I am a postdoc associate in Database Group at MIT CSAIL, working with Professors Sam Madden and Michael Stonebraker. My current research focusses on improving the performance of novel large-scale data-intensive systems. I received my PhD from Saarland University in August 2012, working with Prof. Jens Dittrich. During my PhD, I worked on flexible and scalable data storage for traditional databases as well as for MapReduce. Before that I received bachelor degree from IIT Kanpur.
Research Interests
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Database Systems
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Large-scale Data-intensive Systems
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Data Management in the Cloud, MapReduce
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Data Preparation and Physical Database Design
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Graph Analytics
Research Projects
Publications
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Zuhair Khayyat, Ihab F. Ilyas, Alekh Jindal, Samuel Madden, Mourad Ouzzani, Paolo Papotti, Jorge-Arnulfo Quiane-Ruiz, Nan Tang, Si Yin
BigDansing: A System for Big Data Cleansing
SIGMOD 2015, Melbourne, Australia. (to appear)
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Alekh Jindal
Robust Data Transformations
CIDR 2015, Asilomar, USA. (Abstract)
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Alekh Jindal, Samuel Madden, Malu Castellanos, Meichun Hsu
Graph Analytics using the Vertica Relational Database
arXiv:1412.5263 [cs.DB], Dec 17, 2014
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Alekh Jindal, Samuel Madden
GraphiQL: A Graph Intuitive Query Language for Relational Databases
IEEE BigData 2014, Washington DC, USA. (Acceptance rate: 18.5%) [slides]
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Alekh Jindal, Praynaa Rawlani, Eugene Wu, Samuel Madden, Amol Deshpande, Mike Stonebraker
Vertexica: Your Relational Friend for Graph Analytics!
VLDB 2014, Hangzhou, China. (Demo paper)
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Felix Martin Schuhknecht, Alekh Jindal, Jens Dittrich
The Uncracked Pieces in Database Cracking
VLDB 2014/PVLDB, Hangzhou, China. [Source Code]
Best Paper Award
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Alekh Jindal, Endre Palatinus, Vladimir Pavlov, Jens Dittrich
A Comparison of Knives for Bread Slicing
VLDB 2013/PVLDB, Riva, Italy.
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Alekh Jindal, Jorge-Arnulfo Quiane-Ruiz, Samuel Madden
Cartilage: Adding Flexibility to the Hadoop Skeleton
SIGMOD 2013, New York, USA. (Demo paper) [poster]
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Barzan Mozafari, Carlo Curino, Alekh Jindal, Samuel Madden
Performance and Resource Modeling in Highly-Concurrent OLTP Workloads
SIGMOD 2013, New York, USA.
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Alekh Jindal, Jorge-Arnulfo Quiane-Ruiz, Jens Dittrich
WWHow! Freeing Data Storage from Cages
CIDR 2013, Asilomar, USA.
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Alekh Jindal, Felix Martin Schuhknecht, Jens Dittrich, Karen Khachatryan, Alexander Bunte
How Achaeans Would Construct Columns in Troy
CIDR 2013, Asilomar, USA. [slides]
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Jens Dittrich, Jorge-Arnulfo Quiané-Ruiz, Stefan Richter, Stefan Schuh, Alekh Jindal, Jörg Schad
Only Aggressive Elephants are Fast Elephants
VLDB 2012/PVLDB, Istanbul, Turkey.
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Alekh Jindal, Jorge-Arnulfo Quiane-Ruiz, Jens Dittrich
Trojan Data Layouts: Right Shoes for a Running Elephant
ACM SOCC 2011, Cascais, Portugal. [slides] [poster]
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Alekh Jindal, Jens Dittrich
Relax and Let the Database do the Partitioning Online
VLDB BIRTE 2011, Seattle, USA. TR [slides]
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Jens Dittrich, Alekh Jindal
Towards a one-size-fits-all Database Architecture
CIDR 2011, Outrageous Ideas and Vision Track, Asilomar, USA.
Best Outrageous Ideas and Vision Paper Award (CCC Blog)
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Jens Dittrich, Jorge-Arnulfo Quiane-Ruiz, Alekh Jindal, Yagiz Kargin, Vinay Setty, and Jörg Schad.
Hadoop++: Making a Yellow Elephant Run Like a Cheetah (Without It Even Noticing)
VLDB 2010, Singapore.
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Alekh Jindal
The Mimicking Octopus: Towards a one-size-fits-all Database Architecture
VLDB 2010 PhD Workshop, Singapore. [slides] [poster]
Patents
- Replicated data storage system and methods (WO2013139379).
- A method for storing and accessing data in a database system (WO2012032184, US20130226959).
Professional Activities
Short CV
Education
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April 2013 - Present:
Postdoctoral Associate, CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
Focus: Big Data Analytics.
Mentor: Prof. Samuel Madden
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February 2010 - August 2012:
Ph.D. (Summa Cum Laude), Computer Science, Saarland University, Germany.
Thesis: OctopusDB:Flexible and Scalable Storage Management for Arbitrary Database Engines. PDF
Supervisor: Prof. Jens Dittrich
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October 2008 - January 2010:
Master of Science (honors), Computer Science, Saarland University & Max Plank Institute for Informatics, Germany.
Thesis: Quality in Phrase Mining. PDF
Supervisors: Prof. Jens Dittrich, Prof. Gerhard Weikum
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July 2002 - June 2006:
Bachelor of Technology, Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.
Thesis: Microcontroller Based Power Distribution Monitoring & Control.
Supervisor: Prof. S. P. Das
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