On MySQL Ecosystem. Q&A with Vinicius Grippa
Q1. You have 18 years of experience in mission-critical database design. What are the main lessons you have learned in all these years? Test, test, and test one more time! When I started at...
Category: NewSQL, XML, RDF Data Stores, RDBMS
On Large Language Models (LLMs) and Databases. Q&A with Madeleine Corneli
Q1. You believe in collaboration, working closely with engineering, data science, marketing, and customers. How does it work in practice? What are the challenges you face in bringing different stakeholders together? Collaboration across technical...
On HeatWave MySQL: Query Execution, Performance, Benchmarks, and Vector type. Q&A with Kaan Kara.
Q1. You are working as a lead developer mainly responsible for query execution in HeatWave MySQL. What are the challenges that you try to solve? HeatWave is an in-memory data processing engine, so for...
On Processing and Analyzing large datasets of Financial data. Q&A with Michaela Woods
Q1. What is your role at KX and what are your current projects? As a Developer Advocate at KX, my primary focus is on kdb+, along with creating technical content, developing training courses for...
On Data Migration. Q&A with Eric Hanson
Q1. What are the typical challenges when performing data migration? Performing data migration requires you to decide what to migrate, build tables in the target system with the right schema, do initial movement of...
HeatWave Japan User Group. Q&A with Masataka Narita and Tatsuya Naito
Q1. We hear about GenAI every day. How can we leverage HeatWave GenAI specifically? What makes HeatWave GenAI unique? The big difference is that the entire GenAI process can be completed within customer’s HeatWave. There are...
MySQL Rockstar 2013: Q&A with Sveta Smirnova.
Q1. You work at work Percona as Principal Support Engineer for MySQL, its forks and utilities. What are your responsibilities? My title is Principal Support Engineering Coordinator and my responsibility is to ensure that...
MySQL October 2024 GA Releases Now Available
This October release is the third LTS release and second Innovation release since MySQL announced our move to a new LTS/Innovation release model. For more info click here. Also you can read LEFRED blog...
On NEXTGRES and the evolution of PostgreSQL. Q&A with Jonah Harris.
Q1: What is NEXTGRES? NEXTGRES is a next-generation, enterprise-class evolution of PostgreSQL designed to unify diverse data types, code execution, and computational workloads within a single, scalable system. By integrating multiple data models–including relational,...
On Predictable Real-Time Data Management Over Persistent Storage Media. Q&A with Andrei Gorine and Steve Graves
Q1. As real-time systems grow in complexity, they require managing increasingly large and intricate data. What are the main challenges in managing the predictability aspects of real-time databases? Several challenges must be addressed. In a...