Stratos Idreos Speaks Out on Database Craking

Abstract

Welcome to ACM SIGMOD Record’s series of interviews with distinguished members of the database community. I’m Marianne Winslett, and today we are in Phoenix, site of the 2012 SIGMOD and PODS conference. I have here with me Stratos Idreos, who is the 2011 recipient of the SIGMOD Jim Gray Dissertation Award for his thesis entitled Database Cracking: Towards Auto-tuning Database Kernels. Stratos's advisors were Stefan Manegold and Martin Kersten, and his PhD is from the University of Amsterdam. Stratos is currently a tenure-track researcher at the Dutch National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI). So, Stratos, welcome!