SpiralDB: Building a Machine-scale Database (Will Manning) @CMUDatabaseGroup

SpiralDB: Building a Machine-scale Database (Will Manning) @CMUDatabaseGroup

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Will Manning (linkedin.com/in/will-manning-maker-of-things/)
SpiralDB (spiraldb.com/)
April 1, 2026
https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2026/schedule.html#apr-01-2026

SpiralDB: Building a Machine-scale Database (Will Manning)

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Sirius: A GPU-Native SQL Engine (Xiangyao Yu)

Introduction to ClickHouses Data Storage Architecture (George Larionov)

Introduction to SingleStore (Joseph Victor)

Aurora DSQL: Serverless, Scalable, Global OLTP Database System (Marc Brooker)

Apache Fluss: A Streaming Storage for Real-Time Lakehouse (Jark Wu)

#24 - Distributed Databases Pt. 2 (CMU Intro to Database Systems)

turbopuffer: Object Storage-native Database for Search (Simon Eskildsen)

#25 - Databricks + Yellowbrick + ClickHouse ✸ RelationalAI DB Talk (CMU Intro to Database Systems)

Transactions and Coordination in Amazon Aurora DSQL

#19 - Timestamp Ordering Concurrency Control (CMU Intro to Database Systems)

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SpiralDB: Building a Machine-scale Database (Will Manning)