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How CockroachDB powers Starburst's multi-region cloud lakehouse platform Starburst Galaxy

2024-12-11

RoachFest 2024 NYC | CockroachDB

Description

In 2021 Starburst Data was building Starburst Galaxy, the cloud managed service for their innovative distributed data lakehouse platform. The team needed a distributed database that could help them seamlessly roll out this cloud offering across multiple regions while reducing latency for their end users and guaranteeing high availability. In this session, Senior Principal Software Engineer Matt Stephenson dives into why Starburst chose CockroachDB Cloud to meet their survivability and performance goals. How CockroachDB powers Starburst's multi-region cloud lakehouse platform 00:00 Introduction 01:04 What is Trino (Formerly known as Presto) 02:14 What is Starburst Galaxy? / Starburst Galaxy Demo 05:20 How Starburst Galaxy was built with CockroachDB 07:10 CockroachDB's reliability advantage 08:11 How CockroachDB speeds up development 09:33 How CockroachDB simplifies operations 10:48 Running CockroachDB in multiple regions 13:10 Using CockroachDB with PrivateLink 14:25 Schema migrations with CockroachDB 16:21 Starburst Galaxy's Query History feature 18:37 Q&A