DATE: Thursday, November 2, 2017
TIME:12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
PLACE: RMCIC Panther Hollow Conference Room, 4th Floor

SPEAKER: Edouard Alligand, QuasarDB

TITLE: QuasarDB: Internals, What Makes a Database Fast?

ABSTRACT:
QuasarDB is a scalable timeseries database that was designed to handle the extreme use cases one can find, for example, in market finance. In this talk we will see a couple of design and implementation decisions that were made to deliver the performance QuasarDB today delivers, especially regarding network communications, memory management and real-time aggregation.

BIO:
Edouard Alligand is the founder and CEO of QuasarDB. Edouard has a strong technical background with a heavy focus on kernel programming and system programming.

SEMINAR HOST: Andy Pavlo

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