In the past, scalability with relational databases was achieved via complex and incomplete workarounds, such as sharding or costly hardware — and non-relational approaches sacrificed data consistency to achieve scalability. Now, there’s distributed SQL, a new database category that offers extreme scalability. 

Watch this session to learn about MariaDB Xpand, a distributed SQL database for use cases requiring scalable transaction processing and operational analytics without sacrificing the relational data model and ACID transactions. 

This presentation will cover: 

• An overview of distributed SQL 
• How distributed SQL recovers from unexpected node failures 
• The architecture that makes this possible