A developer-driven approach to building secondary indexes presentation | Tigris Object Storage

I did a presentation at the FoundationDB Monthly Meetup. The talk is about how building secondary indexes for a database is always about balance. A balance between a system that scales and is easy to manage and an API that is intuitive and delightful for a developer to use. Recently at Tigris Data, we have been adding secondary indexes to our metadata store and have been working hard to achieve a good balance between scale and developer delight. Tigris is a storage platform that leverages FoundationDB as one of its core components. In this talk, I cover four aspects we had to balance:

1. Handling schema changes automatically in our secondary indexes.
2. The trade-off between auto-indexing all fields and indexing select fields.
3. Changes we made after performance testing.
4. How we plan to build indexes in the background with minimal conflicts.

FoundationDB Online Meetup 01: A dev-driven approach to building secondary indexes (Garren Smith) - YouTube