The boos at the Linc are the sound of self-hatred. David Lynch knew… Growing up in Paris, Julien Suaudeau knew how to stand behind his team. Why are the fans in his adopted city so quick to turn on theirs? They don’t…

Maybe Philly just cares more. Maybe Howie should've made the OC hire. Maybe it's Philly's way of questioning the mandate of the billionaire owner to represent their city. Either way, I wish Bengals fans cared this much and I'm unsure what David Lynch has to do with it.

[Future Data] Reconstructing History with XTDB - Carnegie Mellon Database Group XTDB is a SQL database that challenges long held assumptions about how... Read More +

Today's Future Data Systems Seminar Speaker: Jeremy Taylor (@refset.bsky.social) will present the architecture of the XTDB (@xtdb.com) time-traveling database system. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/futur...

[Future Data] An Extremely Technical Overview of how the Apache Iceberg™ Planning Implementation Actually Works - Carnegie Mellon Database Group What are you trying to tell me? That I can read data... Read More +

Today's Future Data Systems Seminar Speaker: Russell Spitzer will present the internals of Apache Iceberg's query planner and execution engine. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/futur...

[SQL Death] Apache Pinot Query Optimizer - Carnegie Mellon Database Group Apache Pinot is a distributed real-time OLAP database, part of a fast-growing... Read More +

Today's SQL or Death Seminar Speaker: Yash Mayya + @gortiz.bsky.social from @startreedata.bsky.social will discuss how to support multiple query languages at the same time in Apache Pinot. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/sql-d...

[SQL Death] Towards Sanity in Query Languages - Carnegie Mellon Database Group The relational model has stood the test of time is the foundation... Read More +

Today's SQL or Death Seminar Speaker: The Germans (Viktor Leis + Thomas Neumann) from @tum.de want to replace SQL with Sane Intermediate Representation (SaneIR) for relational query execution. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/sql-d...

Schedule for the SQL or Death? Spring 2025 Seminar Series Carnegie Mellon Database Group

Spring 2025 Seminar Schedule:
Feb 10: @convex.dev
Feb 17: The Germans (TUM)
Feb 24: @apachepinot.bsky.social
Mar 03: Malloy (@lloydtabb.bsky.social)
Mar 10: Google SQL Pipes
Mar 24: PRQL
Mar 31: StarRocks
Apr 07: @oxidecomputer.bsky.social
Apr 14: @mariadb.bsky.social
Apr 21: @edgedb.com