On MySQL HeatWave. Q&A with Frederic Descamps
Q1. What is exactly MySQL HeatWave and how does it compared to the “vanilla” MySQL?MySQL HeatWave is the name of the MySQL Managed Service (DBaaS) by Oracle. Of course it’s available in OCI but...
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On Oracle MySQL: An Overview. Q&A with Heather Vancura
Q1. If you need to summarize in a nutshell, what happened to MySQL since Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL AB on 21 January 2010? Stewardship of a community is easy for new and emerging technology....
On Streaming Processing and Data Platforms. Q&A with David Rolfe
Q1. How is stream processing different from traditional data processing? “In the beginning”, there was only one computer, one CPU, and no network. The invention of networking and the PC led to client-server computing....
On Vector databases and GenAI. Q&A with Michael Gilfix
Q1. Do you believe GenAI is ready to be used in daily business? Why? In some ways, GenAI is already being used in daily business operations, but only for surface level tasks that contribute...
On the Presto Open Source Project. Q&A with Tim Meehan
Q1. What is special about the Presto open source distributed query engine? I’ve been working on this project for over 6 years, and I’m still very engaged and excited by it. Ultimately, I think it...
On SingleStore native integration with Apache Iceberg. Q&A with Dave Eyler
Q1. You just announced a native integration with Apache Iceberg. What is Apache Iceberg and what is it useful for? Apache Iceberg is the most popular open-source format for storing massive data sets and...
On Open Source Vector Databases. Q&A with Ben Bromhead
Q1. Instaclustr, acquired by NetApp a couple years ago, is now Instaclustr by NetApp—what role does Instaclustr by NetApp serve? Instaclustr by NetApp helps organizations deliver applications at scale by operating and supporting their...
On the Open Source Valkey Project. Q&A with Madelyn Olson
Q1. What makes Redis so special and why is it so popular? Redis became ubiquitous in real-time applications because of its high performance and versatility while still being extremely simple to use. One of...
On Using Unstructured Data to Produce Useful and Meaningful insights. Q&A with Paul Speciale.
Q1. Large language models (LLMs) are the current shining stars and hold incredible potential and promise for business use, leveraging mainly structured (text-based) training data. Are these extravagant promises? We believe there is exceptional potential...
On StarRocks. Q&A with Andy Ye
Q1. What is StarRocks? StarRocks is the only open-source SQL query engine able to run the most demanding data warehouse workloads directly on the data lakehouse, without ingesting into a proprietary data warehouse for...