The computer science behind a modern distributed data store

What we see in the modern data store world is a race between different approaches to achieve distributed and resilient storage. The IoT, genomics, and applications for any other field also raise the demand for a stateful layer. Max Neunhffer walks you through the components and the inner workings of modern open source databases like ArangoDB, Cassandra, Cockroach, and RethinkDB.

What we see in the modern data store world is a race between different approaches to achieve distributed and resilient storage. Every application needs a stateful layer, which holds the data; there are at least three necessary components, which can be difficult to combine in any case and even more challenging when trying to acheive acceptable performance. Over the past few years, there has been significant progress in both the science and practical implementations of data stores. Max Neunhöffer walks you through the components and the inner workings of modern open source databases like ArangoDB, Cassandra, Cockroach, and RethinkDB, covering the challenges in developing a distributed, resilient data store and diving into topics such as consensus, distributed transactions, distributed query optimization, and execution.