Research
The novelty and application prospects of this research are well-recognized in academia, being published in top-tier journals and international conferences.
Published Papers
Blockchains vs. Distributed Databases: Dichotomy and Fusion
Pingcheng Ruan, Tien Tuan Anh Dinh, Dumitrel Loghin, Meihui Zhang, Gang Chen, Qian Lin, Beng Chin Ooi, in SIGMOD 2021.
Hybrid Blockchain Database Systems: Design and Performance
Zerui Ge, Dumitrel Loghin, Beng Chin Ooi, Pingcheng Ruan, Tianwen Wang, in VLDB 2022.
LedgerView: Access-Control Views on Hyperledger Fabric
Pingcheng Ruan, Yaron Kanza, Beng Chin Ooi, Divesh Srivastava, in SIGMOD 2022.
The Metaverse Data Deluge: What Can We Do About It?
Beng Chin Ooi, Gang Chen, Mike Zheng Shou, Kian-Lee Tan, Anthony Tung, Xiaokui Xiao, James Yip, Binxue Zhang, Meihui Zhang, in ICDE 2023.
GlassDB: An Efficient Verifiable Ledger Database System Through Transparency
Cong Yue, Tien Tuan Anh Dinh, Zhongle Xie, Meihui Zhang, Gang Chen, Beng Chin Ooi, Xiaokui Xiao, in VLDB 2023.
Interoperability in Blockchain: A Survey
Kunpeng Ren, Nhut-Minh Ho, Dumitrel Loghin, Thanh-Toan Nguyen, Beng Chin Ooi, Quang-Trung Ta, Feida Zhu.
FEAST: A Communication-efficient Federated Feature Selection Framework for Relational Data
Rui Fu, Yuncheng Wu, Quanqing Xu, Meihui Zhang. In SIGMOD 2023.
VeDB: A Software and Hardware Enabled Trusted Relational Database
Xinying Yang, Ruide Zhang, Cong Yue, Yang Liu, Beng Chin Ooi, Qun Gao, Zhang Yuan, Hao Yang. In SIGMOD 2023.
VeriBench: Analyzing the Performance of Database Systems with Verifiability
Cong Yue, Maihui Zhang, Changhao Zhu, Gang Chen, Dumitrel Loghin, Beng Chin Ooi. In VLDB 2023.
BBSF: Blockchain Benchmarking Standardized Framework
Kunpeng Ren, Jefferson Van Buskirk, Zheng Yong Ang, Shizheng Hou, Nathaniel Cable, Miguel Monares, Hank Korth, Dumitrel Loghin. In VDBS workshop co-located with SIGMOD 2023.
Baldur: A Hybrid Blockchain Database with FPGA or GPU Acceleration
Rares Ifrim, Dumitrel Loghin, Decebal Popescu. In VDBS workshop co-located with SIGMOD 2023.
Other Papers and Books
Blockchains: Decentralized and Verifiable Data Systems
Pingcheng Ruan, Tien Tuan Anh Dinh, Dumitrel Loghin, Meihui Zhang, Gang Chen, in Synthesis Lectures on Data Management, 2022.
The Anatomy of Blockchain Database Systems
Dumitrel Loghin, in Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering, 2022
NUS Database System Research Group
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