Publication
Technical Perspective on 'BOSS - An Architecture for Database Kernel Composition'
Carsten Binnig
In: SIGMOD Record, Vol. 54, No. 1, Pages 1-1, SIGMOD, 2025.
Abstract
Composability is becoming an important characteristic of modern
database systems, enabling exible integration of storage, process-
ing, and acceleration components. This shift allows specialized
accelerators, various specialized storage backends, and dierent
query execution engines for CPUs and GPUS to seamlessly work to-
gether to execute a workload. By embracing composability, database
systems can better ensure adaptability in an increasingly complex
data landscape rather than developing a zoo of specialized database
systems — one for each workload. The VLDB 2024 paper ’BOSS -
An Architecture for Database Kernel Composition’ [3] is one of the
rst papers that tackles the composability of data systems with low
added overhead and a holistic view of the full stack.