{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Database School","title":"A million transactions per second: building TigerBeetle with Joran Greef","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/56f3a492\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5292,"description":"In this episode, Aaron talks with Joran Greef, CEO and creator of TigerBeetle, the world’s first financial transactions database. Joran takes us on a deep dive of on how TigerBeetle brings double-entry accounting principles directly into the database layer to achieve extreme correctness, performance, and fault tolerance at scale.\nFollow Joran and TigerBeetle:\nTwitter/X: https://twitter.com/jorandirkgreef\nWebsite: https://tigerbeetle.com\nGitHub: https://github.com/tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle\nTiger Style: https://github.com/tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle/blob/main/docs/TIGER_STYLE.md\nYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@UC3TlyQ3h6lC_jSWust2leGg \nFollow Aaron:\nTwitter/X:  https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis \nDatabase School: https://databaseschool.com\nDatabase School YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@UCT3XN4RtcFhmrWl8tf_o49g  (Subscribe today)\nLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aarondfrancis\nWebsite: https://aaronfrancis.com - find articles, podcasts, courses, and more.\nChapters:\n00:00 - Introduction and crossover between accounting and databases\n01:50 - Meet Joran Greef and the origins of TigerBeetle\n02:55 - What makes TigerBeetle different from general purpose databases\n04:38 - The founding story and the 5,000-year history of transactions\n07:42 - How modern commerce became highly transactional\n10:06 - Recognizing the limits of general purpose databases\n13:18 - From distributed systems to payment infrastructure\n17:01 - Discovering bottlenecks in traditional database performance\n19:58 - Why traditional databases can’t scale for microtransactions\n23:05 - Introducing double-entry accounting concepts\n25:20 - How double-entry accounting mirrors database design\n31:35 - Modeling ledgers and event sourcing in Tiger Beetle\n35:02 - Why TigerBeetle outperforms Postgres and MySQL\n40:05 - Batching transactions for massive throughput\n47:09 - Client-side batching and zero-copy efficiency\n50:04 - Handling contention and concurrency internally\n56:03 - Ensuring correctness and atomicity...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/QPpKhRBWtM56k1sC7Y7j7aqGy8sd-XKWw6mEKgA1jmw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lMmRl/ZTM5ZTAxOTMzNTgy/MmJmZTA4MWE1ZjMw/YjE4Ny5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}