Archived Events

Archived Events

Nov 14

2022

Nov 14 2022
[¡Databases! 2022] Gaia: Direct Database Access without Database APIs (Tengiz Kharatishvili)
Speaker:
Tengiz Kharatishvili
System:
Gaia
Video:
YouTube

GAIA database is an unusual engine - it offers a direct access model and supports memory pointers, applications are able to create and navigate complex data structures like graphs with no or very little API overhead: the engine implements transactional memory view with full transactional durability - whatever you do in memory gets captures and persistent in an efficient transparent... Read More

Nov 10

2022

Nov 10 2022
EdgeDB: Replacing SQL and Improving on the Relational Database Model (Michael Sullivan)
Speaker:
Michael Sullivan
System:
EdgeDB

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 convenient fetching... Read More

Nov 7

2022

Nov 7 2022
[¡Databases! 2022] RisingWave: Reinventing(?!) Stream Processing in the Cloud Era (Yingjun Wu)
Speaker:
Yingjun Wu
System:
RisingWave
Video:
YouTube

RisingWave is a cloud-native streaming database. Different from existing streaming systems, RisingWave fully leverages the modern cloud infrastructure to achieve high performance and scalability at a low cost. In this talk, I will walk you through the detailed designs of RisingWave, and discuss how we adopt some old ideas to build a next-generation streaming system. This talk is part of... Read More

Oct 31

2022

Oct 31 2022
[¡Databases! 2022] Architecture Insight of OceanBase: A Distributed SQL Database (Charlie Yang)
Speaker:
Charlie Yang
System:
OceanBase
Video:
YouTube

OceanBase Database, is an open-source, distributed Hybrid Transactional/Real-time Operational Analytics (HTAP) database management system that has set new world records in both the TPC-C and TPC-H benchmark tests. OceanBase Database starts from 2010, and it's built from scratch by Alibaba & Ant Group, it provides features of an enterprise-level database, including the native distributed architecture, financial-grade high availability, transparent horizontal... Read More

Oct 24

2022

Oct 24 2022
[¡Databases! 2022] Neon: Serverless PostgreSQL! (Heikki Linnakangas)
Speaker:
Heikki Linnakangas
System:
Neon
Video:
YouTube

Neon is a Postgres cloud service that separates compute and storage. Separation of compute and storage makes it possible to scale the components independently, and instant startup without a lengthy restore. Amazon Aurora pioneered the separation of compute and storage for OLTP databases. Neon uses the same concept of applying the WAL stream to reconstruct database state in the storage... Read More

Oct 10

2022

Oct 10 2022
[¡Databases! 2022] Litestream: Making Single-Node Deployments Cool Again (Ben Johnson)
Speaker:
Ben Johnson
System:
Litestream
Video:
YouTube

SQLite has long been regarded as an incredibly reliable, fast, & easy-to-use database in the world of personal devices such as laptops & phones. However, it's never gained much traction in the world of web applications because it's built as a single-node database. Litestream adds simple, cheap streaming replication to SQLite to expand the use cases that the database can... Read More

Oct 3

2022

Oct 3 2022
[¡Databases! 2022] Odyssey: PostgreSQL Connection Proxy! (Andrey Borodin)
Speaker:
Andrey Borodin
System:
PostgreSQL
Video:
YouTube

In hypertext world connection proxies is a must for many decades now. And in many cases this idea works for databases too! Today almost any busy OLTP Postgres instance have to use some sort of proxy: old but gold PgBouncer, scalable Odyssey or entirely new SPQR\PgCat. In this talk I'll discuss what allows proxies to be useful, what Postgres hackers... Read More

Sep 26

2022

Sep 26 2022
[¡Databases! 2022] Rockset: High Performance Queries with Dynamically Typed SQL (Ben Hannel)
Speaker:
Ben Hannel
System:
Rockset
Video:
YouTube

This talk is part of the ¡Databases! – A Database Seminar Series. Zoom Link: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/94466872009 (Passcode 424050) Read More

Sep 19

2022

Sep 19 2022
[¡Databases! 2022] Snowflake Iceberg Tables, Streaming Ingest, and Unistore! (Ashish Motivala)
Speakers:
Nileema Shingte , Tyler Jones, Ashish Motivala
System:
Snowflake
Video:
YouTube

Why settle for 1 cool db talk when you can get 3? Snowflake is pushing the boundaries of what a unified cloud data platform can do. Today we'll talk about how Snowflake can be combined with open standards like Apache Iceberg, hard tech to stream data into Snowflake and bring transactional and analytical workloads together in a single platform. Apache... Read More

Sep 12

2022

Sep 12 2022
[¡Databases! 2022] Umbra: A Disk-Based System with In-Memory Performance (Thomas Neumann)
Speaker:
Thomas Neumann
System:
Umbra
Video:
YouTube

The increases in main-memory sizes over the last decade have made pure in-memory database systems feasible, and in-memory systems offer unprecedented performance. However, DRAM is still relatively expensive, and the growth of main-memory sizes has slowed down. In contrast, the prices for SSDs have fallen substantially in the last years, and their read bandwidth has increased to gigabytes per second.... Read More