Matt Jaffe was on a recent episode of Go Time and also gave this talk at OSCON recently on indexes as a first class citizen. In this video Matt talks about a piece of software that’s purely an index, not a database, not a datastore, just the index — and optimizing that single piece of software to be very fast!

Here’s a quick breakdown of an index as a first class citizen:

• Standalone application, not just a data structure
• Horizontally scalable, distributed
• FAST, indexes should make things faster
• Flexible, integrates with other datastores and data types

Also, learn more about Pilosa to see Matt’s work in action.

Matt Jaffey joined the show and talked with us about Pilosa, building distributed index with Go, and other interesting projects and news.