High-performance database laboratory affiliated with Key Laboratory of Data Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Ministry of Education (DEKE) and The Department of Information and Computer Renmin University. High-performance database laboratory led by the Professor Wang Shan, now has seven teachers (a professor, four associate professor, two lecturers), doctoral students and more than 20 graduate students, undergraduates several.

High-performance database lab's goal is "to data processing capabilities of the computer system to the extreme" and thus able to respond to future "big data" opportunities and challenges. Laboratory research interests include: parallel and distributed databases, in-memory database, the database machine, unstructured data management, data management uncertainty, trusted network and distributed systems, information retrieval. Laboratory undertaken dozens of national and provincial research projects, including nuclear high base special issue of major, major special issue 863 project, the National Natural Science Foundation projects.

Laboratory attention to industry, academia, research combination, to maintain close cooperation with domestic and foreign industry, research work has been output to several companies, including: NPC gold warehouse database company, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., NEC, Hewlett-Packard HP, EMC company and so on.

High-performance database laboratory not only provide students a good learning and research environment, but also provide students with many opportunities for international exchange, in recent years there have been student to the Georgia Institute of Technology School (GIT), Budapest, Hungary CORVINUS University, Germany L3S research The other foreign institutions to access and practice.