2026 Peter Boncz: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	57	3833	3726	44	41	277	13247

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Computer Science

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3726

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13247

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Netherlands Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Peter Boncz is affiliated with the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in the Netherlands. Their research centers on fields within computer science, with a considerable focus on topics related to database systems, data management, and graph algorithms.

Their notable recent publications include:

Delta lake, 2020, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
The future is big graphs, 2021, Communications of the ACM
The Seattle Report on Database Research, 2020, ACM SIGMOD Record
Teseo and the analysis of structural dynamic graphs, 2021, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
The LDBC Social Network Benchmark, 2022, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

Peter Boncz frequently collaborates with various co-authors. The most frequent co-authors are:

Gábor Szárnyas
Thomas Neumann
Jack Waudby
Alexandru Iosup
Alexandru Uta

The scientist regularly publishes in the following venues:

Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
arXiv (Cornell University)
Communications of the ACM
ACM SIGMOD Record
Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data

Within the domain of computer science, their work spans multiple subfields including:

Computer Networks and Communications
Artificial Intelligence
Information Systems
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Signal Processing

Peter Boncz's main topics of research activity cover:

Advanced Database Systems and Queries
Advanced Data Storage Technologies
Graph Theory and Algorithms
Data Management and Algorithms
Semantic Web and Ontologies
Cloud Computing and Resource Management
Algorithms and Data Compression

Best Publications

MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution

Peter A. Boncz;Marcin Zukowski;Niels Nes

806
Citations
How good are query optimizers, really?

Viktor Leis;Andrey Gubichev;Atanas Mirchev;Peter Boncz

739
Citations
Super-Scalar RAM-CPU Cache Compression

M. Zukowski;S. Heman;N. Nes;P. Boncz

664
Citations
Database Architecture Optimized for the New Bottleneck: Memory Access

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

544
Citations
MonetDB/XQuery: a fast XQuery processor powered by a relational engine

Peter Boncz;Torsten Grust;Maurice van Keulen;Stefan Manegold

419
Citations
Breaking the memory wall in MonetDB

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

409
Citations
Column-oriented database systems

Daniel J. Abadi;Peter A. Boncz;Stavros Harizopoulos

406
Citations
The meaningful use of big data: four perspectives -- four challenges

Christian Bizer;Peter Boncz;Michael L. Brodie;Orri Erling

343
Citations
The LDBC Social Network Benchmark: Interactive Workload

Orri Erling;Alex Averbuch;Josep Larriba-Pey;Hassan Chafi

329
Citations
The Design and Implementation of Modern Column-Oriented Database Systems

Daniel Abadi;Peter Boncz;Stavros Harizopoulos

322
Citations
Morsel-driven parallelism: a NUMA-aware query evaluation framework for the many-core age

Viktor Leis;Peter Boncz;Alfons Kemper;Thomas Neumann

307
Citations
Generic database cost models for hierarchical memory systems

Stefan Manegold;Peter Boncz;Martin L. Kersten

294
Citations
Optimizing main-memory join on modern hardware

S. Manegold;P. Boncz;M. Kersten

268
Citations
Learned Cardinalities: Estimating Correlated Joins with Deep Learning

Andreas Kipf;Thomas Kipf;Bernhard Radke;Viktor Leis

238
Citations
Monet; a next-Generation DBMS Kernel For Query-Intensive Applications

Peter Boncz

233
Citations
Optimizing database architecture for the new bottleneck: memory access

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

222
Citations
MIL primitives for querying a fragmented world

Peter A. Boncz;Martin L. Kersten

211
Citations
Database architecture evolution: mammals flourished long before dinosaurs became extinct

Stefan Manegold;Martin L. Kersten;Peter Boncz

200
Citations
MonetDB/X100 - A DBMS in the CPU cache

Marcin Zukowski;Peter A. Boncz;Niels Nes;Sándor Héman

197
Citations
TPC-H Analyzed: Hidden Messages and Lessons Learned from an Influential Benchmark

Peter Boncz;Thomas Neumann;Orri Erling

172
Citations
Linked stream data processing engines: facts and figures

Danh Le-Phuoc;Minh Dao-Tran;Minh-Duc Pham;Peter Boncz

163
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Manegold Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica

Martin L. Kersten Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica

Thomas Neumann Technical University of Munich

Alfons Kemper Technical University of Munich

Jens Teubner TU Dortmund University

Angela Bonifati Claude Bernard University Lyon 1

Anastasia Ailamaki École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Alexandru Iosup Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Daniel J. Abadi University of Maryland, College Park

Wolfgang Lehner TU Dresden

External Links

Wikipedia of Peter Boncz Personal website of Peter Boncz Google Scholar page

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