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     <h2 id="apache-incubating-quickstep">Apache (Incubating) Quickstep</h2>
 <p>Quickstep is a project starting out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It’s now an <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/QUICKSTEP/Quickstep+Home">Apache (incubating) project</a>!</p>

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   <li><a href="http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~harshad/">Harshad Deshmukh</a></li>
   <li><a href="https://github.com/hakanmemisoglu/">Hakan Memisoglu</a></li>
   <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/udip-pant-a8b59029/">Udip Pant</a></li>
   <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/navneet-potti-23583918">Navneet Potti</a></li>
   <li><a href="http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~gerald/">Adalbert G. Soosai Raj</a></li>
   <li><a href="http://saketsaurabh.com/">Saket Saurabh</a></li>
   <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/siddharth-suresh-93a67649">Siddharth Suresh</a></li>
   <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-spehlmann-0a60258b/">Marc Spehlmann</a></li>
   <li><a href="https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~zuyu/">Zuyu Zhang</a></li>
   <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jianqiao-zhu-94542a40">Jianqiao Zhu</a></li>
   <li><a href="http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~jignesh/">Jignesh M. Patel</a></li>
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   <li><a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/content/anushacswiscedu">Anusha Dasarakothapalli</a></li>
   <li><a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/users/fanj">Jing Fan</a></li>
   <li><a href="http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~yinan/">Yinan Li</a></li>
   <li><a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/users/paton/">James Paton</a></li>
   <li><a href="http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~sangmin/">Sangmin Shin</a></li>
   <li><a href="http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~qzeng/">Qiang Zeng</a></li>
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 <p><a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/%7Ejignesh/publ/Grail.pdf">The case against specialized graph analytics engines</a>, J. Fan, G. Soosai Raj, and J. M. Patel. CIDR 2015. <a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/%7Ejignesh/publ/Grail-slides.pdf">Slides</a>.</p>

 <p><a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/%7Ejignesh/publ/QuickFoil.pdf">QuickFOIL: Scalable Inductive Logic Programming</a>, Q. Zeng, J. M. Patel, and D. Page. VLDB 2015.</p>

 <p><a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/%7Ejignesh/publ/dissecting-R.pdf">Profiling R on a Contemporary Processor</a>, S. Sridharan and J. M. Patel, VLDB 2015 (to appear). <a href="pubs/dissecting-R-ext.pdf">Extended paper</a>.<br />
 <small><a href="http://quickstep.cs.wisc.edu/dissecting-R/">Download code and scripts</a>.</small></p>

 <p><a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/%7Ejignesh/publ/WideTable.pdf">WideTable: An Accelerator for Analytical Data Processing</a>, Y. Li and J. M. Patel, VLDB 2014. <a href="http://bigfastdata.blogspot.com/2014/08/widetable-accelerator-for-analytic-data.html">blog</a>.</p>

 <p><a href="http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol6/p1474-chasseur.pdf">Design and Evaluation of Storage Organizations For Read-Optimized Main-Memory Databases</a>, C. Chasseur and J. M. Patel, VLDB 2014.<br />
 <small><a href="storage-explorer/quickstep-storage-explorer-0.1.tar.bz2">Download v0.1 of the Quickstep Storage Manager</a>, released under <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">license</a>; start with the <a href="storage-explorer/README-0.1.txt">README</a> file.</small></p>

 <p><a href="http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~jignesh/publ/BitWeaving.pdf">BitWeaving: Fast Scans for Main Memory Data Processing</a>, Y. Li and J. M. Patel, SIGMOD 2013.</p>

 <p><a href="http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~chasseur/pubs/argo-short.pdf">Enabling JSON Document Stores in Relational Systems</a>, C. Chasseur, Y. Li, and J. M. Patel, WebDB 2013.<br />
 <small><a href="argo/argo.tar.bz2">Download the Argo mapping layer</a>. <a href="argo/nobench.tar.bz2">Download the NoBench benchmark</a>.</small></p>

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 <p>Quickstep is supported in part by the <a href="http://www.nsf.gov/">National Science Foundation</a> under grants IIS-0963993 and IIS-1250886.</p>

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	<p>Quickstep is a project starting out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It’s now an <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/QUICKSTEP/Quickstep+Home">Apache (incubating) project</a>!</p>

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	<li><a href="https://github.com/hakanmemisoglu/">Hakan Memisoglu</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/udip-pant-a8b59029/">Udip Pant</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/navneet-potti-23583918">Navneet Potti</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~gerald/">Adalbert G. Soosai Raj</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://saketsaurabh.com/">Saket Saurabh</a></li>
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	<p><a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/%7Ejignesh/publ/Grail.pdf">The case against specialized graph analytics engines</a>, J. Fan, G. Soosai Raj, and J. M. Patel. CIDR 2015. <a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/%7Ejignesh/publ/Grail-slides.pdf">Slides</a>.</p>

	<p><a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/%7Ejignesh/publ/QuickFoil.pdf">QuickFOIL: Scalable Inductive Logic Programming</a>, Q. Zeng, J. M. Patel, and D. Page. VLDB 2015.</p>

	<p><a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/%7Ejignesh/publ/dissecting-R.pdf">Profiling R on a Contemporary Processor</a>, S. Sridharan and J. M. Patel, VLDB 2015 (to appear). <a href="pubs/dissecting-R-ext.pdf">Extended paper</a>.<br />
	<small><a href="http://quickstep.cs.wisc.edu/dissecting-R/">Download code and scripts</a>.</small></p>

	<p><a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/%7Ejignesh/publ/WideTable.pdf">WideTable: An Accelerator for Analytical Data Processing</a>, Y. Li and J. M. Patel, VLDB 2014. <a href="http://bigfastdata.blogspot.com/2014/08/widetable-accelerator-for-analytic-data.html">blog</a>.</p>

	<p><a href="http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol6/p1474-chasseur.pdf">Design and Evaluation of Storage Organizations For Read-Optimized Main-Memory Databases</a>, C. Chasseur and J. M. Patel, VLDB 2014.<br />
	<small><a href="storage-explorer/quickstep-storage-explorer-0.1.tar.bz2">Download v0.1 of the Quickstep Storage Manager</a>, released under <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">license</a>; start with the <a href="storage-explorer/README-0.1.txt">README</a> file.</small></p>

	<p><a href="http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~jignesh/publ/BitWeaving.pdf">BitWeaving: Fast Scans for Main Memory Data Processing</a>, Y. Li and J. M. Patel, SIGMOD 2013.</p>

	<p><a href="http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~chasseur/pubs/argo-short.pdf">Enabling JSON Document Stores in Relational Systems</a>, C. Chasseur, Y. Li, and J. M. Patel, WebDB 2013.<br />
	<small><a href="argo/argo.tar.bz2">Download the Argo mapping layer</a>. <a href="argo/nobench.tar.bz2">Download the NoBench benchmark</a>.</small></p>

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	<p>Quickstep is supported in part by the <a href="http://www.nsf.gov/">National Science Foundation</a> under grants IIS-0963993 and IIS-1250886.</p>

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