Research Interests

  • in-memory database systems
  • database system architectures
  • performance issues
  • distributed database systems
  • Hao ZHANG is supervised under Prof. Beng Chin Ooi, and is a member of NUS Database System Research Group. His research interests include in-memory database systems, database system architectures, performance issues, and distributed database systems. He has been working on the in-memory database system - MemepiC since 2012, with focus on the performance issues inherited from the traditional database architecture, new challenges on in-memory database systems, and utilization of newly-emerged hardware (e.g., RDMA, HTM, NUMA, NVRAM).

    He published several papers on top journals and conferences, such as VLDB, ICDE, TKDE, and he is also a reviewer of TKDE and the journal of Big Data Research.


    Selected Publications ( Google Scholar )

  • H. Zhang, Q. Cai, G. Chen, W. Guo, R. Liu, B. C. Ooi, K.-L. Tan, Y. M. Teo. Globally Addressable Memory: Towards Shared Memory Model on RDMA Network.
  • Q. Cai, H. Zhang, G. Chen, B. C. Ooi, K.-L. Tan, W.-F. Fai. MemepiC: Towards a Unified In-Memory Big Data Management System. (Under Review: Transactions on Big Data)
  • A. Dinh, J. Wang, S. Wang, G. Chen, W.-N. Chin, Q. Lin, B. C. Ooi, P. Ruan, K.-L. Tan, Z. Xie, H. Zhang, M. Zhang. UStore: A Distributed Storage With Rich Semantics, arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.02799, 2017.
  • K.-L. Tan, Q. Cai, B. C. Ooi, W.-F. Wong, C. Yao, H. Zhang: In-memory Databases – Challenges and Opportunities -- From Software and Hardware Perspectives. ACM SIGMOD Record, Special Issue on Visionary Ideas in Data Management, Vol. 44, No. 2, 35 – 40, June 2015.
  • H. Zhang, G. Chen, B. C. Ooi, K. L. Tan, M. Zhang: In-Memory Big Data Management and Processing: A Survey. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Vol. 27, No. 7, 1920 – 1948, July 2015.
  • D. Loghin, B. M. Tudor, H. Zhang, B. C. Ooi, Y. M. Teo: A Performance Study of Big Data on Small Nodes. 41st Int'l Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), 762 – 773, 2015.
  • H. Zhang, G. Chen, B. C. Ooi, W.-F. Wong, S. Wu, Y. Xia: "Anti-Caching"-based Elastic Memory Management for Big Data. 31st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 1268 – 1279, 2015.
  • H. Zhang, B. M. Tudor, G. Chen, B. C. Ooi: Efficient In-memory Data Management: An Analysis. 40th Int'l Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), 833 – 836, 2014. (related resources)

  • Professional Activities

    In-memory Data Management Systems -- Challenges and Opportunities , talk at Renmin University, China.

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