Rockset Architecture Whiteboard Session With CTO Dhruba Borthakur
Tags: rockset, database, realtimeanalytics, nosql
Published: 2022-06-18 17:30:12

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In this 30 minute video overview, CTO and Rockset Co-founder Dhruba Borthakur discusses [Rockset's ALT architecture](https://rockset.com/blog/aggregator-leaf-tailer-an-architecture-for-live-analytics-on-event-streams/), how data is [ingested, stored and queried in Rockset](https://rockset.com/whitepapers/rockset-concepts-designs-and-architecture/), and why Rockset is simple to use, incredibly fast and capable of the highly efficient execution of complex distributed queries across diverse data sets.

![dhruba-whiteboard](https://images.ctfassets.net/1d31s1aajogl/19HNG5PhXbTR3ewJr5kIIY/1164adf81777780cd98bfd75695f0c17/dhruba-whiteboard.jpg)

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## Learn More about Rockset Architecture

You can find more information about Rockset's architecture and functionality in the following resources:

- [Aggregator Leaf Tailer: An Alternative to Lambda Architecture for Real-Time Analytics](https://rockset.com/blog/aggregator-leaf-tailer-an-architecture-for-live-analytics-on-event-streams/)
- [Rockset Concepts, Design & Architecture](https://rockset.com/whitepapers/rockset-concepts-designs-and-architecture/)
- [Understanding Rockset – How It Works](https://rockset.com/understanding-rockset-guide.pdf)
- [Rockset Documentation](https://rockset.com/docs/)

![Diagram of Rockset ALT architecture](https://images.ctfassets.net/1d31s1aajogl/7eTPLKLzpYTZSju3EVHlsG/e78e7d75ebbb73c8cdaa3b2b47749173/leaf-tailer.png)
_Diagram of Rockset ALT architecture_

## About Dhruba Borthakur

[Dhruba Borthakur](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhruba/) is CTO and co-founder of Rockset, responsible for the company's technical direction. He was an engineer on the database team at Facebook, where he was the founding engineer of the [RocksDB](http://rocksdb.org/) data store. Earlier at Yahoo, he was one of the founding engineers of the [Hadoop Distributed File System](https://hadoop.apache.org/). He was also a contributor to the open source [Apache HBase](https://hbase.apache.org/) project. Dhruba previously held various roles at Veritas Software, founded an e-commerce startup, Oreceipt.com, and contributed to [Andrew File System (AFS)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_File_System) at IBM-Transarc Labs. ![dhruba-from-6](https://images.ctfassets.net/1d31s1aajogl/1Rst8GArUnagjFj5qvafzo/c51d058fb652da85ecd2bf2711d9f035/dhruba-from-6.jpg)

## About Rockset

[Rockset](https://rockset.com) is a [real-time analytics](https://rockset.com/real-time-analytics-explained/) database that enables queries on massive, semi-structured data without operational burden. Rockset is serverless and fully managed. It offloads the work of managing configuration, cluster provisioning, denormalization and shard/index management. Rockset is also SOC 2 Type II compliant and offers encryption at rest and in flight, securing and protecting any sensitive data. Most teams can ingest data into Rockset and start executing queries in about 15 minutes, depending on the amount of data ingested.

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**Rockset** is the leading [real-time analytics](https://rockset.com/real-time-analytics-explained/) platform built for the cloud, delivering fast analytics on real-time data with surprising efficiency. Learn more at [rockset.com](https://rockset.com/).