Daniel Abadi is the Darnell-Kanal Professor of Computer Science at University of Maryland, College Park.[2] His primary area of research is database systems, with contributions to stream databases, distributed databases, graph databases, and column-store databases.[3] He helped create C-Store, a column-oriented database, and HadoopDB, a hybrid of relational databases and Hadoop. Both database systems were commercialized by companies.
Daniel Abadi | |
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| Education |
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| Occupation | Professor of Computer Science at University of Maryland, College Park[1] |
| Awards | Sloan Fellowship (2011) ACM Fellow (2020) |
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| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Yale University University of Maryland, College Park |
| Thesis | Query Execution in Column-Oriented Database Systems (2008) |
| Doctoral advisor | Samuel Madden |
| Website | www |
Abadi was the first to describe the PACELC theorem in a 2010 blog post. PACELC, a response to the CAP theorem, was proved formally in 2018 in a SIGACT News article.[4]
Education and career
Abadi obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Neuroscience from Brandeis University in 2002. A year later, he graduated from Cambridge University with a master's degree in Computer Speech, Text, and Internet Technology. He then pursued a PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was advised by Samuel Madden.[5] At MIT, Abadi collaborated with several researchers to propose C-Store, a column-oriented database. C-Store was commercialized by Vertica and eventually acquired by Hewlett-Packard.[6] Abadi obtained his PhD degree in 2007, writing a dissertation titled Query Execution in Column-Oriented Database Systems.[7][5]
He became an assistant professor at Yale University in 2007 and subsequently an associate professor in 2012.[7] In 2010, a company named Hadapt commercialized his research on HadoopDB, a hybrid of relational databases and Hadoop.[6] Hadapt was acquired by Teradata in 2014.[8]
In 2017, he joined University of Maryland, College Park as the Darnell/Kanal Professor in Computer Science.[7]
Awards and recognitions
Abadi's 2008 dissertation Query Execution in Column-Oriented Database Systems received a SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2009. Two PhD students advised by him, Alexander Thomson and Jose Faleiro, also received this award for their dissertations.[9]
He received a NSF CAREER award in 2009 and a Sloan Fellowship in 2011.[10][11]
Abadi received VLDB's best paper award in 2007 for Scalable Semantic Web Data Management Using Vertical Partitioning and test of time award in 2015 and 2019 for C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS and HadoopDB: An Architectural Hybrid of MapReduce and DBMS Technologies for Analytical Workloads, respectively.[12][13]
He was selected as an ACM Fellow in 2020 "for contributions to stream databases, distributed databases, graph databases, and column-store databases".[3]
References
External links
- Daniel Abadi publications indexed by Google Scholar