Database Building Blocks Seminar Series – Fall 2024
Like a hobo putting together a sandwich in a parking lot using discarded foods from multiple restaurants, many modern database management systems are comprised of composable building blocks. This modular approach enables system builders to spend less time building the banal but necessary components and instead leverage off-the-shelf software. This shift towards modularity also enhances maintainability and simplifies integration with other systems.
Given this, the Carnegie Mellon University Database Research Group is exploring this recent trend with the Building Blocks Seminar Series. Each speaker will present the implementation details of their respective systems and examples of the technical challenges they faced when working with real-world customers.
All talks are on-line and open to the public via Zoom. You do not need to be a current CMU student to attend. Random people off of the internet are especially welcome. Videos will be posted on the CMU-DB YouTube Channel after each talk.
- Time: Mondays @ 4:30pm ET
- Location: Zoom (Must Be Authenticated)
- Organizers: Andy Pavlo, Jignesh Patel, Sam Arch
Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Video | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 23 |
Sep 23 | Andrew Lamb | Apache Arrow DataFusion: A Fast, Embeddable, Modular Analytic Query Engine | |
Sep 30 |
Sep 30 | Andy Grove | Accelerating Apache Spark workloads with Apache DataFusion Comet | |
Oct 7 |
Oct 7 | Philippe Noël | ParadeDB – Postgres for Search and Analytics | |
Oct 21 |
Oct 21 | Luke Kim | Accelerating Data and AI with Spice.ai Open-Source Software | |
Oct 28 |
Oct 28 | Trent Hauck | Exon: A Built for Purpose Bioinformatics Database | |
Nov 4 |
Nov 4 | Mehmet Ozan Kabak | Towards “Unified” Compute Engines: Opportunities and Challenges | |
Nov 11 |
Nov 11 | Paul Dix | Building InfluxDB 3.0 with the FDAP Stack: Apache Flight, DataFusion, Arrow and Parquet | |
Nov 18 |
Nov 18 | Sean Smith | Biting the Bullet: Rebuilding GlareDB from the Ground Up | |
Dec 2 |
Dec 2 | Xuanwo | Apache OpenDAL: One Layer, All Storage | |
Dec 9 |
Dec 9 | Ruihang Xia | Implement, Integrate and Extend a Query Engine |
Other Seminars
- Database Building Blocks Seminar (2024)
- ML⇄DB Seminar Series (2023)
- ¡Databases! - A Database Seminar Series (2022)
- Vaccination Database Talks — Booster (2022)
- Vaccination Database Talks — Second Dose (2021)
- Vaccination Database Talks — First Dose (2021)
- Quarantine Database Tech Talks (2020)
- Hardware Accelerated Database Lectures (2018)
- Time Series Database Lectures (2017)
- The Databaseology Lectures (2015)
- Seven Databases in Seven Weeks (2014)
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