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Databases Demystified Lesson Distributed Databases Part 3

In this episode of Michael Kaminksy's Databases Demystified, he explores: What does “consensus” mean and why is it important? Learn about the two-generals problem and what it teaches us about reaching consensus Learn about the main consensus algorithms in distributed databases: Raft & Paxos

Databases Demystified Lesson 1 Introduction to Databases and SQL

In the first episode of Databases Demystified with Michael Kaminsky, we give a high-level overview of the most important concepts in databases. We start with a brief history of databases going from the invention of relational databases through present day and we talk about the differences between analytical and transactional databases, distributed and single-node databases, and in-memory vs on-disk databases We finish up talking briefly about SQL and what makes it special.