Multigres is an adaptation of Vitess for PostgreSQL that enables horizontal scaling and enterprise-grade operational capabilities for Postgres deployments. The system employs a layered proxy architecture with MultiGateway for query routing and MultiPooler for connection pooling, allowing organizations to manage large distributed database clusters while maintaining PostgreSQL compatibility. Key features include modeless connection pooling that works as if you're directly... Read More

We present Floe, a SQL query service designed for modern data lakehouse architectures. Floe combines three core components: FloeSQL, a compute engine for executing sophisticated SQL over open table formats; Floecat, an open-source catalog-of-catalogs that unifies metadata across Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake ecosystems; and Floescan, an indexing service that enables fine-grained data skipping within Parquet files. Floe is motivated... Read More

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

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