EDBT/ICDT 2023 Invited Talks

We are very pleased to announce the EDBT/ICDT 2023 invited speakers.

Seshadhri Comandur, "Subgraph counting and graph orientations: the gift that keeps on giving"

Juliana Freire, "Interactive data visualization/exploration"

Jayant Haritsa, "Query optimization and alternative to DL/ML approach"

GAnil Goel, "From a DB engine to a data management platform: On the design and making of HANA Cloud"

Leonid Libkin, "The Essence of GQL"

Gonzalo Navarro, "Compact Data Structures Meet Databases"

Keynote 1: From a DB engine to a data management platform: On the design and making of HANA Cloud
by GAnil Goel

Abstract:AP HANA ventured out as a commercial database engine over a decade ago for supporting large-scale enterprise-critical applications. Available on-premises and as a hosted solution, SAP HANA quickly became an unrivaled and trendsetting database for processing HTAP enterprise workloads. With sophisticated In-Memory capabilities exploiting modern hardware, SAP HANA helped consolidate complex IT landscapes and allowed the development of a novel class of business applications. As SAP HANA engine matured, it quickly started to face the industry need for evolution towards a cloud-based data management platform targeting qualities beyond a high-performant database engine along several new dimensions including operability at scale, security and total cost for managing very large datasets. Some such qualities included low effort administration and availability, zero-downtime upgrades, multi-tenancy, full-stack encryption and key management, support of file-organized datasets residing in cloud storage, as well as multi-model capabilities to query graph, document, and relational data within the same database context. SAP HANA Cloud is now a cloud-based data management platform supporting traditional enterprise-scale applications as well as the interactive knowledge worker exploring large amounts of complex structured datasets. It is also the de-facto standard for hyper-scaler agnostic and multi-cloud data management scenarios. This talk will touch upon some of the challenges in designing and evolving towards SAP HANA Cloud and outline the steps ahead.

GAnil Goel Anil K Goel is CTO / Head of Technology office for SAP HANA Database and Analytics, where he works with the globally distributed data management and analytics engineering teams to drive forward looking architectures, vision, strategy, research, and pathfinding. He also oversees data management and analytics related collaborative research and internship programs with many universities globally. His interests include database system architecture, in-memory and large-scale distributed computing, self-management of software systems and cost modelling. Anil earned a PhD in computer science from University of Waterloo. He holds MTech (CS) from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and BE (Electronics and Communications Engineering) from University of Delhi.