Episode description
Highlights from this week’s conversation include:
- Robert’s background and career journey (2:21)
- How studying languages influences database work (5:13)
- Why Robert has been working with databases for 40+ years (7:50)
- Explaining the ClickHouse database (10:43)
- How ClickHouse is able to focus on latency (13:39)
- The use cases behind ClickHouse (19:19)
- How ClickHouse is different than other databases (25:47)
- Why old problems are just now getting addressed (29:04)
- How ClickHouse works with others against another (33:03)
- When to implement ClickHouse (38:53)
- The distance between ClickHouse and the end-user (42:24)
- New database technologies (47:02)
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