Architecting Real-time Analytics with Dhruba Borthakur of Rockset

In this episode, we spoke with Dhruba Borthakur, Dhruba is the CTO and Co-founder at Rockset. Rockset is a search and analytics database hosted on the cloud. Dhruba was the founding engineer of the RocksDB project at Facebook and the Principal Architect for HDFS for a while. In this episode, we discuss RocksDB and compare it with LevelDB. We also discuss in detail the Aggregator Leaf Tailer architecture, which started at Facebook and is now powering Rockset. Timestamps: 02:00 Introduction 03:43 About Rockset 05:40 Where does Rockset fit in my architecture 11:40 Converged Index 17:58 What is RocksDB? 20:15 Comparing RocksSB with LevelDB 27:25 Aggregator Leaf Tailer Architecture 01:04:04 Staying up to date with hardware advances 01:05:37 Getting first customers 01:08:43 More about Rockset Follow Dhruba:   / dhruba_rocks   Follow Alex:   / alexbdebrie   Software Huddle ⤵︎ X:   / softwarehuddle   LinkedIn:   / softwarehuddle   Substack: https://softwarehuddle.substack.com/