Apache Arrow is a multi-language toolbox for accelerated data interchange and in-memory processing. With the aim to make the data ecosystem modular and connected, Wes will talk about Apache Arrow’s vision for a future more unified data analytics ecosystem. In this talk, Wes will discuss the underlying interfaces and protocols powering the project, trends in the Apache Arrow ecosystem, and... Read More

Google BigQuery is a serverless, scalable, and cost effective cloud data warehouse. Having evolved from internal Google infrastructure (Dremel), BigQuery is unique in a number of dimensions. In this talk, we provide a look at some of the key architectural aspects of BigQuery and how it provides a true serverless and multi-tenant warehousing solution to customers. We then provide an... Read More

Many of us have devoted decades of our lives to making databases faster, cheaper, more scalable, more reliable... much of which is completely irrelevant to the average developer. The main obstacle for the next generation of app developers is convenience. The "serverless revolution" and architectures like Jamstack demonstrate a desire for life without a backend team, yet current technologies in... Read More

This talk is part of the Vaccination Database (Second Dose) Tech Talk Seminar Series. Zoom Link: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/95002789605 (Passcode 982149) Read More

Fluree is an immutable RDF graph database that, beyond performing typical modern database functions, emphasizes security, trust, provenance, privacy, and interoperability. Fluree is open source under the AGPL license and is built on Clojure and open W3C standards. Fluree natively supports JSON and JSON-LD and can leverage/enforce any RDF ontology. The Fluree system consists of a cryptographically-secure ledger to handle... Read More

Vertica is an OLAP database, originally designed when a "beefy" server had 16GB of memory and 8 CPUs, and a 5TB data warehouse was considered to be HUGE. A lot has changed since then. Though CPUs have gotten only a bit faster there are more cores on a die. Applications are commonly run in virtualized environments these days. Data volumes... Read More

Pinecone is a fully managed vector database that makes it easy to add vector search to production applications. Learn how we combine state-of-the-art vector indexing with infrastructure orchestration to provide high-performance vector search at any scale. This talk is part of the Vaccination Database (Second Dose) Tech Talk Seminar Series. Zoom Link: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/95002789605 (Passcode 982149) Read More

A growing fraction of applications today, from basic business processing to machine learning, are data-intensive: they need to correctly process and produce massive datasets that are too large for any human to inspect. These applications pose many systems challenges, from programming interfaces, to monitoring and debugging (how can a human make sure these applications are working well?), to performance. I’ll... Read More

Starburst unlocks the value of data by making it fast and easy to analyze anywhere. Starburst queries data across any database, making it instantly actionable for organizations. With Starburst, teams can lower the total cost of their infrastructure and analytics investments, use the tools that work best for their business, and our open source Trino roots prevent data lock-in. Trusted... Read More

In 2013, eight years ago, Amazon Web Services revolutionized the data warehousing industry by launching Amazon Redshift, the first fully managed, petabyte-scale cloud data warehouse solution. Amazon Redshift made it simple and cost-effective to efficiently analyze large volumes of data using existing business intelligence tools. This launch was a significant leap from the traditional on-premise data warehousing solutions which were... Read More