Abstract: The coming end of Moore’s law requires that data systems be more judicious with computation and resources as the growth in data outpaces the availability of computational resources. Current database systems are eager and aggressively consume resources to immediately and quickly complete the task at hand. Intelligently deferring a task to a later point […]

Speaker: Karthik Ranganathan Abstract: PostgreSQL, a single-node open-source RDBMS, is widely adopted for its powerful set of features. However, PostgreSQL is not built to be used as a cloud-native database, and therefore cannot inherently survive failures, scale horizontally or support geo-distributed deployments. While Amazon Aurora has modified the subsystem of PostgreSQL that writes to disk […]