Speaker:

Srinivasan "Sesh" Seshadri

Date:

Tue Apr 22, 2025 @ 12:00pm EDT

Date:

Tue Apr 22, 2025

Time:

12:00pm EDT

Location:

8115 GHC

Title:

Architecture of Aerospike: Fast, Scalable, Geo-Replicated, Multi Model Database Supporting Strict Serializable Transactions

System:

Aerospike

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Talk Info:

Aerospike is a fast, scalable database that supports multiple data models such as a key value store with complex objects, graphs and vectors. Aerospike supports synchronous replication within a cluster to guarantee linearizability. It also supports asynchronous replication across clusters for disaster recovery with minimal overhead to normal transaction processing. Finally, Aerospike supports ACID transactions and guarantees strict serializability.

In this talk, we will describe the architecture of Aerospike and some of the key design decisions that have enabled Aerospike to maintain a very high level of performance and yet scale to billions of records while guaranteeing the highest level of transaction correctness while supporting multiple data models.

Zoom: https://cmu.zoom.us/my/jignesh

Bio:

Sesh is a veteran technology leader with over three decades of experience spanning academia, startups, and large companies. Sesh is an accomplished expert in databases with over 50 academic publications and more than a dozen patents in this area. He is also a leading expert in ML especially as applied to Search and Internet Advertising. Sesh has been an Assistant Professor at IIT Bombay, founded and led multiple startups to an exit in the Silicon Valley as well as India, and finally has been a senior leader at companies such as Google, Target, Yahoo, and Lucent Technologies. Sesh has a B.Tech, Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and both an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.