtual internship this summer at the MSR Data Systems group, please apply at (for data systems) and (for data exploration).

2/2 Crystal uses local storage at compute nodes to accelerate queries and increase the value per cached byte. We show Crystal accelerating queries over Parquet, on unmodified Spark & Greenplum, with small data sources. Joint work w @MSFTResearch intern @DominikDurner & Yinan Li.

1/2 Caching for analytics has resurfaced as a challenge in today's disaggregated cloud analytics database architecture. At @VLDB2021, we present research on Crystal - a new DB-agnostic semantic caching middleware. Paper: Video: