{"621436":{"#nid":"621436","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Joy Arulraj Wins Dissertation Award for Pioneering Database Systems Work","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Computer Science Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~jarulraj\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJoy Arulraj\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E has won the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sigmod.org\/sigmod-awards\/sigmod-awards\u0022\u003EAssociation for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Management Of Data\u003C\/a\u003E (ACM SIGMOD)\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sigmod.org\/sigmod-awards\/sigmod-jim-gray-doctoral-dissertation-award\/\u0022\u003EJim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award\u003C\/a\u003E for his work, \u003Cem\u003EThe Design and Implementation of Non-Volatile Memory Database Management Systems\u003C\/em\u003E. This award is given to the best database systems dissertation from the previous year.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EArulraj\u0026rsquo;s dissertation made significant breakthroughs in how database systems use memory. Historically, database system performance has been limited by the trade-offs between volatile memory and non-volatile storage devices, but non-volatile memory has revolutionized its potential.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;The arrival of new non-volatile memory devices invalidates the key design assumptions in database systems,\u0026rdquo; Arulraj said. \u0026ldquo;Non-volatile memory offers an intriguing blend of traditional memory and storage technologies. It supports fast reads and writes similar to volatile memory, but all writes are persistent like a disk\u0026rdquo;.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EArulraj\u0026rsquo;s dissertation explored how the core components of a database system must be redesigned for non-volatile memory. To put this into practice, Arulraj and a team of students at Carnegie Mellon created \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pelotondb.io\/\u0022\u003EPeloton\u003C\/a\u003E, an experimental database system tailored for non-volatile memory devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;When we started this project in 2013, it was a moonshot,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;We were not sure if non-volatile memory technologies would ever see the light of day, but Intel has finally started shipping non-volatile memory devices in 2019. I am super excited about the impact of non-volatile memory on next-generation database systems.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis work was done in collaboration with Intel Labs as part of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/istc-bigdata.org\/\u0022\u003EIntel Science \u0026amp; Technology Center for Big Data\u003C\/a\u003E. Joy\u0026rsquo;s dissertation was published as a book by Morgan \u0026amp; Claypool in 2019, \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.morganclaypoolpublishers.com\/catalog_Orig\/product_info.php?products_id=1360\u0022\u003ENon-Volatile Memory Database Management Systems\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"School of Computer Science Assistant Professor Joy Arulraj has won the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Management Of Data (ACM SIGMOD)\u2019s Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2019-05-07 15:52:09","changed_gmt":"2019-05-07 15:52:09","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-05-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-05-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"614896":{"id":"614896","type":"image","title":"Joy Arulraj","body":null,"created":"1543863461","gmt_created":"2018-12-03 18:57:41","changed":"1543863461","gmt_changed":"2018-12-03 18:57:41","alt":"Joy Arulraj","file":{"fid":"234143","name":"arulraj copy.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/arulraj%20copy.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/arulraj%20copy.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":642844,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/arulraj%20copy.jpg?itok=TdO4eaCc"}}},"media_ids":["614896"],"groups":[{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"},{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}