BIFOLD Colloquium 10/2025

Jigsaw Puzzle of Research for Data Management

Abstract: This talk focus on results and showing benefits, advantages and potential of combining emergent technologies on emergent hardware architectures, providing an overview over a large range of topics. It dives into emergent hardware architectures like many-core cpus, GPUs and quantum computers, and its state-of-the-art and opportunities for research for data management. We also look into recent results for the Semantic Internet-of-Things. We discuss which emergent hardware architecture has benefits for which data management problem: For example, FPGAs directly support data processing pipelines and quantum computers solve optimization problems of queries and transaction schedules. This talk aims to address the different topics as puzzle pieces that can be put together as a generic type for the advancement in the considered research fields.

Bio: Sven Groppe is a Professor at the University of Lübeck and the project coordinator of the BMBF-funded project QC4DB – Accelerating Relational Database Management Systems via Quantum Computing. Furthermore, he is principle investigator in the ANR-DFG funded project "High Quality Knowledge Graphs from recent English, French and German Emergent Trends with the example of COVID-19" (QualityOnt). Previous projects cover topics about Semantic Web databases, GPU and FPGA hardware acceleration of relational and Semantic Web databases, and advanced data management techniques for the Semantic Internet-of-Things. He is a full member of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group WG2.6 Database. He has been a member of the RDF Data Access Working Group, which has been a working group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to specify SPARQL, and the Rule Interchange Format Working Group of the W3C. Over 140 program committee memberships in international conferences and workshops, reviewing activities in over 40 internationally recognized journals and for 8 funding organizations, editorial activities in 4 journals and chair of Semantic Big Data, Big Data in Emergent Distributed Environments, Quantum Data Science and Very Large Internet of Things -Workshops at the first-class ACM SIGMOD and VLDB conferences as well as general chair of the International Semantic Intelligence Conference, International Conference on Applied Machine Learning and Data Analytics, International Health Informatics Conference (IHIC) and other conferences as well as co-authorship with over 200 scientists from 28 countries on 6 continents are hints for a strong integration into the scientific community. For more details about his academic career, visit https://www.ifis.uni-luebeck.de/~groppe.