Career Profile
I’m a Post-Doc based in Amsterdam and a member of the Database Architecture group at CWI. I’m currently working as COO @ DuckDB Labs.
Scientific Publications & Blogposts
2022
Scrooge McDuck: A DuckDB Extension for Financial Data Analysis (Demo)
Blog [Here]
Persistent Storage of Adaptive Radix Trees in DuckDB.
DuckDB Blog [Here]
2021
DuckDB quacks Arrow: A zero-copy data integration between Apache Arrow and DuckDB.
DuckDB Blog [Here]
DuckDB - The Lord of Enums: The Fellowship of the Categorical and Factors.
DuckDB Blog [Here]
Progressive Indexes
PhD Thesis @ Leiden University/CWI [PDF]
Progressive Mergesort: Merging Batches of Appends into Progressive Indexes
EDBT [PDF] [SOURCE CODE]
Multidimensional Adaptive & Progressive Indexes
ICDE [PDF] [SOURCE CODE]
2020
Progressive Indexes: Indexing for Interactive Data Analysis
VLDB [PDF] [SOURCE CODE]
2019
Dissecting DuckDB : The internals of the “SQLite for Analytics”
SBBD (Tutorial) [PDF] [HANDS-ON]
Relational Queries with a Tensor Processing Unit
SIGMOD (DaMoN) [PDF] [SOURCE CODE]
devUDF: Increasing UDF development efficiency through IDE Integration. It works like a PyCharm!
EDBT [PDF] [SOURCE CODE]
2018
Progressive Indices – Indexing Without Prejudice.
VLDB (Ph.D. Worskhop) [PDF] [SOURCE CODE]
Fair Benchmarking Considered Difficult:Common Pitfalls In Database Performance Testing.
SIGMOD (DbTest) [PDF] [SOURCE CODE]
Deep Integration of Machine Learning Into Column Stores.
EDBT [PDF] [SOURCE CODE]