Making a case for in-memory database: inside Tarantool (Part 1)

Description

Dynamic random access memory is getting cheaper every day, and
ever growing set of applications is becoming fully RAM-resident.

In this talk I'll state the case for in-memory technology
in purely engineering terms: how memory-focused algorithms
and data structures create a performance and
efficiency edge over traditional systems, significant enough to
justify an own product family:

- taking memory management to the next level: why only an in-memory
database memory manager can reach the levels of speed and efficiency
unattainable by general purpose memory allocators 

- bringing concurrency to the data, and why concurrency does not
equate to parallelism, while can surpass the latter in performance 

- in-memory database bottlenecks: what are they, and how they
 are different from a traditional DBMS.

Speakers

Konstantin Osipov

CTO, Tarantool.org

Biography:

Konstantin is a software engineer with Mail.Ru Group and lead developer of Tarantool - an open source Lua application server and in-memory database. Prior to Tarantool Konstantin was a core member of MySQL development team.

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