BlazingSQL is Now Open Source

What kind of benefits does CUDA bring to databases? I've never heard of running a database on a GPU before. Couldn't find anything on their homepage other than comparison with a few other db options

Re: BlazingSQL is Now Open Source

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Post by taf2 » Mon, Aug 05, 2019, 5:01 PM UTC

bsamuels wrote: post #7

What kind of benefits does CUDA bring to databases? I've never heard of running a database on a GPU before. Couldn't find anything on their homepage other than comparison with a few other db options

See https://wiki.postgresql.org/images/6/65/Pgopencl.pdf

Also from 4 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10151632

Re: BlazingSQL is Now Open Source

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Post by reilly3000 » Mon, Aug 05, 2019, 5:09 PM UTC

bsamuels wrote: post #7

What kind of benefits does CUDA bring to databases? I've never heard of running a database on a GPU before. Couldn't find anything on their homepage other than comparison with a few other db options

Check out https://www.omnisci.com/learn/resources/gpu-database

In summary, you get snappy, interactive query speeds on large data sets. I've ran that locally and the results are pretty amazing compared to Postgres or even Tableau in-memory.

I'm personally more excited about GPUs in stream processing; its just quite a natural fit: https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf

Re: BlazingSQL is Now Open Source

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Post by felipe_aramburu » Mon, Aug 05, 2019, 5:10 PM UTC

manojlds wrote: post #5

Is this due to PartiQL?

No. We hadn't heard of what PartiQL was before you wrote that message. At least I hadn't. I am the CTO of blazingsql