Archived Events

Archived Events

Apr 23

2025

Apr 23 2025
Real-world Applications of Gen AI and Databases
Speaker:
Sailesh Krishnamurthy
System:
AlloyDB

In this talk we will explore the transformative potential of integrating databases and generative AI in enterprise applications. As Large Language Models (LLMs) are being rapidly adopted, it's clear that they need to interact with a plethora of other systems in the enterprise and agentic applications have emerged as the primary integration mechanism. Of these integration targets, databases are critical,... Read More

Apr 22

2025

Apr 22 2025
Architecture of Aerospike: Fast, Scalable, Geo-Replicated, Multi Model Database Supporting Strict Serializable Transactions
Speaker:
Srinivasan "Sesh" Seshadri
System:
Aerospike

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... Read More

Apr 21

2025

Apr 21 2025
[SQL Death] Gel: Replacing* SQL and Improving on the Relational Database Model
Speaker:
Michael Sullivan
System:
Gel

Gel (formerly EdgeDB) is a new database built around an evolution of the relational model that we call "graph-relational". In the graph-relational model, data is represented as strongly typed objects containing set-valued scalar properties and links to other objects. Missing values are represented in the language as empty sets (no NULL!), and have consistent semantics. The query language, EdgeQL, supports... Read More

Apr 14

2025

Apr 14 2025
[SQL Death] MariaDB’s Query Optimizer: A Multi-tool That Does Some Things Differently
Speaker:
Michael Widenius
System:
MariaDB
Video:
YouTube

MariaDB's query optimizer stems from MySQL's original implementation. It didn't come from a textbook, instead, it grew organically to meet the demands of the workloads we were targeting. This talk will discuss some of the uncommon choices we've made in MariaDB's new optimizer and what we've got (and lost) as a result. This talk is part of the SQL or... Read More

Apr 7

2025

Apr 7 2025
[SQL Death] OxQL: Oximeter Query Language
Speaker:
Ben Naecker
System:
OxQL
Video:
YouTube

Oxide Computer Company builds private cloud computers–co-designing hardware and software that works together. Our choice to own so much of the design was to enable systemic control and observability: we collect data from the smallest hardware sensor to the distributed control plane software. This talk covers the Oximeter Query Language (OxQL), the domain-specific language used to query and analyze this... Read More

Apr 1

2025

Apr 1 2025
Evolving Transactions in Oracle 23ai: New Advances in Concurrency and Consistency
Speakers:
Kishy Kumar , Akshay S Kulkarni
System:
Oracle
Video:
YouTube

Oracle Database 23ai introduces groundbreaking enhancements that redefine transaction processing, ensuring greater concurrency, flexibility, and efficiency. This talk will explore four key features that impact database transactions: Logical Replication of JSON Relational Duality Views, Lock-Free Reservations, Sessionless Transactions, and Value-based Concurrency Control. Learn how we logically and consistently replicate data stored in JSON Relational Duality Views to heterogenous target data... Read More

Mar 31

2025

Mar 31 2025
[SQL Death] StarRocks Query Optimizer
Speaker:
Kaisen Kang
System:
StarRocks
Video:
YouTube

StarRocks is a C++ analytical database that handles large-scale, high-concurrency, low-latency OLAP queries. In this presentation, Kaisen Kang, Tech Lead of the StarRocks Query Team, will provide an in-depth look at the StarRocks optimizer, the key optimizations, and design choices. The talk will focus on two key areas: Key Optimizations – A deep dive into three representative optimizations: Multi-left join... Read More

Mar 24

2025

Mar 24 2025
[SQL Death] PRQL: Pipelined Relational Query Language
Speaker:
Tobias Brandt
System:
PRQL
Video:
YouTube

The past 50 years have seen a great evolution in programming languages — except in the world of databases. There, SQL still reigns supreme; but is it a shark, enduring due to its perfection, or a dinosaur, one impact away from extinction? We argue that SQL is an amalgamation of both: relational algebra — the shark; and the language —... Read More

Mar 18

2025

Mar 18 2025
Building Novel Abstractions for a Declarative Cloud (Tianyu Li)
Speaker:
Tianyu Li

As the cloud evolves in capability, it has also become increasingly complex and difficult to program. New abstractions are necessary to ensure next-generation cloud applications are correct, simple, and efficient. In this talk, I will first describe Resilient Composition, a new abstraction that ensures fault-tolerance in applications composed from independent, distributed components. The key insight is to rely on atomic,... Read More

Mar 17

2025

Mar 17 2025
[SQL Death] Malloy: A Modern Open Source Language for Analyzing, Transforming, and Modeling Data
Speaker:
Lloyd Tabb
System:
Malloy
Video:
YouTube

In software we express our ideas through tools. In data, those tools think in rectangles. From spreadsheets to the data warehouses, to do any analytical calculation, you must first go through a rectangle.. Forcing data through a rectangle shapes the way we solve problems (for example, dimensional fact tables, OLAP Cubes). But really, most Data isn’t rectangular. Most data exists... Read More