Vaccination Database Talks (First Dose) — Spring 2021

The previous year was the worst in modern times. But just when we were at our most crestfallen and about to give up, there emerged a new hope. The scientific breakthrough of rapid vaccine development will lead us out of the darkness into a new era. As children of the enlightenment, our moral duty is to take full advantage of our new lease on life and spend our time discussing the latest trends in databases.

The "Vaccination Database Tech Talks" is an on-line seminar series at Carnegie Mellon University with leading developers and researchers of database systems. Each speaker will present the implementation details of their respective systems and examples of the technical challenges that 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

This seminar series is held in conjunction with the following groups at Carnegie Mellon:

Schedule

	Date	Speaker	Talk Title
Feb 1	Feb 1	Daniel Abadi	SLOG: Serializable, Low-latency, Geo-replicated Transactions
Feb 8	Feb 8	David Daly	Performance Testing at MongoDB
Feb 15	Feb 15	Kishore Gopalakrishna	Star-Tree Index: Space-Time Trade Off in OLAP
Feb 22	Feb 22	Marco Slot	Citus: Distributed PostgreSQL as an Extension
Mar 1	Mar 1	Gian Merlino	Inside Apache Druid’s Storage and Query Engine
Mar 8	Mar 8	Adam Kocoloski	Novel Design Choices in Apache CouchDB
Mar 15	Mar 15	Kyle Bernhardy	HarperDB’s Data Storage Journey: From File System to LMDB
Mar 22	Mar 22	Lin Ma	NoisePage: The Self-Driving Database Management System
Mar 29	Mar 29	Badrish Chandramouli	FASTER: Efficient State Management for the Modern Edge-Cloud
Apr 5	Apr 5	Hossein Ahmadi + Aleksandras Surna	Query Processing in Google BigQuery
Apr 12	Apr 12	Viktor Leis	LeanStore: In-Memory Data Management Beyond Main Memory
Apr 19	Apr 19	Andrei Gorine	Deterministic Database Management in Mission-Critical Applications
Apr 26	Apr 26	Joyo Victor	Separation of Storage and Compute for Transactions and Analytics
May 3	May 3	Jia Shi	Under the Hood of an Exadata Transaction – How Did We Harness the Power of Persistent Memory?
May 10	May 10	Paul Dix	The Design of InfluxDB IOx: An In-Memory Columnar Database Written in Rust with Apache Arrow
May 17	May 17	Malte Schwarzkopf	Fast Materialized Views for Fast Websites
May 24	May 24	Sir Martin Kersten	MonetDB: Scale Up Before You Scale Out
Jun 7	Jun 7	Robert Haas	PostgreSQL Optimizer Methodology
Jun 14	Jun 14	Eugene Wu	Systems for Human Data Interaction