I am a Ph.D. graduate at Brown University advised by Professor Stan Zdonik. My most recent research is focused on developing an automated design tool in the context of clustered column store databases. More generally, I am interested in a number of issues related to the provisioning problem when dealing with large amounts of data. I have worked on the problem of physical design in row store databases, exploiting correlations in database design and indexing and large scale benchmarks. Earlier I have also worked on problems of high availability and scheduling in streaming databases.
Publications
MapReduce and Parallel DBMSs: Friends or Foes?
Michael Stonebraker, Daniel Abadi, David. J. DeWitt, Samuel Madden, Erik Paulson, Andrew Pavlo, and Alexander Rasin
Communications of the ACM, vol. 53, iss. 1, January 2010.
A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis
Andrew Pavlo, Erik Paulson, Alexander Rasin, Daniel J. Abadi, David J. DeWitt, Samuel Madden, and Michael Stonebraker
SIGMOD 2009.
Correlation Maps: A Compressed Access Method for Soft Functional Dependencies.
Hideaki Kimura, George Huo, Alexander Rasin, Samuel Madden, Stan Zdonik
VLDB 2009.
HadoopDB: An Architectural Hybrid of MapReduce and DBMS Technologies for Analytical Workloads.
Azza Abouzeid, Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski, Daniel J. Abadi, Alexander Rasin, Avi Silberschatz
VLDB 2009.
H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System.
Robert Kallman, Hideaki Kimura, Jonathan Natkins, Andrew Pavlo, Alexander Rasin, Stanley Zdonik, Evan P.C. Jones, Yang Zhang, Samuel Madden, Michael Stonebraker, John Hugg, Daniel J. Abadi.
VLDB 2008.
Distributed Operation in the Borealis Stream Processing Engine (Demonstration, Best Demo Award).
Y. Ahmad, U. Cetintemel, B. Berg, M. Humphrey, J.-H. Hwang, O. Papaemmanouil, A. Rasin, N. Tatbul, Y. Xing, and S. Zdonik
SIGMOD 2005.
High-Availability Algorithms for Distributed Stream Processing.
Jeong-Hyon Hwang, Magdalena Balazinska, Alexander Rasin, Ugur Cetintemel, Michael Stonebraker, and Stan Zdonik,
ICDE 2005.
The Design of the Borealis Stream Processing Engine.
D. Abadi, Y. Ahmad, M. Balazinska, U. Cetintemel, M. Cherniack, J.-H. Hwang, W. Lindner, A. Maskey, A. Rasin, E. Ryvkina, N. Tatbul, Y. Xing, S. Zdonik
CIDR 2005.
C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS.
Michael Stonebraker, Daniel J. Abadi, Adam Batkin, Xuedong Chen, Mitch Cherniack, Miguel Ferreira, Edmond Lau, Amerson Lin, Samuel Madden, Elizabeth J. O'Neil, Patrick E. O'Neil, Alex Rasin, Nga Tran, Stanley B. Zdonik,
VLDB 2005.
Aurora: A Data Stream Management System.
Daniel J. Abadi, Donald Carney, Ugur Cetintemel, Mitch Cherniack, Christian Convey, C. Erwin, Eduardo F. Galvez, M. Hatoun, Anurag Maskey, Alex Rasin, A. Singer, Michael Stonebraker, Nesime Tatbul, Ying Xing, R. Yan, Stanley B. Zdonik
SIGMOD 2003.
Operator Scheduling in a Data Stream Manager.
Donald Carney, Ugur Cetintemel, Alex Rasin, Stanley B. Zdonik, Mitch Cherniack, Michael Stonebraker,
VLDB 2003.
Alexander Rasin
