The Architecture of a Geo-Distributed SQL Database
Presented by:
Jim Walker
Jim is a developer who has spent a large part of his career helping people understand complex, emerging technology. He is passionate about distributed systems, data and open source technologies. He is also a startup-aholic and loves building apps and new communities. He is currently the VP of Product Marketing at Cockroach Labs and has helped build companies like Hortonworks and CoreOS. Jim has a BS from the University of Illinois at Chicago, a MS from Carnegie Mellon University.
Join us for a deep dive into the internals of CockroachDB, an open source, distributed SQL database. In this technical presentation, Bill Kendall will cover the usage of Raft for consensus, the challenges of data distribution, distributed SQL execution, and how CockroachDB has solved some of the thornier challenges of distributed ACID transactions and SQL optimization.
- Date:
- 2020 April 15 10:00 UTC
- Duration:
- 1 h
- Room:
- Online
- Conference:
- Postgres Webinar Series
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- Track:
- Dev
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