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Date Published
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Gary Orenstein
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292
Language
English
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Summary

Ankur Goyal and Anders Papitto from SingleStore will present a talk titled "A Distributed In-Memory SQL Database" at the AMPLab at Berkeley on March 11th, discussing major architectural design decisions and technical details behind their product's features such as lockfree, code generation, durability/replication, distributed query execution, and clustering. The presentation aims to cover new directions for the product, including ideas on leveraging Spark. Ankur Goyal is the Director of Engineering at SingleStore and has expertise in distributed systems, compilers, and operating systems, while Anders Papitto is an engineer with experience in distributed query execution, column store storage, and other components. The AMPLab focuses on integrating algorithms, machines, and people to tackle Big Data challenges through machine learning, cloud computing, and crowdsourcing.