Daniel Abadi

Daniel Abadi is a professor of computer science with an appointment in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies.

His research interests involve database system architecture and implementation, especially at the intersection with scalable and distributed systems. Abadi is widely recognized for the development of the storage and query execution engines of the C-Store (column-oriented database) prototype, as well as his HadoopDB research on fault tolerant scalable analytical database systems.