Francisco Almeida Maia

The Stratus project aims at advancing the state of the art by skewing the current trade-off towards the needs of common business users, thus providing additional consistency guarantees and higher level data processing primitives that ease the migration from current DBMS. This requires determining adequate compromises and abstractions, and then devising mechanisms to realize them. The achievement of these goals is to be demonstrated by a proof-of-concept providing a conflict-free, strongly consistent data storage, with in-place processing capabilities, while allowing to leverage large computing infrastructures with distributed storage capabilities.