Seven Databases in Seven Weeks Seminar — Fall 2014

Strap yourself in kids, because we have an amazing line-up of technical talks coming to Carnegie Mellon University in Fall 2014. Seven Databases in Seven Weeks is a semester-long seminar series with the leading developers of NoSQL and NewSQL database management systems. Each speaker will present the implementation details of their respective systems and examples of the technical challenges that they faced when working with real-world customers. If you only attend one seminar series this semester, make sure it's this one!

Videos will be posted after each talk.

  • Time: Thursdays @ 12:00pm ET
  • Location: CIC - 4th floor (ISTC Panther Hollow Room)
  • Organizers: Andy Pavlo

Schedule

Date Speaker Talk Title Video
Sep 11MemSQL Sep 11 Ankur Goyal MemSQL: A Distributed In-Memory SQL Database
Sep 25SQL Server Sep 25 Michael Zwilling Microsoft SQL Server’s In-Memory OLTP Architecture and Capabilities
Oct 2NuoDB Oct 2 Seth Proctor (CTO, NuoDB) Current and Future Challenges in Data Management
Oct 9MongoDB Oct 9 Andrew Morrow MongoDB: Reinventing the Database Landscape
Oct 16Tokutek Oct 16 Bradley C. Kuszmaul State-of-the-Art Database Index Maintenance
Oct 30FoundationDB Oct 30 Ori Herrnstadt The Future of Databases is Not a Database CANCELLED
Nov 13VoltDB Nov 13 Ryan Betts VoltDB: Faster is Better

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