There are lies, damn lies, and Benchmarks
07/17/23 • 25 min
In this episode, we discuss database benchmarking with our guest Ahmad Ghazal (Distinguished Engineer at PingCAP). Ahmad talks about the limitation of existing benchmarks for HTAP (Hybrid transactional/analytical processing), and the work he's doing with other researchers to develop a new HTAP benchmark for modern user cases such as Web3.
If you have any feedback or suggestions for episodes, you can email us at [email protected].
————————— About PingCAP and TiDB —————————
PingCAP is the creator of #TiDB, an advanced, #OpenSource, #DistributedSQL database with #MySQL compatibility. TiDB powers modern applications with a streamlined tech stack, elastic scaling, real-time analytics, and continuous access to data—all in a single database.
————————— Developer resources —————————
💫TiDB Twitter: https://twitter.com/TiDB_Developer
💫Introducing TiDB: https://youtu.be/_QBrPBwFoWM
💫Quick start with TiDB: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable/quick-start-with-tidb
💫TiDB in #Kubernetes: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb-in-kubernetes/stable
————————— Connect with PingCAP —————————
🔹Twitter: https://twitter.com/PingCAP
🔹LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/pingcap
🔹Facebook: https://facebook.com/pingcap2015
🔹Slack: https://slack.tidb.io/invite?team=tidb-community&channel=everyone&ref=pingcap
🔹GitHub: https://github.com/pingcap
In this episode, we discuss database benchmarking with our guest Ahmad Ghazal (Distinguished Engineer at PingCAP). Ahmad talks about the limitation of existing benchmarks for HTAP (Hybrid transactional/analytical processing), and the work he's doing with other researchers to develop a new HTAP benchmark for modern user cases such as Web3.
If you have any feedback or suggestions for episodes, you can email us at [email protected].
————————— About PingCAP and TiDB —————————
PingCAP is the creator of #TiDB, an advanced, #OpenSource, #DistributedSQL database with #MySQL compatibility. TiDB powers modern applications with a streamlined tech stack, elastic scaling, real-time analytics, and continuous access to data—all in a single database.
————————— Developer resources —————————
💫TiDB Twitter: https://twitter.com/TiDB_Developer
💫Introducing TiDB: https://youtu.be/_QBrPBwFoWM
💫Quick start with TiDB: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable/quick-start-with-tidb
💫TiDB in #Kubernetes: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb-in-kubernetes/stable
————————— Connect with PingCAP —————————
🔹Twitter: https://twitter.com/PingCAP
🔹LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/pingcap
🔹Facebook: https://facebook.com/pingcap2015
🔹Slack: https://slack.tidb.io/invite?team=tidb-community&channel=everyone&ref=pingcap
🔹GitHub: https://github.com/pingcap
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The birth of OSS Insight
In this episode, we discuss with our guest Fan Wang how OSS Insight got started. Fan discusses how OSS Insight continues PingCAP's tradition of contributing to open source, technical challenges for OSS Insight, and how TiDB helped meet these challenges. We also discussed integration with Open AI and the upcoming OSS Insight Lite, which will help developers create personalized GitHub dashboards.
OSS Insight: https://ossinsight.io/
OSS Insight Lite: https://github.com/pingcap/ossinsight-lite
If you have any feedback or suggestions for episodes, you can email us at [email protected].
————————— About PingCAP and TiDB —————————
PingCAP is the creator of #TiDB, an advanced, #OpenSource, #DistributedSQL database with #MySQL compatibility. TiDB powers modern applications with a streamlined tech stack, elastic scaling, real-time analytics, and continuous access to data—all in a single database.
————————— Developer resources —————————
💫TiDB Twitter: https://twitter.com/TiDB_Developer
💫Introducing TiDB: https://youtu.be/_QBrPBwFoWM
💫Quick start with TiDB: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable/quick-start-with-tidb
💫TiDB in #Kubernetes: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb-in-kubernetes/stable
————————— Connect with PingCAP —————————
🔹Twitter: https://twitter.com/PingCAP
🔹LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/pingcap
🔹Facebook: https://facebook.com/pingcap2015
🔹Slack: https://slack.tidb.io/invite?team=tidb-community&channel=everyone&ref=pingcap
🔹GitHub: https://github.com/pingcap
Next Episode
Walking the tight rope: How to product manage open source databases
In this episode, we discuss being a product manager at an open source company with our guest Sam Dillard (Principal Product Manager at PingCAP). Sam talks about his role as a Product Manager and how he likes to collaborate with community members.
If you have any feedback or suggestions for episodes, you can email us at [email protected].
————————— About PingCAP and TiDB —————————
PingCAP is the creator of #TiDB, an advanced, #OpenSource, #DistributedSQL database with #MySQL compatibility. TiDB powers modern applications with a streamlined tech stack, elastic scaling, real-time analytics, and continuous access to data—all in a single database.
————————— Developer resources —————————
💫TiDB Twitter: https://twitter.com/TiDB_Developer
💫Introducing TiDB: https://youtu.be/_QBrPBwFoWM
💫Quick start with TiDB: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable/quick-start-with-tidb
💫TiDB in #Kubernetes: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb-in-kubernetes/stable
————————— Connect with PingCAP —————————
🔹Twitter: https://twitter.com/PingCAP
🔹LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/pingcap
🔹Facebook: https://facebook.com/pingcap2015
🔹Slack: https://slack.tidb.io/invite?team=tidb-community&channel=everyone&ref=pingcap
🔹GitHub: https://github.com/pingcap
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