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The Final report
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Motivation
It was suggested at the 1st xldb workshop that we should improve collaboration between science and database research communities, in particular, we should try to organize a working group & a mini-workshop with representatives from different sciences and db research community to discuss a common set of database-related requirements and primitives that scientists need from next-generation DBMS with the goals of stimulating database research and eventually producing standardized benchmarks.
Location, date and logistics
The meeting will be held in Asilomar: March 30th - April 1st, 2008.
More information about the logistics is here.
Participants
?? indicates uncertain/unconfirmed
Organizers are in bold
Database research:
- Mike Stonebraker (MIT)
- David DeWitt (Univ Wisconsin)
- Guy Lohman (IBM)
- Chris Olston (Yahoo!)
- Mike Carey (BEA)
- Jignesh Patel (Univ of Michigan)
- Tom Barclay (Microsoft)
Science:
- astro:
- Robert Lupton (Princeton)
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- Kirk Borne (GMU)
- Alex Szalay (JHU)
- hep:
- Dirk Duellmann (CERN)
- Gregory Dubois-Felsmann (SLAC)
- geoscience:
- James Frew (UCSC)
- bio:
- Gordon Anderson (PNL)
- fusion:
- Tim Frazier (LLNL)
- others:
- Oliver Ratzesberger (EBay)
- Kian-Tat Lim (SLAC)
- Jacek Becla (SLAC)
Tentative agenda
(names in brackets indicate session leader, responsible for getting the discussing going, keeping time, etc)
| Sunday March 30 | |
|---|---|
| 6:00 pm | dinner |
| 7:30 pm | reception, informal discussion |
| Monday March 31 | |
| 9:00 - 12:00 | Science Requirements (Jacek Becla) |
| 9:00 - 9:10 | intro |
| 9:10 - 9:40 | Particle Physics (Jacek Becla) |
| 9:40 - 10:10 | Astronomy (K-T Lim) |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Bio (Gordon Anderson) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Geoscience (James Frew) |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Fusion (Tim Frazier) |
| 12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 - 2:30 | Data model(s): tables, arrays, map/reduce etc (Mike Carey) |
| 2:30 - 3:00 | Coffee Break |
| 3:00 - 4:30 | Query language(s), extensions (Guy Lohman) |
| 4:30 - 5:30 | Uncertainty (Jignesh Patel) |
| 6:00 - 7:30 | Dinner |
| 7:30 - 9:30 | Reception and "open mike" (Oliver Ratzesberger) 12 talks of 10 minutes each on "anything": war stories, interesting systems, ... |
| Tuesday April 1 | |
| 9:00 - 10:30 | Lineage, incl. Trio model, object-based model (Chris Olston) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | other things: Real time (data collection) constructs, language support (C++, Ruby, Python) (TBD) |
| 12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 - 2:00 | Two straw person proposals constructed in real time: 1) co-ordinated by D. DeWitt with Chris Olston, Guy Lohman, Jacek and others TBD 2) co-ordinated by M. Stonebraker, with Mike Carey, Jignesh Patel, KT and others TBD |
| 2:00 - 3:00 | Shortcomings, next steps, general discussion (Jacek Becla) |
Preparing for the meeting
We expect science representatives to prepare white papers in advance of the mini-workshop based on input and materials from their colleagues describing prioritized features and primitives her/his community would like to see in a next-generation DBMS. These white papers will serve as the basis for the workshop discussions.
To kick off this process, we have prepared a draft list of Common Requirements.