On this Screaming in the Cloud Replay, Corey is joined by Nipun Agarwal, Senior Vice President of MySQL HeatWave Development at Oracle, to discuss the release of MySQL HeatWave and how it will benefit users among the sea of database offerings on AWS. Nipun reveals why Oracle decided to develop HeatWave, how HeatWave is providing meaningful cost savings to users, and how HeatWave has been optimized for the cloud. Nipun explains how they’ve lowered the barriers to entry for new users of HeatWave, and Oracle’s focus on implementing customer feedback when developing new offerings.

Show Highlights

(0:00) Intro

(0:55) The Duckbill Group sponsor read

(1:28) The significance of HeatWave coming to AWS

(2:20) What is MySQL HeatWave?

(5:13) What jumped out to Corey during his conversations with Nipun on Oracle

(8:40) What’s “under the hood” of MySQL HeatWave

(14:12) How Oracle built out its pricing for MySQL HeatWave

(16:41) Why MySQL HeatWave doesn’t show up on AWS bills

(21:27) The Duckbill Group sponsor read

(22:09) Oracle’s historical customer base and the company’s credit system

(24:30) The point behind MySQL HeatWave

(27:51) How MySQL HeatWave runs

(33:53) Where you can find more from Nipun and Oracle

About Nipun Agarwal

Nipun Agarwal is a Senior Vice President, MySQL HeatWave and Advanced Development, Oracle. His interests include distributed data processing, machine learning, cloud technologies and security. Nipun was part of the Oracle Database team where he introduced a number of new features. He has been awarded over 170 patents., Nipun Agarwal is Senior Vice President of MySQL Database & HeatWave Development. He leads a global engineering organization responsible for Oracle’s MySQL innovations that enable organizations to use a single database for both transactional and analytical workloads. His interests include data processing, distributed systems, machine learning, cloud computing and security. Prior to his current position, Nipun was with Oracle Labs and the Oracle Database team, where he introduced a number of new features. He has been awarded over 175 patents.

Links

• Oracle: https://oracle.com
• MySQL HeatWave info: https://www.oracle.com/mysql/ 
• MySQL Service on AWS and OCI login (Oracle account required): https://cloud.mysql.com

Original Episode

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud/heatwave-and-the-latest-evolution-of-mysql-with-nipun-agarwal/

Sponsor

The Duckbill Group: duckbillgroup.com