In this episode of the Geek Narrator Podcast, host Kaivalya is joined by Jeremy Taylor and Malcolm Sparks from Juxt to explore XTDB, an immutable database designed to handle complex historical and financial data with precision. They delve into the architecture, internal mechanics, and use cases while discussing the importance of immutability.

This episode covers everything you need to know about XTDB and its capabilities. Whether you're a developer interested in databases or someone curious about data management and history tracking, this discussion offers invaluable insights.

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

02:51 Challenges with General Purpose Databases

11:50 XTDB: A New Approach to Databases

31:56 Understanding Kafka and XTDB Integration

36:06 Querying and Indexing in XTDB

40:31 Temporal Data Management and Use Cases

54:52 Deployment and User Experience

XTDB: https://xtdb.com/

XTDB Github: https://github.com/xtdb/xtdb

Juxt: https://www.juxt.pro/

Juxt Github: https://github.com/juxt

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