From research ideas to systems used in practice.
Research on workload-aware cloud data-warehouse optimization was commercialized through Keebo, whose published system applies learning to performance, resource sizing, and cost decisions with operational safeguards.
SnappyData commercialized ideas introduced by BlinkDB in a unified platform for streaming, transactions, and interactive analytics. TIBCO acquired SnappyData in 2019 and introduced the technology as TIBCO ComputeDB.
BlinkDB and VerdictDB made research on bounded, interactive approximate analytics available through public software, project artifacts, and reproducible system descriptions.
Research from Mozafari’s group produced VATS and CATS, contention-aware scheduling techniques adopted by MariaDB and MySQL. MySQL/InnoDB currently uses CATS; MariaDB made VATS its default scheduler in version 10.2.3 and later removed it.
DBSeer made workload analysis, resource/performance prediction, and database diagnosis available as public software for MySQL and PostgreSQL.