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The 1000x faster financial database
Apr 2, 2025
Joran Dirk Greef, the mastermind behind TigerBeetle, a revolutionary distributed database optimized for financial transactions, shares his journey from identifying flaws in traditional databases to developing a solution that achieves astonishing speed. He delves into the architecture that allows for significant improvements over MySQL and Postgres, touches on the advantages of the Zig programming language, and discusses the importance of open-source practices in a competitive landscape. Joran also illuminates the need for tailored solutions in fintech, enhancing transaction efficiency for underserved markets.
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- Joran Dirk Greef identified critical limitations in traditional databases, leading to the creation of Tiger Beetle for enhanced financial transaction speed.
- Tiger Beetle's innovative architecture allows for multiple transactions in a single query, significantly reducing complexity and increasing throughput.
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The Birth of Tiger Beetle
In July 2020, Yaron Dirk Grief discovered a significant limitation in traditional general-purpose databases while working on a central bank switch project. This instance prompted him to conceive Tiger Beetle, a specialized distributed database aimed at optimizing financial transactions. The central challenge was to enhance the transaction processing speed, which revealed that existing systems could only handle a limited number of transactions per second. Consequently, Tiger Beetle was designed specifically to overcome the bottlenecks associated with legacy databases, yielding tremendous performance improvements.
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