TEL AVIV, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Speedb (www.speedb.io), the company behind the Speedb data engine, a drop-in replacement for RocksDB, named acclaimed data structures researcher Niv Dayan to its advisory board.

Niv Dayan 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 five registered patents, has authored 19 peer-reviewed papers, two of which won ACM SIGMOD awards for excellence, and has guest lectured at the world’s leading universities and technology companies, including Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, Imperial College London, Technion, Meta (formerly Facebook), IBM Research, Microsoft Research and Samsung...