Distributed Database Research

The Distributed Database Research (DBR) team departs from the fundamentals of distributed systems, transactional systems and fault-tolerance to empower scalable, private, sovereign, interoperable and dependable data management systems trageting the edge, cloud and HPC environments. Our research aims to create scalable and dependable middleware systems. Some of our research projects scope and adopt our systems in medium to large scale pilots.

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LATEST NEWS

July 08, 2025

Accepted Paper

The paper "Keigo: Co-designing Log-Structured Merge Key-Value Stores with a Non-Volatile, Concurrency-aware Storage Hierarchy" was accepted at the VLDB'25 conference!

June 25, 2025

Award

Out paper "CRDV: Conflict-free Replicated Data Views" won an Honorable mention at ACM SIGMOD'2025.

June 01, 2025

Manifesto

Our position paper on "The Future of Data Spaces: Enabling Sovereign, Interoperable and Trusted Data Ecosystems" is now available.

• Honorable Mention award at SIGMOD (2025)

• Maria Ramos presenting the LazyFS system at VLDB (2024)

• The team at the IN3+ award ceremony.

• Nuno Faria presenting TiQuE at VLDB (2023)

• Luís Ferreira presenting at VLDB workshops (2023)

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