Have you ever been overwhelmed by the number of databases on offer? This week we welcome database expert Ben Stopford as a guide to help us map the database landscape and make sense of it all!

Join us as we embark on a journey through the history of databases, tracing the path from the RDBMs of Edgar Codd to the multitude cloud-era of options available today. Discover the strengths of various database styles and explore the tradeoffs between general-purpose databases like #PostgreSQL and #MySql or highly customised ones like #Cassandra or #Snowflake.

We delve into the realm of the cloud and the opportunities it brings, both for users and the database vendors themselves. And then we examine the challenges that arise when you're forced to connect multiple databases across an organisation. Should you look at Event Sourcing? Or Event Streaming, and how exactly do they differ?

Finally, we look towards the future, discussing Ben's vision of an ideal database and which programming language he would choose to build it in.

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0:00 Intro
2:08 Where are we in Database History?
9:07 The "Best Camera" analogy
9:48 But specific needs demand specific solutions.
10:48 The gridlines of the Database Map
14:02 Columnar Databases
16:26 The specific advantages that come from cloud providers
18:16 How is the market consolidating?
19:22 Resiliency has changed
20:25 Will database builders pivot to being database providers?
23:43 Event Sourcing
25:11 The Myth of Switching Databases
27:08 ORMs
29:54 What about mixing multiple kinds of database?
34:20 Kafka, Event Sourcing and Event Streaming
38:37 Event Sourcing vs Bitemporality
41:54 What's Ben's hoped-for future?
44:45 What language would you build a database in?
48:22 Outro

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