{"id":2804,"date":"2016-09-08T02:11:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T09:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/softwareengineeringdaily.com\/?p=2804"},"modified":"2021-11-05T03:06:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T10:06:52","slug":"relational-databases-with-craig-kerstiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/softwareengineeringdaily.com\/2016\/09\/08\/relational-databases-with-craig-kerstiens\/","title":{"rendered":"Relational Databases with Craig Kerstiens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2475\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/softwareengineeringdaily.com\/2016\/04\/19\/googles-container-management-brendan-burns\/brendan-burns\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/softwareengineeringdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/brendan-burns.jpg?fit=175%2C175&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"175,175\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"brendan-burns\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/softwareengineeringdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/brendan-burns.jpg?fit=175%2C175&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/softwareengineeringdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/brendan-burns.jpg?fit=175%2C175&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2475\" style=\"border-radius: 50%; border: 1px solid #000000; max-width: 175px; max-height: 175px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heavybit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/craig-kerstiens.jpg?resize=175%2C175\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Relational databases are used by most applications. MySQL, Postgres, Microsoft SQL Server, and other products implement the core features of a relational database in different ways. A developer who has never studied this space in detail may not know the differences between these databases, and in this episode, we describe some tradeoffs that relational databases can make.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Craig Kerstiens is an engineer at Citus Data, a company that makes scalable Postgres. We talk about the requirements for a relational database, ACID compliance, how different databases handle different distributed systems problems, and the recent blog post from Uber about the company\u2019s switch from Postgres to MySQL.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relational databases are used by most applications. MySQL, Postgres, Microsoft SQL Server, and other products implement the core features of a relational database in different ways. 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