Very Large Postgres

Since the International Conference on Very Large Databases is in town for the first week of September, we're taking the opportunity to talk about things that look like Postgres, work with Postgres things and can use very very large hardware. In short, Very Large Postgres.

We'll have two talks, looking at two very different projects.

Max Bandle will tell us about CedarDB, which has recently moved from an academic project to to a commercial product. CedarDB looks like Postgres from the wire, but the back end is largely new, based on research into how to extract the best performance from modern hardware.

Paul Johnson will tell us about Metapa, Greenplum and Cloudberry, which have had a 20 year journey from a startup forking Postgres to enterprise open source and a fork to keep the open source alive. The database internals of this story are interesting on their own, and the operational differences add additional interest.

So we have something old, something new, something borrowed (or at least derived from) in the Postgres code base and Slonik providing the something blue - all the ingredients for a big event!

So join us at 18:30 on 2 September at Doggetts on the South end of Blackfriars Bridge.