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 01, 2026

Paper

A paper on abstractions for composable transactions has been accepted at "CDMS workshop with VLDB 2026"

June 15, 2026

Tutorial

P. Almeida, N. Faria, and J. Pereira are presenting a tutorial on CRDTs in databases at "VLDB 2026."

June 01, 2026

Community

Nuno Faria is now a member of the "Apache DataFusion Committee".

• Talk by Nuno Faria at PostgreSQL Conference Europe (2025)

• 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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