The State of Databases Today (w/ Andy Pavlo)

Andy Pavlo is a professor of databaseology (he says it's a made-up word) at Carnegie Mellon and currently on leave to build his own company—OtterTune, which uses AI to figure out the settings to get the best performance out of databases. He is one of the preeminent minds on databases and a die-hard relational database maximalist. We talk about the state of databases today, why there are so many specialized databases (and if we need so many), why tuning databases is so hard but important, and how the database landscape will evolve.

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Tristan Handy has been curating the Analytics Engineering Roundup newsletter since 2015, pulling together the internet’s best data science & analytics articles. Tristan and co-host Julia Schottenstein now bring the Roundup to real life, hosting biweekly conversations with data practitioners inventing the future of analytics engineering. You can view full episode summaries and read back issues of the Roundup newsletter at https://roundup.getdbt.com. The podcast is sponsored by dbt labs, makers of the data transformation framework dbt. To reach our team, drop a note to podcast@dbtlabs.com.