My research interests concentrate on influences of new technology on DBMS architectures
- DBMS Design
- OLTP and OLAP Databases
- Multi-Version Handling
- I/O characteristics of the I/O subsystem
- Buffermanagement, Transaction Processing
- Concurrency Control
- Storage Class Memory
- Flash Memory
Awards, Certificates

Seville, Spain




Research Projects


Conferences - Tutorials - Workshops - Events - Meetings

Tutorial: DBMS on Modern Storage Hardware
COEX Convention Center in Gangnam, Seoul, Korea - April 13-16, 2015

NoFTL for Real: Databases on Real Native Flash Storage
Brussels, Belgium - March 23-27, 2015

SIAS-V in Action: Snapshot Isolation Append Storage - Vectors on Flash
Athens, Greece - March 24-28, 2014

Read Optimisations for Append Storage on Flash
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech, Barcelona, Spain

NoFTL: Database Systems on FTL-less Flash Storage
Riva del Garda, Trento, August 26th - 30th

FBARC: I/O Asymmetry-Aware Buffer Replacement Strategy
Riva del Garda, Trento, August 26th - In conjunction with VLDB 2013

Append Storage in Multi-Version Databases on Flash
University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Advances in Flashing the Database Storage (I. Petrov, R. Gottstein, S. Hardock)
Reutlingen, Germany

Aspects of Append-Based Database Storage Management on Flash Memories
Seville, Spain

Data Intensive Systems on New Storage Technologies
Reutlingen, Germany

Workshop im Rahmen der 42. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI)
Data-Intensive Systems on Evolving Memory Hierarchies
Braunschweig, Germany

SI-CV: Snapshot Isolation With Co-Located Versions
Seattle, Washington USA

Using Flash SSDs as Primary Database Storage
Paderborn, Germany
Publications - Research
SIAS-V in Action: Snapshot Isolation Append Storage - Vectors on Flash Robert Gottstein, Thorsten Peter, Ilia Petrov, Alejandro Buchmann 17th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2014 [BibTeX] |
Read Optimisations for Append Storage on Flash Robert Gottstein, Ilia Petrov, Alejandro Buchmann 17th International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium, Barcelona, Spain, ACM, 2013 [BibTeX] |
Append Storage in Multi-Version Databases on Flash Robert Gottstein, Ilia Petrov, Alejandro Buchmann 29th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 2013, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, Springer-Verlag, 2013 [BibTeX] |
Aspects of Append-Based Database Storage Management on Flash Memories Robert Gottstein, Ilia Petrov, Alejandro Buchmann DBKDA 2013, The Fifth International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications, 2013 Best Paper Award [BibTeX] |
FBARC: I/O Asymmetry Aware Buffer Replacement Strategy Paul Dubs, Ilia Petrov, Robert Gottstein, Alejandro Buchmann Fourth International Workshop on Accelerating Data Management Systems Using Modern Processor and Storage Architectures (ADMS), Riva del Garda, Italy, 2013 [BibTeX] |
Multi-Version Databases on Flash: Append Storage and Access Paths Robert Gottstein, Ilia Petrov, Alejandro Buchmann International Journal On Advances in Software, Vol. 6, No. 3&4, 2013 [PDF] [BibTeX] |
NoFTL: Database Systems on FTL-less Flash Storage Sergey Hardock, Ilia Petrov, Robert Gottstein, Alejandro Buchmann 39th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), Riva del Garda, Italy, 2013 [BibTeX] |
Data Intensive Systems on new Storage Technologies Robert Gottstein Invited Talk, Data Management Lab (Prof. Ilia Petrov), University Reutlingen , December 13th 2012 [BibTeX] |
Data-Intensive Systems on Evolving Memory Hierarchies Ilia Petrov, Daniel Bausch, Robert Gottstein, Alejandro Buchmann Proceedings of Workshop Entwicklung energiebewusster Software (EEbS 2012), 42. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI), 2012 [BibTeX] |
SI-CV: Snapshot Isolation with Co-located Versions Robert Gottstein, Ilia Petrov, Alejandro Buchmann In Raghunath Nambiar, Meikel Poess: Topics in Performance Evaluation, Measurement and Characterization, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7144, ISBN 978-3-642-32626-4, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2012 10.1007/978-3-642-32627-1_9 [BibTeX] |
Page Size Selection for OLTP Databases on SSD RAID Storage Ilia Petrov, Robert Gottstein, Todor Ivanov, Daniel Bausch, Alejandro Buchmann Journal of Information and Data Management, Vol. 2, No. 1, Brazilian Computer Society Special Interest Group on Databases, 2011 [Journal] [PDF] [BibTeX] |
Verfeinerung der Snapshot Isolation Technologien bezüglich Solid State Disks (Master's Thesis) Robert Gottstein. Technische Universität Darmstadt, August 2010 [BibTeX] |
Technical Program Committee Membership

April 20 - 24, 2014 - Chamonix, France
Teaching
- Database Systems II, Technische Universität-Darmstadt, Winter Term 2014.
- Database Systems II, Technische Universität-Darmstadt, Winter Term 2013.
- Database Systems II, Technische Universität-Darmstadt, Winter Term 2012.
- Database Systems II, Technische Universität-Darmstadt, Winter Term 2011.
- Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing, Technische Universität-Darmstadt, Summer Term 2011.
- Database Systems II, Technische Universität-Darmstadt, Winter Term 2010.
Background and Degrees
- 2010 - 2016: Dr.-Ing. in Computer Science Technische Universität Darmstadt
- 2007 - 2010: Master of Science in Computer Science Technische Universität Darmstadt
- 2004 - 2007: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Technische Universität Darmstadt