2025


  • Keigo: Co-designing Log-Structured Merge Key-Value Stores with a Non-Volatile, Concurrency-aware Storage Hierarchy
    Adão, R., Wu, Z., Zhou, C., Balmau, O., Paulo, J., & Macedo, R..
    Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2025.
  • CRDV: Conflict-free Replicated Data Views
    N. Faria, and J. Pereira.
    Proc. ACM Manag. Data (SIGMOD), 2025.
  • Rethinking BFT: Leveraging Diverse Software Components with LLMs
    Imperadeiro, João, Alonso, Ana Nunes, and Pereira, José.
    IEEE/IFIP Intl. Conf. on Dependable Systems and Networks - Disrupt track, 2025.
  • Towards Efficient Client-Side Transactions for Heterogeneous Cloud Data Stores (Short Paper)
    P. A. Sousa, N. Faria, J. Pereira, and A. Alonso.
    20th European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC), 2025.
  • Towards Adaptive Transactional Consistency for Georeplicated Datastores
    R. Braga, J. Pereira, and F. Coelho.
    ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) - Dependable and Adaptive Distributed Systems, 2025.

2024


  • When Amnesia Strikes: Understanding and Reproducing Data Loss Bugs with Fault Injection
    Ramos M, Azevedo J, Kingsbury K, Pereira J, Esteves T, Macedo R & Paulo J.
    Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2024.
  • Databases in Edge and Fog Environments: A Survey
    Ferreira, L. and Coelho, F. and Pereira, J..
    ACM Comput. Surv., 2024.

2023


  • Towards MRAM Byte-Addressable Persistent Memory in Edge Database Systems
    L. Ferreira and F. Coelho and J. Pereira.
    Joint Proceedings of Workshops at the 49th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases ({VLDB} 2023), 2023.
  • TiQuE: Improving the Transactional Performance of Analytical Systems for True Hybrid Workloads
    N. Faria and J. Pereira and A. Alonso and R. Vilaça and Y. Koning and N. Nes.
    Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2023.
  • Loom: A Closed-Box Disaggregated Database System
    F. Coelho and A. Alonso and L. Ferreira and J. Pereira and R. Oliveira.
    12th Latin-American Symposium on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2023.

2022


  • Towards a Cross-domain Semantically Interoperable Ecosystem
    M.Tosic, F. Coelho, B.Nouwt, D.Rua, A.Tomcic, S.Pesic.
    15th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2022.
  • MRVs: Enforcing Numeric Invariants in Parallel Updates to Hotspots with Randomized Splitting
    N. Faria and J. Pereira.
    Proc. ACM Manag. Data (SIGMOD), 2022.
  • Adaptive Database Synchronization for an Online Analytical Cloud-to-Edge Continuum
    Costa D, Pereira J., Vilaça R., Faria N..
    37th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 2022.
  • AIDA-DB: A Data Management Architecture for the Edge and Cloud Continuum
    Faria N., Costa D, Pereira J., Vilaça R., Ferreira L., Coelho F..
    The 1st International Workshop on Secure FunctiON ChAining and FederaTed AI - SONATAI 2022 co-located with IEEE 19th Annual Consumer Communications Networking Conference (CCNC), 2022.

2021


  • Automatic Configuration of Secure Databases
    Ferreira D, Paulo J, Matos M.
    European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC), 2021.
  • Soteria: Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning for Apache Spark
    Brito C, Ferreira P, Portela B, Oliveira R, Paulo J.
    Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2021/966, 2021.
  • Geolocate: A geolocation-aware scheduling system for Edge Computing
    Vilaça J, Paulo J, Vilaça R.
    Workshop on High-Performance and Reliable Big Data (HPBD), colocated with SRDS., 2021.
  • Towards Generic Fine-Grained Transaction Isolation in Polystores
    Faria N., Pereira J., Nunes A., Vilaça R.,.
    The polystore systems for heterogeneous data in multiple databases with privacy and security assurances (Poly 2021) co-located with 47th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases {(VLDB} 2021), 2021.
  • Detailed Black-Box Monitoring of Distributed System
    Neves F., Vilaça R., Pereira, J..
    SIGAPP Appl. Comput. Rev., 2021.
  • Horus: Non-Intrusive Causal Analysis of Distributed Systems Logs
    Neves F., Machado N., Vilaça R., Pereira, J..
    2021 51st Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2021.
  • CODBS: A cascading oblivious search protocol optimized for real-world relational database indexes
    Pontes R., Portela B., Barbosa M., Vilaça R..
    40th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, {SRDS} 2021, 2021.
  • Totally-Ordered Prefix Parallel Snapshot Isolation
    Faria N., Pereira J..
    8th Workshop on Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data, 2021.

2020


  • On the trade-offs of combining multiple secure processing primitives for data analytics
    Carvalho H, Cruz D, Pontes R; Paulo J, Oliveira R.
    Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems International Conference, 2020.
  • Black-box inter-application traffic monitoring for adaptive container placement
    Neves F, Vilaça R, Pereira J.
    Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 2020.
  • Self-tunable DBMS Replication with Reinforcement Learning
    Ferreira L., Coelho F., Pereira J..
    IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, 2020.
  • Building a Polyglot Data Access Layer for a Low-Code Application Development Platform
    Santos L., Soares T., Pereira J..
    IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, 2020.
  • Decentralized privacy-preserving proximity tracing
    Troncoso C., Payer M., Hubaux J., Salathé M., Larus J., Bugnion E.,Lueks W., Stadler T., Pyrgelis A., Antonioli D., Barman L., Chatel S., Paterson K., Čapkun S., Basin D., Beutel J., Jackson D., Roeschlin M., Leu P., Preneel B., Smart N., Abidin A., Gürses S., Veale M.,Cremers C., Backes M., Tippenhauer N., Binns R., Cattuto C., Barrat A., Fiore D., Barbosa M., Oliveira R., Pereira J..
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.12273, 2020.

