Cockroach Labs: The Hows & Whys of a Distributed SQL Database

Hi Everyone!

Very excited to announce our October meetup! We've got the creators of CockroachDB (https://www.cockroachlabs.com) in town to tell us all about "The Hows & Whys of a Distributed SQL Database"

The Plan:

6.30pm - Arrive - Beer, Pizza and Socialising

7pm - Talk - Raphael Poss - Software Engineer @ Cockroach Labs

Title: The Hows & Whys of a Distributed SQL Database

Abstract: Until recently, developers have had to deal with serious tradeoffs when picking a database technology. One could pick a SQL database and deal with its eventual scaling problems or pick a NoSQL database and have to work around its lack of transactions, strong consistency, and/or secondary indexes. However, a new class of distributed database engines is emerging that combines the transactional consistency guarantees of traditional relational databases with the horizontal scalability and high availability of popular NoSQL databases.

In this talk, we'll take a deep dive into the key design choices behind one open source distributed SQL database, CockroachDB, that enables it to offer such properties and compare them to past SQL and NoSQL designs. We will look specifically at how to achieve the easy deployment and management of a scalable, self-healing, strongly-consistent database with techniques such as dynamic sharding and rebalancing, consensus protocols, lock-free transactions, and more.

8pm - Finish - To the pub!

Look forward to seeing you all there!