The Computing Podcast

Part 2: Yugabyte - Deep dive into a distributed SQL database

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Welcome to our 5rd episode. This is the second part of a two part series where go deep into the internals of Yugabyte with Karthik and Kannan. Yugabyte is a highly scalable and developer friendly open source distributed SQL database. Yugabyte is built by an Ex-Facebook team that wanted to bring what they learnt running one of the latest databases on the planet out into the open source world.

Learn more about how the shared-nothing architecture used by Yugabyte works and how the team build Postgres and other API layers on top of a highly-scalable document DB powered by their own fork of RocksDB.

Our guests for this episode are:  

  • Kannan Muthukkaruppan, Founder & President, Product Dev. @ Yugabyte 
  • Karthik Ranganathan, Founder & CTO @ YugaByte

    • Links:

    • Kudu: Storage for Fast Analytics on Fast Data - https://kudu.apache.org/kudu.pdf
    • Under the Hood: Building and open-sourcing RocksDB - https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/under-the-hood-building-and-open-sourcing-rocksdb/10151822347683920/
    • The Log-Structured Merge-Tree (LSM-Tree) - https://www.cs.umb.edu/~poneil/lsmtree.pdf
    • Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases - https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3035918.3056101
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