2019


  • Minha: Large-Scale Distributed Systems Testing Made Practical
    Machado N, Maia F, Neves F, Coelho F, Pereira J.
    International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS), 2019.
  • d'Artagnan: a Trusted NoSQL Database on Untrusted Clouds
    Pontes R, Maia F, Machado N and Vilaça R.
    Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (SRDS), 2019.
  • SafeSpark: Plataforma de Processamento Analítico Seguro
    Carvalho H, Cruz D, Pontes R, Paulo J, Oliveira R.
    INFOrum - Símpósio de Informática, 2019.
  • Electrocardiogram Beat-Classification Based on a ResNet Network
    Brito C, Machado A, Sousa A.
    Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 2019.
  • Recovery in CloudDBAppliance’s High-availability Middleware
    Abreu H, Ferreira L, Coelho F, Alosno A, Pereira J.
    Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications, 2019.
  • Towards Intra-Datacentre High-Availability in CloudDBAppliance
    Ferreira L, Coelho F, Alonso A, Pereira J.
    Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications, 2019.

2018


  • Assessment of an IoT Platform for Data Collection and Analysis for Medical Sensors
    Rei J, Brito C, Sousa A.
    IEEE 4th International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC), 2018.
  • Totally Ordered Replication for Massive Scale Key-Value Stores
    Ribeiro J, Machado N, Maia F, Matos M.
    Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS), 2018.

2017


  • HTAPbench: Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing Benchmark
    Coelho F, Paulo J, Vilaça R, Pereira J, Oliveira R.
    ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE), 2017.
  • A Practical Framework for Privacy-Preserving NoSQL Databases
    Macedo R, Paulo J, Pontes R, Portela B, Oliveira T, Matos M, Oliveira R.
    IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), 2017.
  • Performance trade-offs on a secure multi-party relational database
    Pontes R, Pinto M, Barbosa M , Vilaça R, Matos M, Oliveira R..
    ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), 2017.
  • Prepared scan: efficient retrieval of structured data from HBase
    Neves F, Vilaça R, Pereira J, Oliveira R.
    ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), 2017.
  • DDFlasks: Deduplicated Very Large Scale Data Store
    Maia F, Paulo J, Coelho F, Neves F, Pereira J, Oliveira R.
    Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS), 2017.
  • Towards new data management platforms for a DSO as market enabler - UPGRID Portugal demo
    Nunes Alonso A, Couto R, Pacheco H, Bessa R, Gouveia C, Seca L, Moreira J, Nunes P, Matos P, Oliveira A.
    CIRED - Open Access Proceedings Journal 2017, no.1 (CIRED), 2017.

2016


  • SafeRegions: Performance Evaluation of Multi-party Protocols on HBase
    Pontes R, Maia F, Paulo J, Vilaça R.
    IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems Workshops (SRDSW), 2016.
  • Holistic Shuffler for the Parallel Execution of SQL Window Functions
    Coelho F, Vilaça R, Pereira J, Oliveira R.
    Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS), 2016.
  • Resource usage prediction in distributed key-value datastores
    Cruz F, Maia F, Matos M, Oliveira R,Paulo J, Vilaça R.
    Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS), 2016.
  • Reducing Data Transfer in Parallel Processing of SQL Window Functions
    Coelho F, Pereira J, Vilaça R, Oliveira R.
    Workshop on Towards Convergence of Big Data, SQL, NoSQL, NewSQL, Data streaming/CEP, OLTP and OLAP}, 2016.

2015


  • Implementing a Linear Algebra Approach to Data Processing
    Pontes R, Matos M, Oliveira J, Pereira J.
    Grand Timely Topics (Generative and Transformational Techniques) in Software Engineering (GTTSE), 2015.
  • CumuloNimbo: A Cloud Scalable Multi-tier SQL Database
    Jimenez-Peris R, Patino-Martinez M, Kemme B, Brondino I, Pereira J, Vilaça R, Cruz F, Oliveira R, Ahmad Y.
    Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering, 2015.

2014


  • DATAFLASKS: epidemic store for massive scale systems
    Maia F, Matos M, Vilaça R, Pereira J, Oliveira R, Rivière E.
    Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS), 2014.
  • pH1: A Transactional Middleware for NoSQL
    Coelho F, Cruz F, Vilaça R, Pereira J, Oliveira R.
    IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, 2014.
  • On the Support of Versioning in Distributed Key-Value Stores
    Felber P, Pasin M, Rivière E , Schiavoni V, Sutra P, Coelho F, Oliveira, Matos M, Vilaça R.
    IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, 2014.
  • Workload-aware table splitting for NoSQL
    Cruz F, Maia F, Oliveira R, Vilaça R.
    ACM Symposium On Applied Computing, 2014.

2013


  • MeT: workload aware elasticity for NoSQL
    Cruz F, Maia F, Matos M, Oliveira R, Paulo J, Pereira J, Vilaça R.
    Proceedings of the 8th ACM European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), 2013.
  • Evaluating Cassandra as a Manager of Large File Sets
    Beernaert L, Matos M, Gomes P, Vilaça R, Oliveira R..
    Third Workshop on Cloud Data and Platforms (CloudDP 13), 2013.
  • An effective scalable SQL engine for NoSQL databases
    Vilaça R, Cruz F, Pereira J, Oliveira R..
    Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS), 2013.
  • AJITTS: Adaptive Just-In-Time Transaction Scheduling
    Nunes Alonso A, Oliveira R, Pereira J..
    Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS), 2013.