359: The Enduring Popularity of Postgres, and what lies ahead (With Snowflake's Craig Kerstiens)
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David Rubinstein discusses the enduring popularity of Postgres with Craig Kerstiens from Snowflake, focusing on its reliability and innovations.
In this episode, David Rubinstein talks with Craig Kerstiens, Snowflake's Director of Software Engineering on Postgres, about the enduring popularity of Postgres, a 30-year-old database technology, due to its reliability and recent innovations like JSON support and vector store databases. He highlighted the challenge of integrating operational (OLTP) and analytical (OLAP) data for AI applications, noting the importance of reducing latency and operational burden. Kerstiens introduced PG Lake, ...
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