What does it take to add custom data types and indexes to a database that was never designed for them? Over the past year, we built an extensibility framework for MySQL — and discovered, one by one, every place the codebase assumes it knows all the types that will ever exist. This talk walks through the design decisions that survived... Read More

GPUs have evolved into powerful, cost-efficient engines for general-purpose parallel compute. This talk introduces Sirius, a GPU-native SQL engine developed in partnership between UW-Madison and NVIDIA. Sirius enables drop-in GPU acceleration for DuckDB and other SQL databases, without changing the user interface. By treating the GPU as the primary execution engine, Sirius achieves strong performance by leveraging the massive compute... Read More