Career Profile

Building future database engines for increasingly heterogeneous modern hardware with increasing performance diversity

Publications

Highlighting the Performance Diversity of Analytical Queries using VOILA
Tim Gubner and Peter Boncz
ADMS @ VLDB, 2021 Paper [PDF], Slides [Link], [PDF]
Optimistically Compressed Hash Tables & Strings in the USSR
Tim Gubner, Viktor Leis and Peter Boncz
SIGMOD Record, 2021 Paper [PDF]
Charting the Design Space of Query Execution using VOILA
Tim Gubner and Peter Boncz
VLDB, 2021 Paper [PDF], Slides [Link], [PDF]
Efficient Query Processing with Optimistically Compressed Hash Tables & Strings in the USSR
Tim Gubner, Viktor Leis and Peter Boncz
ICDE, 2020 Best Paper Award Preprint [PDF], Slides [Link] [PDF]
Synthesizing Database Engines
Tim Gubner and Peter Boncz
DBDBD, 2019 Abstract [PDF]
Fluid Co-processing: GPU Bloom-filters for CPU Joins
Tim Gubner, Diego Tomé, Harald Lang and Peter Boncz
DaMoN @ SIGMOD, 2019 Paper [PDF], Slides [PDF]
Optimizing Group-By And Aggregation using GPU-CPU Co-Processing
Diego Tomé, Tim Gubner, Mark Raasveldt, Eyal Rozenberg and Peter Boncz
ADMS @ VLDB, 2018 Paper [PDF]
Fair Benchmarking Considered Difficult: Common Pitfalls In Database Performance Testing
Mark Raasveldt, Pedro Holanda, Tim Gubner and Hannes Mühleisen
DBTEST @ SIGMOD, 2018 Paper [PDF]
Designing an adaptive VM that combines vectorized and JIT execution on heterogeneous hardware
Tim Gubner
PhD Symposium @ ICDE, 2018 Preprint [PDF], Slides [PDF]
Compact hash tables
Tim Gubner and Peter Boncz
DBDBD, 2017 Abstract [PDF]
Exploring Query Execution Strategies for JIT, Vectorization and SIMD
Tim Gubner and Peter Boncz
ADMS @ VLDB, 2017 Paper [PDF], Slides [PDF]

Projects

Welding TPC-H - Comparison of Weld (language for data analytics) to state-of-the-art query paradigms
WhatIsMySchema - Discovers SQL schema from CSV files
dgen - High-performance CSV data generator

Experiences

Intern

Jul 2020 - Jan 2021
Databricks, Amsterdam

Query Processing team

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2014 - Sep 2016
Actian, Amsterdam

Vectorwise team

Intern / Master's Student

Oct 2013 - Jun 2014
Actian, Amsterdam

Master’s project/thesis: Achieving Many-core Scalability in Vectorwise [PDF]