PhD students looking for a virtual internship this summer at the MSR Data Systems group, please apply at careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/1185… (for data systems) and careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/1185… (for data exploration)

Here is the job posting for a researcher position (full time) in the Data Systems group at Microsoft Research, Redmond. Eligible candidates, please see details and apply at: careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/1214…

We are looking for (virtual) summer interns at Microsoft Research, in the areas of caching, KV store/DB, transaction processing, distribution, sharding, resiliency, storage. If you are (or know) a relevant PhD student located in the US/Canada, reach out via DM or email. Thanks!

Exciting CFP for the Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award!! Any dissertation awarded between Sep 20 and August 21 qualifies. Deadline is March 13th. See all the info here: sigmod.org/sigmod-awards/…

In 2018, we introduced an epoch framework in FASTER to make it easier to write thread-scalable systems. At DaMoN '22 we present EPVS, an epoch-based primitive to create "almost latch free" data structures: badrish.net/papers/epvs-da… aka.ms/epvs cc Tianyu Li Sam Madden

The camera-ready version of our paper on a fast 🐎 and reliable 🪵 serverless execution engine for Durable Functions is out now 💥 Stay tuned for the VLDB talk! This is joint work with Sebastian Burckhardt, Badrish Chandramouli, Chris Gillum, David Justo, Connor McMahon, めーめーちゃん, and Xiangfeng Zhu

Martin was a great database researcher and kind person. This is a big loss. He was knighted by the Dutch govt last year for his DB game. So when he gave a CMU Database Group talk I hired a Dutch person to make a fake royal intro for him. Martin's reaction sums up my relationship with him.

Check out our report on Reproducibility and Artifacts Availability in SIGMOD and VLDB (sigmodrecord.org/publications/s…)

The Data Systems group at MSR Redmond is now looking for in-person summer 2023 interns in systems and exploration areas! Interested PhD students (US and international) can apply at links below. Database systems: careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/1483… Data exploration: careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/1483…

Economics eventually prevails over Resume-Driven Development

The Data Systems group at Microsoft Research (Redmond) is looking to hire full-time researchers. We are interested in a variety of topics including storage and indexing, resource management, modern hardware, etc. Check out our job posting and apply here: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/…

Hi everyone, I'm excited to announce that the Garnet research project is now open source! Garnet is our new cache-store that offers very high performance and adopts the popular RESP wire protocol of Redis. Check it out at github.com/microsoft/garn… and see our blog post quoted here.

The changes to redis licensing might make github.com/microsoft/garn… an interesting alternative.

David Fowler Damn, Garnet sitting on top of performance benchmarks when compared to Redis, KeyDb and Dragonfly ... If this doesn't scream Microsoft is dead serious about performance of .Net Core, I don't know what does. microsoft.com/en-us/research…

At #VLDB2024, check our Bf-Tree, our high-perf B-Tree design optimized for small key-values. It uses a mini-page abstraction to cache reads/writes and a variable-length buffer pool to maintain them. See vldb.org/pvldb/vol17/p3… and attend session C3 at 3:30pm today to learn more!

The Data Systems group at MSR Redmond Microsoft Research is now looking for in-person summer 2025 interns in the data systems and exploration areas! Interested PhD students (US and international) can apply at jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/… -- thank you!

garnet-server, Microsoft's RESP (Redis-alike) server built on the "FASTER" tech is now available as a .NET global tool, making it one line to install it, then just "garnet-server" to run it. Very nice for RESP geeks: nuget.org/packages/garne…

Buckle up because we're crashing into the new year with my annual database retrospective: License change blowbacks! Databricks vs. SnowflakeDB gangwar! @DuckDB shotgun weddings! Buying a college quarterback with database money for your new lover! cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/20…

Came across a research covering Garnet (C# reimplementation of Redis). Would you look at these numbers 👀 diva-portal.org/smash/record.j…