Explore modern analytical database systems in this comprehensive lecture from Carnegie Mellon University's Advanced Database Systems course. Delve into distributed query execution, system architectures, and the push vs. pull debate. Examine shared disk implementations, object stores, and the commoditization of OLAP. Investigate system catalogs, query optimizers, file formats, and execution engines. Gain valuable insights from Prof. Andy Pavlo as he covers key concepts and trends in analytical database design and implementation. Access accompanying slides for a deeper understanding of the material presented in this 53-minute video.