YugaByteDB Internals with Franck Pachot

Опубликовано: 18 Май 2026
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Hey Everyone,

In this video I talk to Franck Pachot about internals of YugabyteDB. Franck has joined the show previously to talk about general database internals and its again a pleasure to host him and talk about DistributedSQL, YugabyteDB, ACID properties, PostgreSQL compatibility etc.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:26 What does Cloud Native means?
02:57 What is Distributed SQL?
03:47 Is DistributedSQL also based on Sharding?
05:44 What problem does DistributedSQL solves?
07:32 Writes - Behind the scenes.
10:59 Reads: Behind the scenes.
17:01 BTrees vs LSM: How is the data written do disc?
25:02 Why RocksDB?
29:52 How is data stored? Key Value?
33:56 Transactions: Complexity, SQL vs NoSQL
42:51 MVCC in YugabyteDB: How does it work?
45:08 Default Transaction Isolation level in YugabyteDB
51:57 Fault Tolerance & High Availability in Yugabyte
56:48 Thoughts on Postgres Compatibility and Future of Distributed SQL
01:03:53 Usecases not suitable for YugabyteDB

Previous videos:
Database Internals:
Part1:    • Part 1 - Database Internals with Franck Pa...  
Part2:    • Part 2 - Database Internals with Franck Pa...  

Geo Distributed Applications:    • Building Geo Distributed Applications with...  
Postgres Compatibility:    • [Live Migration] PostgresSQL compatible Di...  

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