Niv Dayan Advisory Board, Speedb

Speedb Ltd. named data structures researcher Niv Dayan to its advisory board.

He designs and optimizes the data structures used in modern database systems. His research examines new ways to scale storage engines for 100x big data by revisiting a classic challenge in computer science: how to scale core dictionary data structures such that their performance deteriorates as slowly as possible with respect to massive increases in data size.

He holds 5 registered patents, has authored 19 peer-reviewed papers, 2 of which won ACM SIGMOD awards for excellence, and has guest lectured at leading universities and technology companies, including Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, Imperial College London, Technion, Meta (formerly Facebook), IBM Research, Microsoft Research and Samsung.

Beginning in January 2023, he will officially join the University of Toronto’s Department of Computer Science as an assistant professor – a role for which he has been recruiting students and postdoctoral fellows to a new lab for the past 6 months. He has spent the past 3 years as a research scientist in industry, including at Pliops from 2019 until early 2022. He frequently collaborates with industry partners, especially young start-ups, to keep his work grounded and helpful to real-world users. A former postdoctoral researcher at Harvard and the University of Copenhagen, he holds a Ph.D. and an MSc. in software development and technology from the IT University of Copenhagen.

Acting as strategic advisors to Speedb’s executives and board of directors, advisory board helps to define new features and markets for pioneering drop-in replacement for RocksDB, the standard Embedded key value store (KVS).

As the explosion of metadata impacts the performance of more databases, streaming applications, AI/ML, cybersecurity, analytics, and other scale-out deployments, the Speedb data engine enables developers to boost their metadata performance by switching from RocksDB to Speedb, a change that simply requires changing a few lines of code in their applications. Firm’s technology is available in either an enterprise edition, sold through partners such as Redis and others, or as an open source data engine available at GitHub and The Hive, Speedb’s open source community and dev site.

“We are honored to have attracted such an outstanding technical mind to Speedb’s strategic advisory team,” said Adi Gelvan, co-founder and CEO. “With Niv’s deep insights into the academics behind the problem we are solving with Speedb’s data engine technology, we will gain new insights on ways to approach users’ needs and innovative use cases that can propel our growth.“