SD Times: The New Redis Database Built on CRDT Approach

Globally distributed interactive applications are hard to develop due to read and write conflicts. The new CRDBs (conflict-free replicated databases) enable the same sub-millisecond latencies you are accustomed to getting with Redis applications with globally-distributed deployment topologies. CRDB make building complex geo-distributed apps simple by using the built-in smarts of proven CRDT approach (conflict-free replicated data-types).

In this webcast, we will look at how always-on, “AP-leaning” deployment of Redis (AP refers to A -“available” and P – “partition-loss tolerant” of CAP) is possible with CRDBs. We’ll peak under the hood at how CRDBs and Redis types such as strings, sets, and hashes work in CRDBs. We’ll also demo how to code an application with CRDBs for safe distributed failover across two data centers and avoid any downtime!

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Cihan Biyikoglu, VP Product Management, Redis

Cihan is a big data enthusiast who brings over twenty years of experience to Redis’ product team. Cihan started his career as a C/C++ developer. Most recently, Cihan was Dir. of Product Management at Couchbase, responsible for the Couchbase Server product. Cihan was also part of the team in Redmond, WA that launched Azure public cloud platform at Microsoft. He also delivered a number of versions of SQL Server product suite. Previously Cihan worked on Informix and Illustra database products that were later acquired by IBM.

Cihan holds a number of patents in the database filed, and has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering and a Master of Science in Database Systems.