Talks
Do We Still Need People To Write Database Systems?
OSACON, November 2021.
OtterTune: Using Machine Learning to Automatically Optimize Database Configurations
Percona Live, Postgres Vision, Postgres Conference, AIDB@VLDB, 2021. [VIDEO]
The Official Ten-year Retrospective of NewSQL Databases
CIDR, June 2021. [INFO] [VIDEO]
Everything is a Transaction
CIDR, January 2020. [VIDEO]
Self-Driving Databases & My Pregnant Wife: The Hard Parts
CockroachDB, MongoDB, Two Sigma, Snowflake, Rockset, Oracle, Yelp, AI@DB, Cornell, Summer 2019. [INFO] [VIDEO]
Make Your Database Dream of Electric Sheep: Designing for Autonomous Operation
Percona Live, DataStax PE, SFO NewSQL Meet-up, University of Michigan, May 2018. [INFO] [INFO]
Andy's Guide on How to Get Tenure in Databases
Percona Live (Mini-Keynote), April 2018. [INFO] [VIDEO]
What Are We Doing With Our Lives? Nobody Cares About Our Research on Concurrency Control
SIGMOD (Keynote), May 2017. [INFO] [VIDEO]
Online Deduplication for Databases
SIGMOD, May 2017.
Peloton: The Self-Driving Database Management System
DataEngConf (NYC), November 2016. [INFO] [VIDEO]
What Non-Volatile Memory Means for the Future of Database Systems
In-Memory Computing Summit, May 2016. [INFO] [VIDEO]
Peloton: The Self-Driving Database Management System
PDL Visit Day, May 2016. [INFO]
I Don't Want to be the Mitt Romney of Databases
University of Waterloo, November 2015. [VIDEO]
HPTS 2015 Award Ceremony
HPTS 2015, September 2015.
Andy Pavlo's Mostly Professional and Collected Presentation about Getting Down & Dirty in OLTP Databases with Intel's NVM SDV
ISTC for Big Data Retreat, September 2015.
Reducing Replication Bandwidth for Distributed Document Databases
MongoDB, July 2015.
Mobility and Big Data: Adding an M to the Vs, or not?
IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (Panel), June 2015. [INFO]
Moving the Abyss: Database Management on Future 1000-core Processors
NSF Workshop on Exploiting Parallelism and Scalability, June 2015. [INFO]
Database Systems Do Not Scale to 1000 CPU Cores and Other Tales of the Macabre
CMU Qatar / Qatar Computing Research Institute, December 2014. [INFO] [VIDEO]
Let's Talk About Storage & Recovery Methods for Non-Volatile Memory OLTP Database Systems
ISTC for Big Data Retreat, August 2014.
H-Store Retrospective
SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award, June 2014. [INFO] [VIDEO]
OLTP on the NVM SDV: YMMV
ISTC for Big Data Retreat, December 2013.
What's Really New With NewSQL
Northwest Database Society, October 2013. [INFO]
Random Prognostications: An Evening with Andy Pavlo
HPTS 2013, September 2013. [INFO]
My Database System is the Only Thing I Can Trust
Ph.D. Defense, August 2013. [INFO]
One Size Almost Fits All™
NuoDB/VoltDB, July 2013.
Cache Rules Everything Around Me
Brown IPP Symposium on Big Data, April 2013. [INFO]
Everything I Know About Fast Databases I Learned at the Dog Track
Job Search Tour, February/March 2013. [VIDEO] [VIDEO]
Anti-Caching in H-Store
ISTC for Big Data Retreat, January 2013.
On Predictive Modeling for Distributed Databases
VLDB, August 2012. [INFO]
Automatic Database Partitioning in Parallel OLTP Systems
SIGMOD, May 2012. [INFO]
Making Fast Databases Faster
Columbia University, April 2012. [INFO]
Making Fast Databases Faster
Yale University, April 2012. [INFO]
Methods for the Optimization of Parallel OLTP Systems
VoltDB, Inc., April 2012.
Making Fast Databases Faster
New England Database Summit 2012, February 2012. [INFO] [PHOTO]
Magical Parallel OLTP Databases
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, November 2011. [INFO]
Life After the Stonebraker Stores
HPTS 2011, October 2011. [INFO]
MapReduce and Parallel DBMSs: Together At Last
IPP Symposium on Cloud Computing, May 2010. [INFO]
MapReduce and Parallel DBMSs: Together At Last
New England Database Summit 2010, January 2010. [INFO]
H-Store: A Specialized Architecture for High-throughput OLTP Applications
HPTS 2009, October 2009. [INFO]
Graffiti Networks: A Subversive, Internet-Scale File Sharing Model
DC401 - Rhode Island Defcon Group, October 2009. [INFO] [VIDEO]
MapReduce and Parallel DBMSs: A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis
University of Maryland College Park, September 2009. [INFO]
Challenges in Dynamic Deployment of Condor Across Distributed Environments
University of Wisconsin - Madison, May 2007. [INFO]
NMI Build & Test Laboratory: Continuous Integration Framework for Distributed Computing Software
USENIX LISA, December 2006. [INFO]