Events: firebolt

Events: firebolt

Nov 17

2025

04:30pm EST
Nov 17 2025
[Future Data] Why Powering User Facing Applications on Iceberg is Hard
Speaker:
Benjamin Wagner
System:
Firebolt
Video:
YouTube

Firebolt is a Postgres compliant analytical database built for low-latency, high-concurrency analytics. These applications are usually powered by our fully managed storage and metadata layers. They support efficient caching and indexing, all while having multi-writer consistency. More recently, we’ve been investing heavily into our support for Apache Iceberg. Iceberg is not built to serve these types of low-latency applications. This... Read More

Dec 13

2021

04:30pm EST
Dec 13 2021
[Vaccination 2021] How We Build Firebolt (Benjamin Wagner)
Speaker:
Benjamin Wagner
System:
Firebolt
Video:
YouTube

Data-driven companies are increasingly building customer-facing analytics products. These workloads demand lower latency, higher concurrency, and more predictable query performance than ever before - demands that traditional data warehouses struggle with. In this talk, Benjamin explains how Firebolt is designed to welcome this new generation of data challenges. This talk is part of the Vaccination Database (Second Dose) Tech Talk... Read More