Future of Databases: Combining Operational and Analytical Data at Massive Scale

A lot of things are deemed a “game-changer” these days, but distributed SQL actually deserves the moniker. Distributed SQL databases are relational databases engineered with a distributed architecture to scale out on commodity hardware, on premises or in the cloud - without any trade-offs. These databases retain standard SQL, ACID transactions and strong consistency while adding unprecedented levels of scalability. But that's only the tip of the iceberg.

In this session, you will get a quick look at MariaDB's distributed SQL implementation, Xpand, and how it takes database elasticity, scale and high availability to the next level. Diving deeper, you'll be introduced to the novel concept of MariaDB's columnar indexing with distributed SQL, and how it can be used to dramatically improve the execution speed of analytical queries on massive datasets.