For things that start as academic work, often the original paper is quite helpful. I find it an enjoyable read if you have a background in databases (it actuall

For things that start as academic work, often the original paper is quite helpful. I find it an enjoyable read if you have a background in databases (it actually was a reading for my grad systems class) https://people.csail.mit.edu/stavrosp/papers/vldb2017/VLDB17_TileDB.pdf https://people.csail.mit.edu/stavrosp/papers/vldb2017/VLDB17... The basic jist is: TileDB is substantially faster than alternatives for random writes/reads - this allows for more sophisticated parallel linear algebra algorithms as well as evaluation of predicates.