Postgres & Beyond
summary
Discussion traces Postgres from research into multiple companies and real deployments, naming Illustra, Sleepycat and the surprising commercial descendant Amazon Redshift is based on Postgres. Concrete technical legacies called out include extensible types and user code next to data, early mapreduce-like UDFs in queries, and work on temporal/flash-aware storage and single-threaded server models. Panelists report hundreds of global users in the 1990s, many PhD theses and startups spun out, and Postgres features that actually shipped and scaled.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:33First Meeting
- 10:36Mikes Impact
- 28:23Postgres
- 31:49Open Source
- 32:40Commercial Postgres
- 36:40Sin City
- 45:02Montage
