Roman Nozdrin is an engineer at MariaDB who works on ColumnStore, the columnar storage engine for MariaDB Server. He mentored ColumnStore projects in MariaDB’s Google Summer of Code 2022, and at MariaDB Fest 2025 in Brussels he gave the talk Ascend to New Heights: Discover What ColumnStore can Really Do for You, where he was listed as Principal Software Engineer, ColumnStore.
At DuckDB × MySQL Day he presents When the Sea Lion Learns to Quack: DuckDB as a MariaDB Storage Engine.
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