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

April 01, 2026

Community

Nuno Faria is now a director at the "Graph Data Council."

October 24, 2025

Tutorial

Nuno Faria presented the "Building Tetris in a SQL Query!" tutorial on CTEs on PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2025

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!

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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