Welcome to the Database Research Group

The Database Research Group is part of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Salzburg, Austria. Our research interests include data-centric applications in database and information systems with a particular focus on similarity search queries over large data collections, for example, approximate matching of strings and trees, efficient indexes for distance computations, and top-k queries. Other fields of research include load balancing algorithms for distributed frameworks like MapReduce and queries in geographic information systems. The research results are new algorithms with performance guarantees, which are implemented and evaluated on the motivating application.

Nikolaus Augsten
Head of the Database Research Group

Martin Schäler
Deputy Head of the Database Research Group

News

Paper at SIGMOD 2023
15.11.2022
Our paper "FINEX: A Fast Index for Exact & Flexible Density-Based Clustering" has been accepted at the ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD) 2023.
Paper at ICDE 2023
09.11.2022
Our paper "MetricJoin: Leveraging Metric Properties for Robust Exact Set Similarity Joins" has been accepted at the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2023.
Three Open Topic Professorships at University of Salzburg
15.09.2022
Three open topic professorships are to be filled within the framework of the "Excellence in Digital Sciences and Interdisciplinary Technologies" Initiative (EXDIGIT) at the University of Salzburg. Deadline: Oct 24, 2022. Official job post: §-99-1-EXDIGIT-englisch-1.pdf
Disseminate Podcast
08.07.2022
Thomas Hütter talks about our JSON Edit Distance (JEDI) on Jack Waudby's Disseminate Podcast.