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The 1000x faster financial database | Joran Dirk Greef, creator of TigerBeetle
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Apr 22025
In July of 2020, Joran Dirk Greef stumbled into a fundamental limitation in the general-purpose database design for transaction processing. This sent him on a path that ended with @tigerbeetledb, a redesigned distributed database for financial transactions that yielded three orders of magnitude faster OLTP performance over the usual (general-purpose) suspects.
On this episode, Joran joins Jerod to explain how TigerBeetle got so fast, to defend its resilience and durability claims as a new market entrant, and to stake his claim at the intersection of open source and business. Oh, plus the age old question: Why Zig?
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Start the show!
00:35 Stumbling into it
03:44 Maybe I did it wrong
04:58 It's the row locks
06:50 Pareto meets the Mag 7
08:57 Financial, not SQL, transactions
10:08 A specialized database
13:18 Why build yet another database?
18:05 Where do you start?
20:35 Who is 'we'?
21:58 10_000x faster?!
23:33 New world, new constraints
25:03 Row, column, mulit-major
28:57 Multi-row major implications
34:34 Embarrassingly simple
37:25 On durability
47:54 "Centuries" of testing
50:06 What about real-world use tho
55:27 Worst-case scenario logic
56:35 TigerBeetle Simulator
1:05:10 The open source story
1:15:28 Jerod reacts
1:15:50 What about AWS re-hosting
1:20:29 Written in Zig
1:26:00 Redis open source again?
1:27:00 Wrapping up…...more