Choosing your (first) database

About this episode

The episode discusses key factors to consider when selecting a database with guest Arnaud Adant.

In this episode, we sit down with Arnaud Adant (Database Team Lead at Jump Trading Group) to discuss key factors to consider when people are selecting their database(s). Clickhouse sink connector repo: https://github.com/Altinity/clickhouse-sink-connector If you have any feedback or suggestions for episodes, you can email us at podcast@pingcap.com. ————————— About PingCAP and TiDB ————————— PingCAP is the creator of #TiDB, an advanced, #OpenSource, #DistributedSQL data...

People in this episode

Hosts: Brian Foster, Daniel van Eeden, Ray Paik

Guest: Arnaud Adant

Topics covered

• database selection
• data management
• technology
• distributed systems
• open source

Keywords

• database
• selection
• Clickhouse
• TiDB
• data management
• open source
• distributed SQL

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Jump Trading Group, PingCAP

Products: TiDB, Clickhouse sink connector

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