Current Trends in Distributed Database Systems (Talk)
December 13th, 2010
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I recently gave a talk to our Masters Databases class entitled Current Trends in Distributed Database Systems.
The talk (available here) covers some of the more innovative designs in database systems over the last few years, from Vertica and VoltDB, to larger-scale datastores such as Amazon’s Dynamo.
Major aside: I tried and failed to come up with a more entertaining title for the talk. The suggestions I received on twitter were better, but less relevant (one of the suggestions is on my title slide).
So, if you think you can do better and come up with something that is both relevant and witty/entertaining, there’ll be some form of prize in it for you!
Dear Mr Macdonald,
I enjoyed the lecture you gave very much, and have since become a massive fan of your work, both pre and post the break up of S-Club 7 in 2003.
Although the content of the talk was generally outspoken, cutting edge and, at times, verging on the skin meltingly controversial, I was most blown away by the level of genius displayed in alternative title ‘Database or Electric Disgrace’. I do however feel that this cannot have been your handy-work and must have come from the mind of a genius or messiah type figure. Either that or it came to you in a dream.
Please come clean, or the shame will haunt you until the day the internet finally dies (June 2015)
Yours Sincerely
Deezl R Ferguson
Must have been a dream…