The FASTER key-value store (aka.ms/FASTER) alpha version library is now open source! This is the original C# version, as well as a C++ port (for Windows and Linux!). Check it out at github.com/Microsoft/FAST…. Meet us at the VLDB 2018 demo in Rio as well!

Four papers from MSR Database Group to appear at #VLDB2014. Cloud-edge computation, progressive analytics, and Siberia! research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/d…

Eight Reasons to Use Microsoft SQL Server 2014's In-Memory Technology via eWeek cic.ms/An9cWL

Donald Kossmann has joined the MSR Database Group. Welcome Donald!

Today CMU Database Group: Mike Zwilling of Microsoft SQL & UW–Madison Computer Sciences Shore fame. Video will be available db.cs.cmu.edu/events/michael…

New pub w/ Ryan Stutsman to appear at #cidr2015: High Performance Transactions in Deuteronomy. bit.ly/1tb7dJE /cc MSR Database Group

Trill moves Bing campaign perfomance data faster, by orders of magnitude blogs.technet.com/b/inside_micro… Badrish Chandramouli

Microsoft's Trill delivers speeds 'orders of magnitude' ahead… dlvr.it/8GStLd #Microsoft #MicrosoftResearch

Microsoft unveils Trill, a .NET library for super-fast streaming analytics wp.me/p5hvhT-6Vkf by Jordan Novet

Doing something interesting in the main-memory space? Come to Hawaii to tell us! imdm.ws/2015/ /cc Andy Pavlo (@andypavlo.bsky.social)

New pub: On the Interplay of Hardware Transactional Memory and Lock-Free Indexing. w/ Ryan Stutsman & Darko Makreshanski bit.ly/1T9xNCq

The high-tech research behind making Halo 5: Guardians multiplayer better for gamers blogs.microsoft.com/next/2015/06/1…

Check out "Trill & Tempe: high speed temporal analytics and visualization in real time" at Microsoft Research #FacSumm bit.ly/1CrgZls

New pub: Schema-Agnostic Indexing with Azure DocumentDB. w/ the Azure DocumentDB engineering team. bit.ly/1MSvC4z

#VLDB15 In-Memory Database Workshop is less than three weeks away. Great program (and shirts): imdm.ws/2015/program/

New pub: fast phantom protection while maintaining a clean separation between concurrency and storage layers: bit.ly/1kwZsAa

The Trill streaming library is now available publicly as a non-commercial evaluation release! Get it via NuGet at nuget.org/packages/Trill/, with samples at github.com/Microsoft/Tril…. More details on Trill at aka.ms/trill.

Persistent multi-word compare-and-swap code is up: github.com/Microsoft/pmwc… x.com/jstnlvndski/st…

Announcing FASTER, our new blazing fast key-value store to appear at SIGMOD/PODS 2018, at microsoft.com/en-us/research…. Joint work with super-intern Guna Prasaad, Donald Kossmann, Justin Levandoski and other amazing folks here at MSR!

Go faster with...FASTER! 160M ops/sec on a single machine. Blazing fast in-memory lock-free hash table indexing the log. Supports in-place updates (avoiding COW) for the hot set. Log spans memory and storage and is used for recovery. bit.ly/2GCnKZa x.com/badrishc/statu…