Pathfinder

Three European sites are the driving forces behind the Pathfinder and MonetDB/XQuery projects. The Pathfinder XQuery compiler is designed and developed by the Database Research Group at the Technische Universität München. The MonetDB extensible relational database kernel, the back-end of the MonetDB/XQuery system has been developed at the Database Architectures and Information Access Group at the Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI), Amsterdem (The Netherlands). Among other bits and pieces, the good folks at the Database Group at the University of Twente (The Netherlands) contributed substantially to the design of highly-efficient XPath evaluation algorithms.

Research and Development Staff (intra-site alphabetical order)

• Technische Universität München (Germany)
  • Prof. Torsten Grust
  • Manuel Mayr
  • Jan Rittinger
  • Dr. Jens Teubner

• CWI Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
  • Wouter Alink
  • Dr. Peter Boncz
  • Dr. Stefan Manegold
  • Sjoerd Muellender
  • Dr. Niels Nes
  • Ying Zhang

• University of Twente (The Netherlands)
  • Riham Abdel Kader
  • Jan Flokstra
  • Dr. Maurice van Keulen
  • Henning Rode
    

Further contributors, without whose help the system would not be what it is today, are (in alphabetical order): Fabian Groffen, Samuel Kerschbaumer, Stefan Klinger, Sherif Sakr, Sabine Teubner, Rens Verhage. Thanks guys!