I’m Justin. I work at Datadog . I previously worked with with Joe Hellerstein and Sutter Hill Ventures as a Research Software Engineer-in-Residence. Before that I worked for Materialize, Inc. on Materialize . Before that I worked for Cockroach Labs on CockroachDB .
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Relational (inner) joins are really common in the world of databases, and one weird thing about them is that it seems like everyone has a different idea of what they are. In this post I’ve aggregated a bunch of different definitions, ways of thinking about them, and ways of implementing them that will hopefully be…
People talk a lot about “pull” vs. “push” based query engines, and it’s pretty obvious what that means colloquially, but some of the details can be a bit hard to figure out.