Danica Porobic

I am a Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Oracle Switzerland, working on AI infrastructure technologies in the Oracle Database. I have graduated from EPFL where I was a member of the DIAS lab led by Prof. Anastasia Ailamaki. The topic of my graduate research are transaction processing systems on non-uniform hardware platforms. For more details, take a look at my CV.

Publications

P. Li, B. Glavic, D. Gawlick, V. Krishnaswamy, Z. Liu, D. Porobic, X. Niu: "In-memory Incremental Maintenance of Provenance Sketches", EDBT 2026, Best Paper Award
B. Glavic, P. Li, Z. Liu, D. Gawlick, V. Krishnaswamy, D. Porobic, Z. Liu: "Towards an Objective Metric for Data Value Through Relevance", CIDR 2025
L. Benson, C. Binnig, J. Bodensohn, F. Lorenzi, J. Luo, D. Porobic, T. Rabl, A. Sanghi, R. Sears, P. Tozun, T. Ziegler: "Surprise Benchmarking: The Why, What, and How", DBTest 2024
L. Vogel, D. Ritter, D. Porobic, P. Tozun, T. Wang, A. Lerner: "Data Pipes: Declarative Control over Data Movement", CIDR 2024
X. Niu, B. Glavic, Z. Liu, P. Li, D. Gawlick, V. Krishnaswamy, Z. Liu, D. Porobic: "Provenance-based Data Skipping", VLDB 2021
U. Sirin, P. Tozun, D. Porobic, A. Yasin, A. Ailamaki: "Micro-architectural Analysis of In-memory OLTP: Revisited", VLDB Journal 2021
R. Appuswamy, A. Anadiotis, D. Porobic, M. Iman, A. Ailamaki: "Analyzing the Impact of System Architecture on the Scalability of OLTP Engines for High-Contention Workloads", VLDB 2018 pdf
A. Ailamaki, E. Liarou, P. Tozun, D. Porobic, I. Psaroudakis: "Databases on Modern Hardware: How to Stop Under-Utilization and Love Multicores", Morgan & Claypool Synthesis Lectures on Data Management, 2017
R. Appuswamy, M. Karpathiotakis, D. Porobic, A. Ailamaki: "The Case For Heterogeneous HTAP", CIDR 2017 pdf
A. Ailamaki, D. Porobic, U. Sirin: "Performance and Energy Analysis Using Transactional Workloads", TPC-TC 2016
D. Porobic, P. Tozun, R. Appuswamy, A. Ailamaki: "More Than a Network: Distributed OLTP on Clusters of Hardware Islands", DaMon 2016 preprint
U. Sirin, P. Tozun, D. Porobic, A. Ailamaki: "Microarchitectural Analysis of In-memory OLTP", SIGMOD 2016 preprint
D. Porobic, I. Pandis, M. Branco, P. Tozun, A. Ailamaki: "Characterization of the Impact of Hardware Islands on OLTP", VLDB Journal 2015 preprint URL
D. Cervini, D. Porobic, P. Tozun, A. Ailamaki: "Applying HTM to an OLTP System: No Free Lunch", DaMon 2015 pdf
A. Ailamaki, E. Liarou, P. Tozun, D. Porobic, I. Psaroudakis: "How to Stop Under-Utilization and Love Multicores", ICDE 2015
D. Porobic: "Smoothing non-uniform communication latencies for OLTP", CIDR 2015 abstract
I. Psaroudakis, T. Kissinger, D. Porobic, T. Ilsche, E. Liarou, P. Tozun, A. Ailamaki, W. Lehner: "Dynamic Fine-Grained Scheduling for Energy-Efficient Main-Memory Queries", DaMon 2014 pdf
A. Ailamaki, E. Liarou, P. Tozun, D. Porobic, I. Psaroudakis: "How to Stop Under-Utilization and Love Multicores", SIGMOD 2014
D. Porobic, E. Liarou, P. Tozun, A. Ailamaki: "ATraPos: Adaptive Transaction Processing on Hardware Islands", ICDE 2014 pdf
D. Porobic, I. Pandis, M. Branco, P. Tozun, A. Ailamaki: "OLTP on Hardware Islands", VLDB 2012 pdf
I. Pandis, P. Tozun, M. Branco, D. Karampinas, D. Porobic, R. Johnson, A. Ailamaki: "A Data-oriented Transaction Execution Engine and Supporting Tools", SIGMOD 2011, Best Demo Award virtual demo
B. Uzelac, N. Matkovic, D. Porobic: "Testing Spatial Methods in SQL Server 11.0", DBTest 2011
M. Kallay, D. Porobic: "Buffer with Arcs on a Round Earth", GiScience 2010

Talks

D. Porobic: "Breaking the cycle of complexity", HPTS 2017
D. Porobic, P. Tozun, R. Appuswamy, A. Ailamaki: "More Than a Network: Distributed OLTP on Clusters of Hardware Islands", DaMon 2016 slides
A. Ailamaki, E. Liarou, P. Tozun, D. Porobic, I. Psaroudakis: "How to Stop Under-Utilization and Love Multicores", COMAD 2016 slides
D. Cervini, D. Porobic, P. Tozun, A. Ailamaki: "Applying HTM to an OLTP System: No Free Lunch", DaMon 2015 slides
A. Ailamaki, E. Liarou, P. Tozun, D. Porobic, I. Psaroudakis: "How to Stop Under-Utilization and Love Multicores", ICDE 2015 slides
A. Ailamaki, E. Liarou, P. Tozun, D. Porobic, I. Psaroudakis: "How to Stop Under-Utilization and Love Multicores", SIGMOD 2014 slides
D. Porobic, E. Liarou, P. Tozun, A. Ailamaki: "ATraPos: Adaptive Transaction Processing on Hardware Islands", ICDE 2014 slides
D. Porobic, I. Pandis, M. Branco, P. Tozun, A. Ailamaki: "OLTP on Hardware Islands", VLDB 2012 slides

Contact

Address

Prime Tower
8005 Zurich
Switzerland

Email

danica.porobic@oracle.com
danicaporobic@live.com