Once upon a time In November 2017, I was invited by Andy Pavlo to give a talk at the CMU about the internals of QuasarDB. During that talk, I briefly mentioned why we don’t use memory-mapped files and why it’s generally a mistake to do this. To be clear, I only had a strong intuition, […]
Log4J is making the news because of recent major security vulnerabilities. Writing secure software is extremely hard, and logging frameworks are often overlooked as a simple, unimportant component. Any software component that parses and outputs user input needs to be considered seriously from a security standpoint. Being written in C++, Quasar does not use log4j. […]
To DBaaS or to PaaS, that is the question. That’s it! You’ve decided to run your DataBase Management System (DBMS) in the cloud, but now, you have more questions than before. IaaS? PaaS? SaaS? DBaaS? Lil NaaS? At Quasar, we do the full range of possible deployments, from databases embedded in ARM32 devices to on-premises […]
Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is facing the new challenge of having to ingest very high volume of timeseries data and perform complex analysis in real time. In this blog post, we share with you the lessons we’ve learned along the way.
