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Sebastian loves to play with different technologies and bring them together to build creative solutions. In his role as Solution Architect at Swarm64 he helps customers to performance-optimize their PostgreSQL and understand how to fit Swarm64 DA into their environments.


    Sebastian Dressler Configuring PostgreSQL for Faster Analytic Query Performance

    presented by Sebastian Dressler


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    Are you using PostgreSQL for query-intensive applications like reporting and charting, analytics (OLAP/HTAP), or data warehousing?

    Join us on February 4 to learn straightforward ways to get the best possible query performance from PostgreSQL.

    Swarm64 Solution Architect, Sebastian Dressler, will cover proven PostgreSQL configuration tuning best practices that have helped PostgreSQL users s...

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    Thu 4 2021 Ops
    Sebastian Dressler Introduction to PostgreSQL ColumnStore Indexes

    presented by Sebastian Dressler


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    Join us on September 29 for a 45-minute introduction to ColumnStore indexes in PostgreSQL.

    Swarm64 DA 5.0 introduces ColumnStore indexes for PostgreSQL, which can be defined for any table and greatly reduce I/O to speed up query performance. They are ideal for data warehousing and analytics workloads.

    Swarm64 Solution Architect, Sebastian Dressler, will cover the following:

    • How C...
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    Tue 29 2020 Dev
    Sebastian Dressler PostgreSQL Parallelism Do’s and Don’ts

    presented by Sebastian Dressler


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    Join us on September 9 for a 45-minute webinar on parallelism in PostgreSQL.

    PostgreSQL can apply parallel processing to speed up query performance. But the PostgreSQL query planner and internals are complex, making it a challenge to predict how parallel processing will affect different queries.

    In this webinar, you’ll learn parallelism best practices to maximize your PostgreSQL query pe...

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    Wed 9 2020 Dev
    Andrew Ellicott Sebastian Dressler FPGA: an Easier Path to Parallelism for Postgres?
    It’s easier than you think! Accelerating query performance 55x with FPGA

    presented by Andrew Ellicott and Sebastian Dressler


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    Amazon recently announced FPGA acceleration for Redshift, most clouds now offer FPGA-equipped instances, and FPGA prices are dropping.

    Is it time for you to consider hardware acceleration for Postgres?

    Adding an FPGA processor to your free, open source Postgres server, along with the Swarm64 FPGA extension for Postgres, enhan...

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    Wed 19 2020 Ops