Hekaton research makes significant speed improvements to SQL Server 2014

Paul Larson, Microsoft principal researcher, and Mike Zwilling, principal architect, Microsoft SQL Server, discuss how their collaboration led to the data-access improvements of the Hekaton component of SQL Server 2014, which has implications that improves online gaming, real-time inventory analysis, stock trading, and any scenario where data access and indexing speed is critical to a system’s performance.