sfspark.org: Alexy Khrabrov interviews Monte Zweben (Splice Machine)
Recording: sfspark.org: Alexy Khrabrov interviews Monte Zweben (Splice Machine)
[Music] uh hello everybody I'm Alexi kro the organizer of SF spark and here we're in location at splice machine uh it's a very interesting company uh using spark uh for for data access uh at very high speed and very high scale and here us we have Monty weben who is the co-founder and coo hello there thanks for having us it's great to be back uh we've done a Meetup earlier this year and I know that since then you guys open sourced yes we have splice machine so can you tell us a little bit more about splice machine what does it do and why do you guys open source it absolutely e for cool so uh it's I it's really exciting that uh you know I've been uh here before and we had a meet up with John Lech talking about the the internals and I think it's really exciting uh I think you guys are tacking one of the hardest problems right uh you want to have SQL but you want to have it at Big Data scale yes right but so won't many other people right so there are data frames in spark there is mql there is a whole bunch of other things can you tell me how you guys differentiate yourselves and you know why should should somebody who is a develop who's trying to pick something up try splice machine I think e you have to glue it all together cool yeah I found this actually very exciting right because o AP and LP processing is traditionally not the strong uh uh side of things like spark right because G you have a big bench right and you you do something so uh uh can you just briefly mention for those who don't know how you guys are able to do that excellent yeah e for workers MH this this is really exciting I mean I I I kind of uh I kind of understand the complexity and I find this very interesting I think it's being open source it's really exciting that people can play with this I just want to kind of ask you how did you get into this area you know this is basically a very tough area with a lot of competition right uh and there's only one Oracle yet out there like how do you plan to become that Oracle of Open Source like how how do you get there and you know and can like trajectory of you problem know e interesting interesting exciting and you know you guys were at the data by the way and actually I think this is a great connection right because if you build a scalable platform which makes it easy uh to kind of build this uh AI systems right I think it will really enable so really looking forward to you know some applications on top of this platform and looking forward to your talk tonight thank you very much I appreciate it thank you a