New TokuDB v5.2
TokuDB® v5.2 is a drop-in replacement for InnoDB that scales MySQL® from GBs to TBs while improving insert speed, query performance, compression, and online schema flexibility. Uses standard SQL and supports ACID and MVCC.
Monthly Archives: May 2010
In part 1, I discussed why having many disk seeks are bad (they slow down performance), and how fractal tree data structures minimize disk seeks on ad-hoc insertions, whereas B-trees practically guarantee that disk seeks are performed on…
Disk seeks are expensive. Typically, a disk can perform no more than a few hundred seeks per second. So, any database operation that induces a disk seek is going to be slow, perhaps unacceptably slow. Adding disks can sometimes help…
OpenSQL Camp Boston 2010 will be held at the Stata Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 15-17, 2010.
The Stata Center was designed by Frank Gehry and was completed in 2005. The Stata Center houses CSAIL…
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I just spotted the youtube video of my OpenSQL Camp (Portland 2009) talk on An Open Storage Engine API. I talked about some of technical issues for implementing storage engines across many SQL front ends, not just MySQL.…
