DFW BigData

The Architecture of a Distributed Database for High Performance Applications

December 6, 2012 · 6:30 PM
Pariveda Solutions Inc

**Pizza and drinks will be provided. Social and Food is at 6:30pm. Food and seating are first come, first serve.

Topic

Legacy RDBMS' create difficult challenges for Big Data applications. But because of that, a common assumption is that SQL doesn't scale. The truth is, SQL isn't the problem, it’s the assumptions behind the legacy RDBMS’ that are.

In this session, learn how NewSQL database technology provides an entirely new architectural approach to query resolution by moving the query to the data, not the data to the query. This architecture makes it possible to scale a single database across nodes while supporting massive concurrency and high performance, all with full relational functionality, transactional consistency (ACID), and seamless deployment.

Our Speaker

Filip Szymanski is Head of Products at Clustrix responsible for the Database product line, with over 10 years software product management and product marketing experience. He leads global go-to-market and roadmap strategy that drives revenue acceleration for Clustrix products and solutions. Before joining Clustrix he was Director of Products at HP, responsible for establishing HP Software as the leader in Application Lifecycle Management with groundbreaking functionality for Development & Quality Assurance. Prior to HP he was at Mercury Interactive in a Technical Sales role where he enabled the Sales organization to sell higher revenue products and services. Filip holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara University.

6:30pm food + social -- 7:00pm meetup starts

About the Location

Both the entrance and parking is available in the parking garage below the building. Enter the tenant (not visitor)parking garage from the west side of the building, off of Howell St. (Street View: http://goo.gl/maps/9Cgz). Use the east elevators up to the 2nd floor, Suite 220 (just follow the posted signs). It's directly above Christie's. Follow the signs. NOTE: you can enter the building from the atrium door or the parking garage (not McKinney Ave). Make sure to use the EAST elevator shaft, or you won't find us.

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Anthony Tomasic

Transaction and NoSQL are reviewed by Mohan. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0...

He has been around a long time - smart and intellectually honest. Always worth reading.

0 · February 8
Filip Szymanski

Thank you for attending the presentation. Please contact me if you would like a copy of the slides. If you would also like to listen to a customer speak about their experience with Clustrix, there is a webinar this coming Tuesday: http://www.clustrix.com/company...

We also have a free software download, Clustrix Test Drive, which you can install on a CentOS or RedHat machine. The software will give you a good sense of the features included with the product: http://www.clustrix.com/free-tr...

There was a question on documentation, you may find that at: http://www.clustrix.com/support

0 · December 7
Anthony Tomasic

I am grateful that the presentation was mostly technical and not too much marketing-speak. Thanks again Filip for his time.

Clusterix is a classical RDMS architecture and appears to follow best practice from the literature. Query transformation for parallel query processing has been around for awhile (see the Valduriez and Oszu textbook). Using MVCC for concurrency control is standard also. Automatic horizontal partitioning is more recent stuff.

The advantage of Clusterix appears to be fine tuning to a particular hardware architecture. I wonder how it compares head-to-head to VoltDB - a more radical architecture designed to address main memory DBMS.

0 · December 7
John the Scott

comprehensive, polished presentation by filip on clusterix distributed database. glad i attended.

0 · December 7
David Hecksel

Anyone have any good information on Impala?

0 · December 6
David Hecksel

Good and interesting architecture details - but the comparisons to MySQL ( versus a comparison to Exadata ) is like comparing a BMW 5 series to a Moped. 2TB is not small - but Exadata is handling dozens to hundreds of TB in production today. But like the architecture.

0 · December 6
David Engfer

Seating and food will be first come first serve

0 · December 5