Ajay Kulkarni
Co-founder & CEO, Timescale. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Ajay Kulkarni is the co-founder and CEO of Timescale, the creator of the time-series database TimescaleDB. He previously founded Sensobi, which was acquired by GroupMe, and later led mobile engineering at GroupMe following its acquisition by Microsoft.
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Everything Ajay Kulkarni said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Kulkarni: The big data era is over and the time series era has begun
“The big data era is over, and in fact, we're now entering the time series era for analyzing the past, understanding the present, and predicting the future.”
Ajay Kulkarni: All data is fundamentally time-series data
“It's actually because we believe that all data is fundamentally time series data.”
Kulkarni: 3 TimescaleDB nodes outperformed 30 Cassandra nodes at 1/10th cost
“For time series data, three time scale nodes was able to outperform a 30 node Cassandra cluster at one 10th the cost.”
Kulkarni: TimescaleDB delivers query speeds 100x-1000x faster than MongoDB
“Given the same hardware, we're seeing not just higher insert performance, but hundreds to thousands of times faster queries.”
Ajay Kulkarni: Non-time-series data storage discards valuable state information
“And in fact, I would argue that not storing your data as time series is throwing away valuable information, because then you're losing how your data changed in the past, how it would be changing today, and how it might change in the future.”
Kulkarni: Elastic filed for IPO making $160M in revenue, more than MongoDB
“I think Elastic, which is Filed Furnace for a IPO, is an example of that. I think they're already making a hundred and sixty million In revenue, which is more than Mongo's making already, which is crazy.”
Kulkarni argues KDB fails to scale due to its proprietary Q language
“Where the problem with KDB is that, well, number one, it's not open source. But number two it, it's not really, it's not a sequel database, right? There's a really arcane language called Q that's built in APL, which is, you know, looks like Greek, right? And o…”
Time-series databases became the fastest-growing database category from 2016 to 2018
“So over the past 24 months, Time Series has emerged as the largest growing, fastest growing category of databases, ah, in the industry.”
Kulkarni: Open source is the dominant way to distribute software infrastructure
“I firmly believe that, you know, open source has become the, I think, the dominant way to distribute, you know, software infrastructure, you know, whether it's you know, something like Kubernetes, or it's a database.”
Kulkarni: Popularity of Kafka will not replace traditional databases
“Like, I don't think the popularity of Kafka means that, that, that databases, you know, go away.”
TimescaleDB surpassed 1 million downloads in its first 18 months
“We've passed a million downloads in 18 months,”
Connected internet devices outnumbered humans in 2017, excluding phones and PCs
“The number of connected machines, these are machines connected to the internet, not including smartphones and computers last year outnumbered the number of human beings on this planet for the first time.”
Kulkarni: Web eventing and machine learning inferences are time-series data
“Web and mobile eventing data, again, is, is time series data, and even machine learning inferences are a source of time series data.”
Timescale pivoted from an IoT platform into a time-series database
“We have close to a 100,000 devices on our platform, and we need a place to store them, and, you know, and we tried a bunch of databases. It didn't work. Long story short, we just built our own time series database but we're still in the IoT business, and we fo…”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Ajay's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 MADLEDGER | Co-founder & CEO, Timescale | 1 | 14 | 100% 4/4 | full record on the MAD Podcast → |