Databases on High-speed Networks: The Time for RDMA has come!
Abstract:
High-speed networks that offer RDMA-like technologies have become the standard in data center networks for major cloud providers, providing efficient routing of massive application traffic at scale with low latency. With the recent pivot of the DBMS market from on-premise to cloud-based solutions, there is an opportune moment for system builders to adopt RDMA for constructing truly scalable cloud databases. In this talk, I will first introduce RDMA and its cloud-deployed derivatives, followed by an overview of the important insights gained over the past decade on effectively and correctly utilizing RDMA for designing scalable database systems. Finally, the talk will also cover recent opportunities and future directions such as programmability of the network on how to improve RDMA for databases in the cloud.
Short Bio:
Professor Carsten Binnig is a Full Professor in the Computer Science department at TU Darmstadt and a Visiting Researcher at the Google Systems Research Group. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg in 2008 and spent time as a postdoctoral researcher in the Systems Group at ETH Zurich and at SAP working on in-memory databases. His current research focus is on the design of scalable data systems on modern data center hardware as well as machine learning for scalable data systems. His work has received numerous awards, including a Google Faculty Award and multiple best paper and best demo awards at venues such as VLDB and SIGMOD.