Speaker:

Ippokratis Pandis

Date:

Wed Nov 19, 2025 @ 02:00pm EST

Date:

Wed Nov 19, 2025

Time:

02:00pm EST

Location:

https://cmu.zoom.us/j/99872195806?pwd=sbaUDNmna2SZEHmqX8ANZW16Sygooy.1Zoom

Title:

Evolving Databases for the Cloud and AI era

System:

Databricks

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Talk Info:

In this presentation, we are going to talk about Lakebase, a vision for the next generation of cloud-based agent-enabled OLTP systems. After the dramatic transformation of analytics (OLAP) platforms over the past one to two decades—with innovations such as columnar storage, vectorized execution, streaming, and the Lakehouse architecture—we argue that databases (OLTP) are now at an inflection point. We will explore how cloud-native infrastructure, new workload requirements, and the rise of AI are reshaping what transactional systems must deliver. Lakebase extends the key principles that made the Lakehouse successful—decoupled compute and storage, open formats, and cross-engine interoperability—to OLTP workloads, enabling a modern, scalable, and open architecture designed for the cloud and AI era.

Bio:

Ippokratis Pandis is a Distinguished Engineer at Databricks with a background in database systems. He spent over a decade helping shape Amazon Redshift as VP/Distinguished Engineer at AWS, and before that worked on Cloudera Impala and IBM DB2 BLU. He holds a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University on multicore transaction processing and has contributed to both industry and academic communities around large-scale data management. He is currently the President of HPTS and served as General Chair of SIGMOD 2023.