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Colloquium Coordinator: Demetris Zeinalipour
Colloquium: On the Elasticity of NoSQL Databases over Cloud Management Platforms, Dr. Dimitrios Tsoumakos (University of Ionian and NTUA, Greece), Friday, Mar. 2, 2012, 15:00-16:00 EET.
The Department of Computer Science at the University of Cyprus cordially invites you to the Colloquium entitled:
On the Elasticity of NoSQL Databases over Cloud Management Platforms
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Speaker: Dr. Dimitrios Tsoumakos |
Abstract:
NoSQL databases focus on analytical processing of large scale
datasets, offering increased scalability over commodity hardware. One
of their strongest features is elasticity, which allows for fairly
portioned premiums and high-quality performance. Yet, the process of
adaptive expansion and contraction of resources usually involves a lot
of manual effort during cluster configuration. In this work, we perform
a thorough study of the elasticity feature on some popular NoSQL
databases over an open-source cloud computing platform. We also
present a prototype implementation of a decision making system that
enables automatic elastic operations of any NoSQL engine based on
administrator or application-specified constraints.
Short Bio:
Dr. Tsoumakos is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Informatics of the Ionian University. He is also a senior researcher at the Computing Systems Laboratory of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). He received his Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from NTUA in 1999 and joined the graduate program in Computer Sciences at the University of Maryland in 2000, where he received his M.Sc. (2002) and Ph.D. (2006). His research interests lie in the area of distributed data management, particularly in designing and implementing adaptive, scalable and bandwidth-efficient schemes for data storage, retrieval and dissemination. Applications over Cloud platforms, Peer-to-Peer and Grid systems are considered. He has also been involved in Database research, especially in designing distributed indexing schemes for sharded databases. His most recent projects relate to automatic elasticity provisioning for NoSQL engines and scalable RDF query processing using NoSQL and MapReduce.
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