[Building Blocks] Towards “Unified” Compute Engines: Opportunities and Challenges (Mehmet Ozan Kabak)
The architecture diagram of a typical data and AI infrastructure setup often features a primary compute engine (e.g., Apache Spark) alongside an array of supplementary tools for observability, AI integration, streaming support, memory management, interactivity, and more. While this modular architecture can be effective, it also introduces challenges around performance bottlenecks, maintenance costs, and integration complexity. In this talk, we will explore whether it is possible to simplify such complex architectures by addressing some of the core engine-level limitations that... Read More
Snowflake, and why the Cloud reshaped the analytics industry
Snowflake was the first data warehouse designed from scratch to take advantage of Cloud economics. We'll talk about what that means, why it was such a big deal, and how its design differs from the approaches taken by similar systems. Stay until the end for some bonus content on how Snowflake is bringing stream processing into the DBMS. Zoom link: https://cmu.zoom.us/my/jignesh Read More
[Building Blocks] Building InfluxDB 3.0 with the FDAP Stack: Apache Flight, DataFusion, Arrow and Parquet (Paul Dix)
This talk is part of the Database Building Blocks Seminar Series. Zoom Link: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/95283696582 (Passcode 787637) Read More
AI Vector Search in the Oracle Database
AI Vector Search in Oracle Database is a new, transformative way to intelligently, efficiently, and accurately search business data by using AI techniques to search data by semantics, or meaning. With the inclusion of a new VECTOR data type, new approximate search indexes, and new SQL operators and extensions, enterprise companies can quickly and easily leverage AI Vector Search to build modern, generative AI applications in just a few lines of SQL. And with this simplicity comes power, as AI... Read More
Engineering Your Own Path: From University to Universal Impact (Camille Fournier)
SCS Distinguished Alumni / Bruce Nelson Distinguished Lecture Read More
[Building Blocks] GlareDB (Sean Smith)
This talk is part of the Database Building Blocks Seminar Series. Zoom Link: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/95283696582 (Passcode 787637) Read More
[Building Blocks] GreptimeDB (Ruihang Xia)
This talk is part of the Database Building Blocks Seminar Series. Zoom Link: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/95283696582 (Passcode 787637) Read More
[Building Blocks] Apache OpenDAL / DataBend (Xuanwo)
This talk is part of the Database Building Blocks Seminar Series. Zoom Link: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/95283696582 (Passcode 787637) Read More