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Netherlands
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
50
Citations
11389
World Ranking
5566
National Ranking
85

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2016 - ACM Fellow For the design and implementation of column-store and main-memory database systems.

Overview

Martin L. Kersten is affiliated with the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on computer science with specific contributions in subfields such as computer networks and communications, artificial intelligence, and signal processing.

The main topics of Kersten's work include:

  • Advanced Database Systems and Queries
  • Semantic Web and Ontologies
  • Data Management and Algorithms

Kersten's recent publication is titled Bridging the Chasm between Science and Reality, published in 2021 in the venue Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). This paper has received citations, reflecting its engagement within the academic community.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Kersten are:

  • Ying Zhang
  • Niels Nes
  • Panagiotis Koutsourakis

Kersten's recognized achievements include the award of ACM Fellow in 2016 for contributions to the design and implementation of column-store and main-memory database systems.

Publications have appeared primarily in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), denoting a venue where Kersten has concentrated dissemination efforts.

Best Publications

  • XMark: a benchmark for XML data management

    Albrecht Schmidt;Florian Waas;Martin Kersten;Michael J. Carey

  • Efficient relational storage and retrieval of XML documents

    Albrecht Schmidt;Martin Kersten;Menzo Windhouwer;Florian Waas

  • A graph-oriented model for articulation of ontology interdependencies

    Prasenjit Mitra;Gio Wiederhold;Martin L. Kersten

  • Database Architecture Optimized for the New Bottleneck: Memory Access

    Peter A. Boncz;Stefan Manegold;Martin L. Kersten

  • MonetDB: Two Decades of Research in Column-oriented Database Architectures

    Stratos Idreos;Fabian Groffen;Niels Nes;Stefan Manegold

  • Breaking the memory wall in MonetDB

    Peter A. Boncz;Martin L. Kersten;Stefan Manegold

  • The XML benchmark project

    A. R. Schmidt;Florian Waas;Martin L. Kersten;D. Florescu

  • An architecture for recycling intermediates in a column-store

    Milena G. Ivanova;Martin L. Kersten;Niels J. Nes;Romulo A.P. Gonçalves

  • Generic database cost models for hierarchical memory systems

    Stefan Manegold;Peter Boncz;Martin L. Kersten

  • Column-store support for RDF data management: not all swans are white

    Lefteris Sidirourgos;Romulo Goncalves;Martin Kersten;Niels Nes

  • Optimizing main-memory join on modern hardware

    S. Manegold;P. Boncz;M. Kersten

  • Self-organizing tuple reconstruction in column-stores

    Stratos Idreos;Martin L. Kersten;Stefan Manegold

  • The Lowell database research self-assessment

    Serge Abiteboul;Rakesh Agrawal;Phil Bernstein;Mike Carey

  • Optimizing database architecture for the new bottleneck: memory access

    Stefan Manegold;Peter A. Boncz;Martin L. Kersten

  • MIL primitives for querying a fragmented world

    Peter A. Boncz;Martin L. Kersten

  • Database architecture evolution: mammals flourished long before dinosaurs became extinct

    Stefan Manegold;Martin L. Kersten;Peter Boncz

  • KLEE: A Framework for Distributed Top-k Query Algorithms

    Sebastian Michel;Peter Triantafillou;Gerhard Weikum;Klemens Böhm

  • Querying XML documents made easy: nearest concept queries

    A. Schmidt;M. Kersten;M. Windhouwer

  • PRISMA/DB: a parallel, main memory relational DBMS

    P.M.G. Apers;C.A. van den Berg;J. Flokstra;P.W.P.J. Grefen

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

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

  • A Benchmark for XML Data Management

    A.R. Schmidt;F. Waas;M.L. Kersten;M.J. Carey

  • A Graph-Oriented Model for Articulation of Ontology

    P. Mitra;G. Wiederhold;M.L. Kersten

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Manegold
Stefan Manegold Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
Peter Boncz
Peter Boncz Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
Stratos Idreos
Stratos Idreos Harvard University
Gerhard Weikum
Gerhard Weikum Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Michael J. Carey
Michael J. Carey University of California, Irvine
Laura M. Haas
Laura M. Haas University of Massachusetts Amherst
Ioana Manolescu
Ioana Manolescu French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA
Umeshwar Dayal
Umeshwar Dayal Hitachi (Japan)
Guy M. Lohman
Guy M. Lohman IBM (United States)
Beng Chin Ooi
Beng Chin Ooi National University of Singapore

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