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QuasarDB: Internals, What Makes a Database Fast? (Edouard Alligand)

Speaker:
Edouard Alligand
Date:
Thu Nov 2, 2017 @ 12:00pm EDT
Date:
Thu Nov 2, 2017
Time:
12:00pm EDT
Location:
CIC - 4th floor (ISTC Panther Hollow Room)
Title:
QuasarDB: Internals, What Makes a Database Fast?
System:
QuasarDB
Video:
YouTube

Talk Info:

QuasarDB is a scalable timeseries database that was designed to handle the extreme use cases one can find, for example, in market finance. In this talk we will see a couple of design and implementation decisions that were made to deliver the performance QuasarDB today delivers, especially regarding network communications, memory management and real-time aggregation.

Part of Time Series Database Lectures 2017 Seminar Series

Bio:

Edouard Alligand is the founder and CEO of QuasarDB. Edouard has a strong technical background with a heavy focus on kernel programming and system programming.