About
Grant is the founder of Hornetlabs Technology, supporting Highgo Software, where he leads the PostgreSQL development team, collaborating across North America and China. He also serves as the Secretary of the International Consultant Committee for the PostgreSQL China Association and acts as the Organizer & Asia Liaison at PostgresConf.
Before founding Hornetlabs, Grant spent over a decade at Alcatel-Lucent (Nokia), gaining deep expertise in high availability, real-time telecommunications, database technologies, and Unix/Linux programming.
Under his leadership, the Highgo team also launched the IvorySQL product, an open-source database featuring Oracle compatibility built on PostgreSQL, now available at IvorySQL.org.
Grant Zhou has presented the following presentations
Introducing SynchDB: Open-Source Synchronization Across Heterogeneous Databases with PostgreSQL
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Seattle 2024
Seamless Integration for Modern Database Ecosystems and Bridging Data Silos
presented by Grant Zhou
As organizations increasingly manage diverse data ecosystems, ensuring seamless synchronization across heterogeneous databases is more important than ever.
We are excited to announce the open-source release of SynchDB at this conference. SynchDB is a powerful PostgreSQL extension designed to simplify data synchronization from heterogeneous databases such as MySQL, Oracle, and...
more Wed 6 2024 Ops
Serverless Postgres Study and Practice
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Silicon Valley 2023
Discussing the concept of serverless computing and the Neon serverless open source solution
presented by Grant Zhou
In this talk, I will be discussing the concept of serverless computing and how it's changing the way we develop applications. We will dive into serverless applications, including an introduction to Neon and its architecture. I will walk you through how Neon is implemented using code and demonstrate a few use cases. By the end of this talk, you will have a better understanding of serverless comp...
more Fri 21 2023 Dev
IvorySQL - An Open Source Oracle-compatible Database Based on PostgreSQL
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PostgresWorld Webinars 2022
presented by Grant Zhou
There are many users who need to migrate their applications from Oracle to the open source Postgres, but in order to support the new database, users often need to re-develop the application, which is inconvenient. If there is a database based on Postgres and compatible with most Oracle syntax and functions, it will be too convenient for customers. However, the official Postgres project will no...
more Dev
Dialogue program
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Beijing 2019
Dialogue program
presented by Joshua Drake, Oleg Bartunov, Xiao Jun Zheng, Grant Zhou, and Michael Meskes
Traditional Dialogue Program
Thu 4 2019 Main
PostgreSQL Practices in China
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Postgres Conference
An overview of the PostgreSQL in China, the Community and China PostgreSQL Association organizations
presented by Grant Zhou
I will give the Community an overview of the PostgreSQL ecosystems in China, and introduce the COPU, China PostgreSQL Association organizations to the community for the connections to China. Also, I will present the PostgreSQL technical practices and trends in China. China PostgreSQL Association welcomes PostgreSQL contributors, corporations to extend their influences to China and the Associati...
more Thu 21 2019 Use Cases