Balancing Vectorized Query Execution with Bandwidth-Optimized Storage
Marcin Żukowski · Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) · 2009
I had two supervisors at CWI. Martin Kersten always kept an eye on what this new student from Poland was doing, and teased me with hard problems and tricky questions when appropriate.Still, it was Peter Boncz who had to live with all my questions, ideas, problems and complaints almost every day.The discussions we had were one of the most thought-stimulating moments of my life, even when we disagreed on something.Many of the ideas described in this book were conceived in these meetings.I think Peter also enjoyed working together, as he wanted to continue our cooperation when it was time for me to leave CWI.Thanks to his persistence and energy, together we started a spin-off company, where we can now keep discussing (and yes, Martin still keeps an eye on us).This thesis would not exist as it is without two other people: Sándor Héman and Niels Nes.We created a small team, which worked hard on many cool ideas and produced some nice papers.We also missed some deadlines after sleepless nights, but even that was an interesting experience.I was very lucky to convince truly great researchers to take a closer look at this thesis.I am honored to thank Goetz Graefe, Anastasia Ailamaki, Arnold Smeulders and Chris Jesshope for their remarks on the content and agreeing to become the members of my PhD committee.The "insane" database group at CWI was a great place to work (and live).I made good friends, and learned a lot from very smart people.With Roberto Cornacchia it was great fun to work with, but also to go out to "the windmill" (yes, the order should be different here, but this is a