PgConf.Russia 2017

Database sharding enables a distribution of the database over a large number of machines, greatly improving performance. With the advent of Foreign Data Wrappers (FDW), it's possible to consider a database sharding in PostgreSQL with acceptable level of code changes using FDW. We've been working on enhancing around FDW infrastructure such as foreign table inheritance and pushing down so that PostgreSQL can execute the distributed query efficiently using FDW. In this talk, I'll cover what FDW-based sharding is and what use-cases it can cover. And then I'll demonstrate how to build sharding and describe our achievement of a FDW-based sharding in PostgreSQL community. Finally, I'll describe further enhancements to FDW such as Async Execution and Distributed Transaction Support.

Nowadays one can make a decent urban research based simply on public datasets, making interesting and unexpected insights. In the presentation, I'll show examples of these calculations in PostGIS, the industry standard de-facto.

But just PostGIS is not enough. You need tools to import, verify and visualize the data. It's critically important to visualize the data live, to debug your calculations and shorten iterations. I'll describe all these steps:

1. Collecting the data: public API, OpenStreetMap; direct user input.
2. 3rd party APIs for calculations.
3. Visualization of GIS and other sorts of data: QGIS, Matplotlib, Zeppelin integrated with PostGIS.
4. Debugging the calculations: live visualization (Arc, QGIS, NextGIS Web)
5. Scripting and minimizing the chores: Makefile, Gulp

Modern high-performance and scale-out Database solutions need to move huge amounts of data between the system components. They need to perform it quickly and without delay for the end-user. While developing interconnect technologies Mellanox focuses on highest bandwidth, ultra-low latency, and advanced CPU offload capabilities. In this session Michael will tell about fast interconnect value for Database and Big Data solutions and will share Mellanox experience in building such systems in cooperation with leading global vendors.

VIDEO

"1C:Enterprise" is the most popular in Russia/Eastern Europe business applications development framework supports PostgreSQL for 10+ years. We'll review some cases and pecularities of 1C and PostgreSQL tandem.