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Donald Kossmann publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Donald Kossmann sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 265 publications — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Donald Kossmann D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Donald Kossmann sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 66 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - ACM Fellow For advances in XML data management and distributed information systems.

Overview

Donald Kossmann is affiliated with Microsoft in the United States. Their research spans several fields within computer science, with a primary focus on topics related to database systems and distributed computing.

The main fields of study for Kossmann include:

  • Computer Science

Within this domain, their subfields of study cover more specialized areas such as:

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Information Systems
  • Information Systems and Management
  • Hardware and Architecture

The scientist's research topics are diverse but concentrate on these key areas:

  • Advanced Database Systems and Queries
  • Cloud Computing and Resource Management
  • Distributed systems and fault tolerance
  • Scientific Computing and Data Management
  • Advanced Data Storage Technologies
  • Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques

Donald Kossmann has contributed to multiple recent publications. Some notable works include:

  • "The Seattle Report on Database Research," 2020, published in ACM SIGMOD Record
  • "The Seattle report on database research," 2022, published in Communications of the ACM
  • "Concurrent Prefix Recovery," 2020, published in ACM SIGMOD Record
  • "The Cambridge Report on Database Research," 2025, published on arXiv (Cornell University)

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Kossmann are:

  • Daniel J. Abadi
  • Magdalena Bałazińska
  • Philip A. Bernstein
  • Peter Boncz
  • Surajit Chaudhuri

Publication venues where Kossmann has appeared repeatedly include:

  • ACM SIGMOD Record
  • Communications of the ACM
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

In addition to research articles, Donald Kossmann has published books through vdf Hochschulverlag AG an der ETH Zürich eBooks, including:

  • "The Magic of Computer Science," 2021
  • "Wunder Informatik," 2020

The scientist has been recognized with awards such as the ACM Fellow in 2010, citing advances in XML data management and distributed information systems.

Best Publications

  • The Skyline operator

    S. Borzsony;D. Kossmann;K. Stocker

  • Shooting stars in the sky: an online algorithm for skyline queries

    Donald Kossmann;Frank Ramsak;Steffen Rost

  • The state of the art in distributed query processing

    Donald Kossmann

  • CrowdDB: answering queries with crowdsourcing

    Michael J. Franklin;Donald Kossmann;Tim Kraska;Sukriti Ramesh

  • Optimizing Queries Across Diverse Data Sources

    Laura M. Haas;Donald Kossmann;Edward L. Wimmers;Jun Yang

  • Answering XML Queries on Heterogeneous Data Sources

    Ioana Manolescu;Daniela Florescu;Donald Kossmann

  • Building a database on S3

    Matthias Brantner;Daniela Florescu;David Graf;Donald Kossmann

  • ALEX: An Updatable Adaptive Learned Index

    Jialin Ding;Umar Farooq Minhas;Jia Yu;Chi Wang

  • On saying “Enough already!” in SQL

    Michael J. Carey;Donald Kossmann

  • Integrating keyword search into XML query processing

    Daniela Florescu;Donald Kossmann;Ioana Manolescu

  • An evaluation of alternative architectures for transaction processing in the cloud

    Donald Kossmann;Tim Kraska;Simon Loesing

  • A Performance Evaluation of Alternative Mapping Schemes for Storing XML Data in a Relational Database

    Daniela Florescu;Donald Kossmann

  • Consistency rationing in the cloud: pay only when it matters

    Tim Kraska;Martin Hentschel;Gustavo Alonso;Donald Kossmann

  • The Claremont report on database research

    Rakesh Agrawal;Anastasia Ailamaki;Philip A. Bernstein;Eric A. Brewer

  • Iterative dynamic programming: a new class of query optimization algorithms

    Donald Kossmann;Konrad Stocker

  • Performance tradeoffs for client-server query processing

    Michael J. Franklin;Björn Thór Jónsson;Donald Kossmann

  • The implementation and performance of compressed databases

    Till Westmann;Donald Kossmann;Sven Helmer;Guido Moerkotte

  • How is the weather tomorrow?: towards a benchmark for the cloud

    Carsten Binnig;Donald Kossmann;Tim Kraska;Simon Loesing

  • The BEA/XQRL streaming XQuery processor

    Daniela Florescu;Chris Hillery;Donald Kossmann;Paul Lucas

  • Orthogonal Security With Cipherbase

    Arvind Arasu;Spyros Blanas;Ken Eguro;Raghav Kaushik

  • Answering XML Queries over Heterogeneous Data Sources.

    Ioana Manolescu;Daniela Florescu;Donald Kossmann

  • Top-k Query Evaluation with Probabilistic Guarantees

    Martin Theobald;Gerhard Weikum;Ralf Schenkel;Mario A. Nascimento

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniela Florescu
Daniela Florescu Oracle (United States)
Gustavo Alonso
Gustavo Alonso ETH Zurich
Alfons Kemper
Alfons Kemper Technical University of Munich
Arvind Arasu
Arvind Arasu Microsoft (United States)
Michael J. Franklin
Michael J. Franklin University of Chicago
Michael J. Carey
Michael J. Carey University of California, Irvine
Ramarathnam Venkatesan
Ramarathnam Venkatesan Microsoft (United States)
Laura M. Haas
Laura M. Haas University of Massachusetts Amherst
M. Tamer Özsu
M. Tamer Özsu University of Waterloo

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