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Even more amazing papers at VLDB 2019 (that I didn’t have space to cover yet)

The Morning Paper

Could it be Analyzing efficient stream processing on modern hardware ? On one of the themes that captures my imagination, how changing hardware platform influence system design: Rethinking database high availability with RDMA networks. BlockchainDB – it’s a blockchain underneath, and a database on top.

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Structural Evolutions in Data

O'Reilly

” Web3 has similarly progressed through “basic blockchain and cryptocurrency tokens” to “decentralized finance” to “NFTs as loyalty cards.” Doubly so as hardware improved, eating away at the lower end of Hadoop-worthy work. Not that you’ll even need GPU access all that often.