Databases & Distributed Systems

Call closed as of November 2022

This call solicits gift-funded research proposals with innovative approaches to designing, building, or operating large-scale database services or distributed cloud services with a strong data management component. Proposals should seek to advance the state-of-the-art in database management and distributed systems in the following topic areas: 

1. Intelligent database services in which machine learning techniques are applied to optimize the configuration or operation of the system, including efficient resource management.
2. Global database services where data is distributed and replicated in multiple regions of the world while the system ensures consistency, performance, and data sovereignty. 
3. Correct database services whose design and operation includes formal methods, model checking, fuzzing, and other techniques for ensuring that the system performs according to a specification.
4. Private and secure database services that incorporate homomorphic encryption, secure multi-party protocols, differential privacy or other techniques to protect data at rest while permitting complex queries.
5. Real-time database services for predictive analytics where frequently ingested data feeds into continuous queries.