Events

Events

Oct 19

2026

04:30pm EDT
Oct 19 2026
[Andy at Sea] Inside the Guts of FloeScan and other Interesting Design Magic
Speaker:
Thomas Kejser
System:
Floe

The Floe team came from on-premise databases: We wrote our own userspace, collaborative, task-based kernel. We made a database without a buffer pool and created a subsystem to issue I/O in under 1000 cycles/request, outperforming io_uring. Our execution engine maximises joins per second and runs SQL queries with 5MB of query text to completion. Of course, we needed a query... Read More

Oct 26

2026

04:30pm EDT

Nov 16

2026

04:30pm EDT
Nov 16 2026
[Andy at Sea] Turso: An SQLite-compatible, Open-Contribution RDBMS
Speaker:
Mikaƫl Francoeur
System:
Turso

In this presentation, we will discuss the history, architecture, testing, and challenges of the Turso database management system. Turso is an SQLite-compatible, open-contribution embedded database built in Rust. It has 300+ committers and 24K GitHub stars. Its feature set includes an async architecture for backends like io_uring and IOCP, and a multi-writer mode with a Hekaton-style implementation and a logical... Read More

Nov 23

2026

04:30pm EDT