David Kohn

R & D Engineer at Timescale DB

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David is a R & D Engineer at TimescaleDB, before that he was a Data Engineer at Moat Inc where he focused mostly on Postgres, how he got there from battery engineering and electrochemistry startups is a story too long for a short bio, but you can ask him if you'd like (it even involves PGConf!)

David Kohn has presented the following presentations

    David Kohn TOASTing an Elephant : Building a Custom Data Warehouse Using PostgreSQL at PGConf US 2017 [PgConf.US]

    presented by David Kohn


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    At Moat we add ~500 million rows each day to just a few tables in our data warehouse. Previously, we used Postgres for data for the last month (which takes ~15TB of disk), and we love its ability to handle concurrency and its cost compared to the commercial column-stores that we use for our historical data. By using a combination of composite-types, arrays and Postgres' TOAST mechanism we were ...

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