Database School
Episodes
Building search for AI systems with Chroma CTO Hammad Bashir
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hammad Bashir, CTO of Chroma, joins the show to break down how modern vector search systems are actually built from local, embedded databases to massi...
Scaling DuckDB in the cloud with MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Database School, Aaron Francis sits down with Jordan Tigani, co-founder and CEO of MotherDuck, to break down what DuckDB is, how Mo...
Just use Postgres with Denis Magda
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Aaron talks with Dennis Magda, author of Just Use Postgres!, about the wide world of modern Postgres, from JSON and full-text search ...
Strictly typed SQL with Contra CTO, Gajus Kuizinas
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Gajus Kuizinas, co-founder and CTO of Contra, joins Aaron to talk about building the engineering world you want to live in, from stri...
Building serverless vector search with Turbopuffer CEO, Simon Eskildsen
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Aaron Francis talks with Simon Eskildsen, co-founder and CEO of TurboPuffer, about building a high-performance search engine and data...
Building an S3 Competitor with Tigris CEO Ovais Tariq
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron talks with Ovais Tariq, co-founder and CEO of Tigris Data and former Uber engineer who helped scale one of the world’s largest distributed sys...
Rewriting SQLite from prison with Preston Thorpe
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Database School, Aaron talks with Preston Thorpe, a senior engineer at Turso who is currently incarcerated, about his incredible jo...
A million transactions per second: building TigerBeetle with Joran Greef
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Aaron talks with Joran Greef, CEO and creator of TigerBeetle, the world’s first financial transactions database. Joran takes us on ...
PlanetScale Postgres with CEO Sam Lambert
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Lambert, my former boss at PlanetScale, talks to me about PlanetScale moving from a MySQL company to now also having a Postgres offering. Sam shar...
The database for all your AI needs
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Marcel Kornacker, the creator of Apache Impala and co-creator of Apache Parquet, joins me to talk about his latest project: Pixeltable, a multimodal A...
Sharding Postgres without extensions with PgDog founder, Lev Kokotov
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I chat with Lev Kokotov to talk about building PgDog, an open-source sharding solution for Postgres that sits outside the database. Lev shares the jou...
Rewriting SQLite from scratch (yes, really)
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Want to learn more about SQLite?  Check out my course on SQLite: https://highperformancesqlite.com/?ref=yt  In this episode of Database School, I ch...
Vitess for Postgres, with the co-founder of PlanetScale
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sugu Sougoumarane, co-creator of Vitess and co-founder of PlanetScale, joins me to talk about his time scaling YouTube’s database infrastructure, bu...
PlanetScale Metal
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I chat with Richard Crowley from PlanetScale about their new offering: PlanetScale Metal.We dive deep into the performance and reliab...
From Prisma Founder to LiveStore: Building local-first apps with Johannes Schickling
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Johannes Schickling, original founder of Prisma, joins me to talk about LiveStore, his ambitious local-first data layer designed to rethink how we bui...
How Durable Objects and D1 Work: A Deep Dive with Cloudflare’s Josh Howard
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Howard, Senior Engineering Manager at Cloudflare, joins me to explain how Durable Objects and D1 work under the hood—and why Cloudflare’s app...
20 years of hacking Postgres with Heikki Linnakangas (cofounder of Neon)
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Database School, I talk with Heikki Linnakangas, co-founder of Neon and longtime PostgreSQL hacker, to talk about 20+ years in the ...
Building a serverless database replica with Carl Sverre
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Want to learn more SQLite? Check out my SQLite course: https://highperformancesqlite.com In this episode, Carl Sverre and I discuss why syncing every...
Postgres on bare metal with the CEO of Prisma
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Prisma started as a GraphQL backend and pivoted into one of the most widely used ORMs in the world. Now, they’ve launched Prisma Postgres, and CEO S...
Moving from Redis to SQLite with Mike Buckbee
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Want to learn more SQLite? Check out my SQLite course: https://highperformancesqlite.com In this episode, I sit down with Mike Buckbee to dive into t...
Bootstrapping an email service provider (with Jesse Hanley)
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Want to learn more Postgres? Check out my Postgres course: https://masteringpostgres.com. In this interview, I talk with Jesse Hanley, founder of Ben...
Creating a Postgres platform with Monica & Tudor from Xata.io
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Want to learn more Postgres? Check out my Postgres course: https://masteringpostgres.com. Production ready Postgres for teams that ship fast: https:/...
Heroku's glory days & Postgres vs the world, w/ Craig Kerstiens
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Want to learn more Postgres? Check out my Postgres course: https://masteringpostgres.com. In this interview, I dive deep with Craig Kerstiens from Cru...
Ruby on Rails + SQLite with Stephen Margheim
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Want to learn more about SQLite? Check out the full course: https://highperformancesqlite.com Get production ready SQLite with Turso: https://tur.so/a...
Migrating from Postgres to SQLite with Kent C. Dodds
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Want to learn more about SQLite? Check out the full course: https://highperformancesqlite.com. Get production ready SQLite with Turso: https://tur.so/...
Production SQLite with Turso and libSQL
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Want to learn more about SQLite? Check out the full course: https://highperformancesqlite.com Get production ready SQLite with Turso: https://tur.so/a...
Offline-first, multiplayer SQLite
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Want to learn more about SQLite? Check out the full course: https://highperformancesqlite.com. Get production ready SQLite with Turso: https://tur.so/...
Distributed SQLite with Litestream and LiteFS
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Want to learn more about SQLite? Check out the full course: https://highperformancesqlite.com. Get production ready SQLite with Turso: https://tur.so/...
DHH discusses SQLite (and Stoicism)
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Want to learn more about SQLite? Check out the full course: https://highperformancesqlite.com. Get production ready SQLite with Turso: https://tur.so/...