University Guest Lectures

Database Research World Introduction (Material Written in Japanese)

This class provides an introduction to the top-level database research world. Three important research papers from VLDB are explained from the following three aspects.

(1) Database Performance
(2) Database Reliability
(3) Database Design

The topics include column store, data stream processing, schema matching, and …

Speeding to Cloud with IBM Cloud Paks

IBM Cloud™ Paks are enterprise-ready, containerized software solutions that give clients an open, faster and more secure way to move core business applications to any cloud. Each IBM Cloud Pak™ includes containerized IBM middleware and common software services for development …

Increase the Impact of your Data Scientists !

Data Scientists today make use of multiple Open Source technologies to leverage diverse data sources for business benefits. However, the collaboration with other Professionals (Data Engineers, Developers, Project Leaders, Analysts Architects) and their colleagues in the Data Science Team, does …

Big Data Analytics with Spark

I will explain the challenges of current Big Data engines ( in particular Apache Spark ) integration with object stores, what are the issues and their origin. I will discuss what can be done to make this integration more efficient …

Compression and deduplication in Storage Systems

With the growing amount of data being used and stored, storage is challenged to keep up with the capacity demands. Modern storage systems have hence adopted various data reduction techniques, mainly the use of loss-less compression and deduplication techniques. In …

Efficient SQL Analytics on Big Data in Object Storage

Big datasets such as IoT device and server logs are increasingly stored in object storage to achieve low cost and endless capacity. This talk will discuss techniques for efficient SQL analytics of these datasets directly on object storage using Apache …