Rafi Shamim
Software Engineer at Cockroach Labs
Rafi (he/him) started a career in backend software engineering six years ago. He has experience using distributed systems, creating microservice architectures, honing best practices for observability and incident response, and developing customer-facing features. In May 2019 he joined Cockroach Labs because he was excited to work on building a distributed SQL database.
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OLTP databases are specialized for serving high-throughput queries that read or write a small number of rows. Still, users often also expect good performance on analytic queries that read a lot of rows, like large scans, joins, or aggregations. This motivated us to seriously investigate how to improve the performance of these types of queries in CockroachDB, and to begin working on a new SQL ex...
