Information:
I am a Ph.D. Candidate researching database systems under Stan Zdonik. My research includes the development of automatic database design and optimization algorithms for Michael Stonebraker's OLTP database project H-Store (the commercial version is called VoltDB). I am also interested in database technologies for algorithmic trading of penny stocks, specifically OTC-BB and Pink Sheet stocks. In my salad days, I was a systems programmer for the Condor Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison under Miron Livny.
Office: CIT 317
Email: (lastname)@cs.brown.edu
Twitter: @andy_pavlo (Latest Updates Posted Here)
Publications & Papers:
- Andrew Pavlo, Evan P. C. Jones, and Stanley Zdonik, "On Predictive Modeling for Optimizing Transaction Execution in Parallel OLTP Systems," in Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment., vol. 5, pp. 85-96, October 2011. [PDF]
- Michael Stonebraker, Daniel Abadi, David. J. DeWitt, Samuel Madden, Erik Paulson, Andrew Pavlo, and Alexander Rasin, "MapReduce and Parallel DBMSs: Friends or Foes?," Communications of the ACM, vol. 53, iss. 1, pp. 64-71, January 2010. [PDF] [INFO]
- Andrew Pavlo, Erik Paulson, Alexander Rasin, Daniel J. Abadi, David J. DeWitt, Samuel Madden, and Michael Stonebraker. "A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis", In Proceedings of SIGMOD, June 2009. [PDF] [INFO]
- Robert Kallman, Hideaki Kimura, Jonathan Natkins, Andrew Pavlo, Alexander Rasin, Stanley Zdonik, Evan P.C. Jones, Yang Zhang, Samuel Madden, Michael Stonebraker, John Hugg, Daniel J. Abadi. "H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System", In Proceedings of VLDB, pages 1496 - 1499, August 2008. [PDF]
- Ewa Deelman, Miron Livny, Gaurang Mehta, Andrew Pavlo, Gurmeet Singh, Mei-Hui Su, Karan Vahi, and R. Kent Wenger. "Pegasus and DAGMan from concept to execution: Mapping scientific workflows onto today's cyberinfrastructure". High Performance Computing (HPC) and Grids in Action, volume 16, Advances in Parallel Computing, pages 56 - 74. March 2008. [PDF] [INFO]
- Andrew Pavlo, Peter Couvares, Rebekah Gietzel, Anatoly Karp, Ian D. Alderman, Miron Livny, and Charles Bacon, "The NMI Build & Test Laboratory: Continuous Integration Framework for Distributed Computing Software", Proceedings of LISA '06: Twentieth Systems Administration Conference, Washington, DC, December 2006, pages 263 - 273. [PDF]
- Christopher Homan and Andrew Pavlo and Jonathan Schull, "Smoother transitions between breadth-first-spanning-tree-based drawings", Proceedings of Graph Drawing, 14th International Symposium, GD 2006, Karlsruhe, Germany, September 18-20, 2006. [PDF] Mrytle Beach, SC
Invited Talks:
- Andrew Pavlo, "Making Fast Databases Faster", New England Database Summit 2012, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February 2012. [PDF] [INFO]
- Andrew Pavlo, "Magical Parallel OLTP Databases", Massachusetts Institute of Technology, November 2011. [PDF] [INFO]
- Andrew Pavlo, "Life After the Stonebraker Stores", HPTS 2011, October 2011. [PDF] [INFO]
- Andrew Pavlo, "MapReduce and Parallel DBMSs: Together At Last", New England Database Summit 2010, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, January 2010. [PDF] [INFO]
- Evan Jones and Andrew Pavlo, "H-Store: A Specialized Architecture for High-throughput OLTP Applications", 13th International Workshop on High Performance Transaction Systems, October 2009. [PDF]
- Andrew Pavlo, "Graffiti Networks: A Subversive, Internet-Scale File Sharing Model", DC401 - Rhode Island Defcon Group, October 2009. [PDF] [INFO]
- Andrew Pavlo, "MapReduce and Parallel DBMSs: A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis", University of Maryland College Park, September 2009. [PDF] [INFO]
- Andrew Pavlo, "Hadoop @ Brown", Brown University, Invited Speaker - CS295, October 2008. [PDF] [INFO]
Miscellaneous Writings:
- Andrew Pavlo and Ning Shi, "Graffiti Networks: A Subversive, Internet-Scale File Sharing Model", Technical Report, arXiv.org, January 2011. [PDF] [INFO]
- Andrew Pavlo, "The Penurious Scorned", City of Madison Parking Division Appeal Letter, University of Wisconsin, November 2006. [PDF]
- Andrew Pavlo and Christopher Homan and Jonathan Schull, "A parent-centered radial layout algorithm for interactive graph visualization and animation", Technical Report, arXiv.org, June 2006. [PDF]
- Andrew Pavlo, "Interactive, tree-based graph visualization", Masters Thesis, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, 2006. [PDF]