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Ep. 107 Introduction to WiredTiger with Dr. Michael Cahill
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This is a podcast episode titled, Ep. 107 Introduction to WiredTiger with Dr. Michael Cahill. The summary for this episode is: <p>It's not every day that you get to spend time with a database industry legend. Today is that day. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeljcahill/?originalSubdomain=au" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dr. Michael Cahill</a> is the VP Labs at <a href="https://www.mongodb.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">MongoDB</a>. Prior to leading Labs, he co-founded, and co-architected <a href="https://www.mongodb.com/docs/manual/core/wiredtiger/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">WiredTiger</a>, the company and the storage engine respectively. His work on multiversion concurrency control and serializable isolation snapshotting has won the <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1376616.1376690" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">SIGMOD Test of Time award</a> and his groundbreaking work on the Berkeley Database remains some of the most popular open source database software ever written. WiredTiger became the default storage engine after MongoDB acquired WiredTiger the company in 2015.</p><p><br></p><p>MongoDB World 2022 - June 7-9th Register today using code "PODCAST" for a 25% discount.</p><p><a href="https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022</a></p>
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What is a database storage engine?
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01:01 MIN
What makes WiredTiger different from Mmap?
01:48 MIN
Today's Hosts
Shane McAllister
|Lead, Developer Advocacy
Michael Lynn
|Principal Developer Advocate
Today's Guests
Dr. Michael Cahill
|VP Labs @ MongoDB
Dr Michael Cahill is the VP Labs at MongoDB. He was a founder and architect at WiredTiger before its acquisition by MongoDB. Prior to that, he was an architect of Berkeley DB at Sleepycat Software and Oracle Corp., responsible for design and implementation of multiversion concurrency control, as well as SQL interfaces and programming language APIs. Previously, Dr. Cahill was CTO at Bullant Technology, which grew tenfold and raised over US$30 million from investors including Intel Capital and JP Morgan during his three year tenure. Dr. Cahill’s PhD from the University of Sydney is in the area of transaction processing and concurrency control. His work on a new algorithm for implementing serializable isolation received an ACM SIGMOD Best Paper award in 2008 and was added to PostgreSQL 9.1.
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