Speaker:

Ankur Goyal

Date:

Thu Sep 11, 2014 @ 12:00pm EDT

Date:

Thu Sep 11, 2014

Time:

12:00pm EDT

Location:

CIC - 4th floor (ISTC Panther Hollow Room)

Title:

MemSQL: A Distributed In-Memory SQL Database

System:

MemSQL

Video:

YouTube

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Talk Info:

This talk will cover the major architectural design decisions with discussion on specific technical details as well as the motivation behind the big decisions. We will cover lockfree, code generation, durability/replication, distributed query execution, and clustering in MemSQL. We will then discuss some of the new directions for the product.

Part of the “Seven Databases in Seven Weeks” Seminar Series: http://db.cs.cmu.edu/seminar2014

Bio:

Ankur Goyal is the Director of Engineering at MemSQL. He is the team leader on developing horizontal scale-out capabilities for MemSQL's distributed in-memory database and also runs the forward deployed engineering team that is responsible for making customers successful with MemSQL. He specializes in distributed systems, compilers, and operating systems. Ankur studied computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and researched distributed data processing at Microsoft before joining MemSQL.

More Info: http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/SDI/2014/091114.html

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