Reynold Xin
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 24 Jun
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And the engineering team that actually started this, they were brilliant.
I think we hired some of the best database engineers on the planet into Databricks, and they were brilliant.
Thank God it's not their second system.
Many of them have built more than...
two in the past.
Ah, nice.
But they were still worried about this.
Hey, building a database engine from scratch, I think the conventional wisdom is going to take like five years to mature.
This would be a very long-term project.
It could fail.
I think one of the engineers kind of jokingly said, hey, maybe we just call it Reynolds Dream Engine.
If we name off their co-founder, maybe we're going to get canceled or killed.
But I think they built something pretty remarkable.
They went back to, they kind of changed the way the database engines were built from a paradigm point of view.
Usually when you build a database engine, you read a lot of academic papers, you try to understand what are the latest algorithms and data structures, and you put them together and see if they work or not.
And there's a high risk of failure there also because whatever that looks really good on paper might actually look really good in 70% of the workloads, but then it backfires on the other 30%.
They actually went and built more of a factory for building the database.
So they spent more time building this factory.
And the factory takes the decade of traces we have.
I think they count as a quadrillion data points in the trace table.
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