Tag: databases
Episode 504: Frank McSherry on Materialize
Frank McSherry, chief scientist at Materialize, talks about the Materialize streaming database, which supports real-time analytics by maintaining incremental views over streaming data. Host Akshay Manchale spoke with Frank about various ways in which analytical systems are built over streaming services today, pitfalls associated with those solutions, and how Materialize simplifies both the expression of […]
Episode 460: Evan Weaver on FaunaDB
Evan Weaver of Fauna discusses the Fauna distributed database. Host Felienne spoke with him about the database’s design and its properties, as well as the FQL query language and the different models it supports: document-based as well as relational. They discuss how Fauna deals with data manipulation with stored procedure-like functions, and how it guarantees […]
Episode 454: Thomas Richter on Postgres as an OLAP database
Thomas Richter, founder of Swarm64, discusses the internals of the Postgres open source database project. Host Adam Conrad spoke with Richter about an introduction to relational databases, comparisons of OLAP and OLTP structures, performance considerations, and advanced features of the Postgres architecture. This episode sponsored by O’Reilly. Related Links Swarm64 Postgres homepage A quick explanation […]
Episode 444: Tug Grall on Redis
Tug Grall of Redis Labs discusses Redis, its evolution over the years, and emerging use cases today. Host Akshay Manchale spoke with Tug about Redis’ fundamental data structures and their common uses, its module based ecosystem and Redis’ applicability in a wide range of applications beyond being a layer for caching data such as search, […]
Episode 433: Jay Kreps on ksqlDB
Jay Kreps, CEO and Co-Founder of Confluent discusses ksqlDB which is a SQL engine for data in Apache Kafka. Jay talks about stream processing, Kafka and how the data can now be queried with push/pull queries with ksqlDB, similar to a relational database. Jay discusses some of the similarities and differences between SQL databases and […]
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