82: Databases: The Fun Never Stops with Robert Hodges of Altinity

The Data Stack Show

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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