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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - ACM Software System Award For Gamma, the first embodiment of a parallel, "shared nothing" database system running on a cluster of commodity computers, using data partitioning and innovative parallel query execution strategies.
  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1998 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For the theory and construction of database systems.
  • 1995 - ACM Fellow For fundamental contributions to the areas of parallel database systems, database system benchmarking, and object-oriented database systems, and for outstanding service as an educator and a technical leader.

Overview

David J. DeWitt is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research spans primarily the field of Computer Science with a focus on specialized subfields including Computer Networks and Communications and Information Systems.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Cloud Computing and Resource Management
  • Advanced Data Storage Technologies
  • Distributed Systems and Fault Tolerance
  • IoT and Edge/Fog Computing

Recent publications by David J. DeWitt include:

  • "Cackle: Analytical Workload Cost and Performance Stability With Elastic Pools," 2023, Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data
  • "DBOS: A Proposal for a Data-Centric Operating System," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Table of Contents," 2020, Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery
  • "The Cambridge Report on Database Research," 2025, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Michael Cafarella
  • Tim Kraska
  • Michael Stonebraker
  • Matei Zaharia
  • Vijay Gadepally

The most frequent venues for publication are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data
  • Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery

David J. DeWitt has received several awards recognizing different aspects of their contributions, including:

  • ACM Software System Award in 2008 for work on Gamma, a parallel "shared nothing" database system which utilized data partitioning and parallel query execution strategies
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007
  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1998 for contributions to database system theory and construction
  • ACM Fellow in 1995 for foundational work in parallel database systems, benchmarking, object-oriented database systems, and service as an educator and technical leader

Best Publications

  • Parallel database systems: the future of high performance database systems

    David DeWitt;Jim Gray

  • The Object-Oriented Database System Manifesto.

    Malcolm P. Atkinson;François Bancilhon;David J. DeWitt;Klaus R. Dittrich

  • NiagaraCQ: a scalable continuous query system for Internet databases

    Jianjun Chen;David J. DeWitt;Feng Tian;Yuan Wang

  • Incognito: efficient full-domain K-anonymity

    Kristen LeFevre;David J. DeWitt;Raghu Ramakrishnan

  • Relational Databases for Querying XML Documents: Limitations and Opportunities

    Jayavel Shanmugasundaram;Kristin Tufte;Chun Zhang;Gang He

  • Mondrian Multidimensional K-Anonymity

    K. LeFevre;D.J. DeWitt;R. Ramakrishnan

  • A comparison of approaches to large-scale data analysis

    Andrew Pavlo;Erik Paulson;Alexander Rasin;Daniel J. Abadi

  • On supporting containment queries in relational database management systems

    Chun Zhang;Jeffrey Naughton;David DeWitt;Qiong Luo

  • Implementation techniques for main memory database systems

    David J DeWitt;Randy H Katz;Frank Olken;Leonard D Shapiro

  • The Gamma database machine project

    D.J. DeWitt;S. Ghandeharizadeh;D.A. Schneider;A. Bricker

  • The 007 Benchmark

    Michael J. Carey;David J. DeWitt;Jeffrey F. Naughton

  • Scientific data management in the coming decade

    Jim Gray;David T. Liu;Maria Nieto-Santisteban;Alex Szalay

  • DBMSs on a Modern Processor: Where Does Time Go?

    Anastassia Ailamaki;David J. DeWitt;Mark D. Hill;David A. Wood

  • MapReduce and parallel DBMSs: friends or foes?

    Michael Stonebraker;Daniel Abadi;David J. DeWitt;Sam Madden

  • The object-oriented database system manifesto

    Malcolm Atkinson;David Dewitt;David Maier;Francois Bancilhon

  • Shoring up persistent applications

    Michael J. Carey;David J. DeWitt;Michael J. Franklin;Nancy E. Hall

  • X-Diff: an effective change detection algorithm for XML documents

    Y. Wang;D.J. DeWitt;J.-Y. Cai

  • Benchmarking Database Systems A Systematic Approach

    Dina Bitton;David J. DeWitt;Carolyn Turbyfill

  • Partition based spatial-merge join

    Jignesh M. Patel;David J. DeWitt

  • A performance evaluation of four parallel join algorithms in a shared-nothing multiprocessor environment

    Donovan A. Schneider;David J. DeWitt

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey F. Naughton
Jeffrey F. Naughton University of Wisconsin–Madison
Michael J. Carey
Michael J. Carey University of California, Irvine
David Maier
David Maier Portland State University
Jignesh M. Patel
Jignesh M. Patel Carnegie Mellon University
Jim Gray
Jim Gray Microsoft (United States)
Michael J. Franklin
Michael J. Franklin University of Chicago
Raghu Ramakrishnan
Raghu Ramakrishnan Microsoft (United States)
Goetz Graefe
Goetz Graefe Google (United States)

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