At Percona Live, Dave Stokes talked to Ovais Tariq and Himank Chaudhary, Co-Founders of Tigris Data. Tigris is a Serverless NoSQL database and search platform that offers an open-source alternative to MongoDB and DynamoDB. Ovais and Himank discussed what had changed since Percona Live 2022 and where the product is heading.
Dave joined Percona last February 2022. Dave is MySQL Community Manager and the author of MySQL & JSON - A Practical Programming Guide
Engineering leader with 15 years of experience in database infrastructure and site reliability engineering. Currently building the core storage platform and leading production engineering for storage at Uber.
Ovais is a Sr. Manager in the Core Storage team at Uber. He leads the Operational Storage Platform group with a focus on providing a world-class platform that powers all the critical business functions and lines of business at Uber. The platform serves tens of millions of QPS with an availability of 99.99% or more and stores tens of Petabytes of operational data.
Himank is the Tech Lead of Docstore at Uber. His primary focus area is building distributed databases that scale along with Uber’s hyper-growth. Prior to Uber, he worked at Yahoo in the mail backend team to build a metadata store. Himank holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from the State University of New York with a specialization in distributed systems. Himank has proven ability to learn challenging concepts quickly and he has developed competencies in diverse areas. He easily adapt to change and welcome the opportunity of a new environment.
Specialties: Application Development, Algorithms, Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, Data Intensive Computing, Big Data, Networking, MultiThreading, Android Platform, Parallel Architecture, OpenMP/MPI, GPU Programming Languages: C,C++, Java, python
Percona is a Bronze sponsor at AWS re:Invent, November 30-December 4 in Las Vegas. We’ll be on the Expo floor with the cloud community — talking open source databases, performance tuning, and data infrastructure that holds up in AWS production environments.
November 30-December 4, 2026
Percona is a Silver sponsor at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, November 9-12 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Find us in the Solutions Showcase to talk databases on Kubernetes — performance at scale, high availability, and what actually breaks when you run MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB in production clusters.
November 9-12, 2026
Percona is a Gold sponsor at PGConf Europe, October 20-23 in Valencia. We contribute to the PostgreSQL community year-round — this is where we catch up with contributors, operators, and the people running PostgreSQL in production.
October 20-23, 2026
