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Gustavo Alonso

Gustavo Alonso

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Computer Science
Switzerland
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
84
Citations
26039
World Ranking
860
National Ranking
21

Gustavo Alonso 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 Gustavo Alonso sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 426 publications — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Gustavo Alonso 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 Gustavo Alonso sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 84 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% 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

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Gustavo Alonso is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and specializes in computer science. Their research spans a variety of subfields, including computer networks and communications, information systems, computer vision and pattern recognition, hardware and architecture, and artificial intelligence.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, among which are:

  • Cloud Computing and Resource Management
  • Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
  • Advanced Data Storage Technologies
  • Advanced Database Systems and Queries
  • Graph Theory and Algorithms
  • Distributed Systems and Fault Tolerance
  • Data Management and Algorithms

Gustavo Alonso has contributed to numerous publications, with frequent appearances in these venues:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)
  • ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data

Recent published papers include:

  • Demystifying Graph Databases: Analysis and Taxonomy of Data Organization, System Designs, and Graph Queries, 2023, ACM Computing Surveys
  • Shuhai: A Tool for Benchmarking High Bandwidth Memory on FPGAs, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Tensors, 2021, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • SKT, 2021, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • Hardware acceleration of compression and encryption in SAP HANA, 2022, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

Coauthor collaborations with Gustavo Alonso are frequent, including:

  • Ingo Müller
  • Dimitrios Koutsoukos
  • Wenqi Jiang
  • Torsten Hoefler
  • Ana Klimovic

Best Publications

  • Web Services: Concepts, Architectures and Applications

    Gustavo Alonso;Fabio Casati;Harumi Kuno;Vijay Machiraju

  • Understanding replication in databases and distributed systems

    M. Wiesmann;F. Pedone;A. Schiper;B. Kemme

  • Exception handling in workflow management systems

    C. Hagen;G. Alonso

  • Advanced transaction models in workflow contexts

    G. Alonso;D. Agrawal;A. El Abbadi;M. Kamath

  • Don't Be Lazy, Be Consistent: Postgres-R, A New Way to Implement Database Replication

    Bettina Kemme;Gustavo Alonso

  • Calling the cloud: enabling mobile phones as interfaces to cloud applications

    Ioana Giurgiu;Oriana Riva;Dejan Juric;Ivan Krivulev

  • Dynamic weaving for aspect-oriented programming

    Andrei Popovici;Thomas Gross;Gustavo Alonso

  • Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

    Gustavo Alonso;Juliana Freire;Ahmet Saçan;Nesime Tatbul

  • A new approach to developing and implementing eager database replication protocols

    Bettina Kemme;Gustavo Alonso

  • Main-memory hash joins on multi-core CPUs: Tuning to the underlying hardware

    C. Balkesen;J. Teubner;G. Alonso;M. T. Ozsu

  • Declarative support for sensor data cleaning

    Shawn R. Jeffery;Gustavo Alonso;Michael J. Franklin;Wei Hong

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

    Tim Kraska;Martin Hentschel;Gustavo Alonso;Donald Kossmann

  • R-OSGi: distributed applications through software modularization

    Jan S. Rellermeyer;Gustavo Alonso;Timothy Roscoe

  • Database replication techniques: a three parameter classification

    M. Wiesmann;F. Pedone;A. Schiper;B. Kemme

  • Ganymed: scalable replication for transactional web applications

    Christian Plattner;Gustavo Alonso

  • Multi-core, main-memory joins: sort vs. hash revisited

    Cagri Balkesen;Gustavo Alonso;Jens Teubner;M. Tamer Özsu

  • A Pipelined Framework for Online Cleaning of Sensor Data Streams

    S.R. Jeffery;G. Alonso;M.J. Franklin;Wei Hong

  • Exotica/FMQM: A Persistent Message-Based Architecture for Distributed Workflow Management

    G. Alonso;C. Mohan;R. Günthör;D. Agrawal

  • Just-in-time aspects: efficient dynamic weaving for Java

    Andrei Popovici;Gustavo Alonso;Thomas Gross

  • Functionality and Limitations of Current Workflow Management Systems.

    Gustavo Alonso;Divyakant Agrawal;Amr El Abbadi;C. Mohan

  • Web Services

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  • Proceedings of the 32nd international conference on Very large data bases

    Umeshwar Dayal;Khu-Yong Whang;David Lomet;Gustavo Alonso

  • Extending DBMSs with satellite databases

    Christian Plattner;Gustavo Alonso;M. Tamer Özsu

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald Kossmann
Donald Kossmann Microsoft (United States)
Cesare Pautasso
Cesare Pautasso Universita della Svizzera Italiana
Jens Teubner
Jens Teubner TU Dortmund University
Divyakant Agrawal
Divyakant Agrawal University of California, Santa Barbara
Bettina Kemme
Bettina Kemme McGill University
Chandrasekaran Mohan
Chandrasekaran Mohan IBM (United States)
Amr El Abbadi
Amr El Abbadi University of California, Santa Barbara
Timothy Roscoe
Timothy Roscoe ETH Zurich

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