Every time you surf the web, check your credit card balance, or even sign up for a class at ɫӰƬ, you’re using a relational database.
Relational databases are basically the back end of operating software, aggregating information and culling results based on your search or query. Improving the speed of these results, known as query optimization, is the focus of computer science and engineering and his third-year graduate students Yesdaulet Izenov and Asoke Datta.