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Disk seeks are evil, so let’s avoid them,...

Posted on by zardosht

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 ad-hoc

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Disk Seeks are Evil, so Let’s Avoid Them,...

Posted on by zardosht

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…

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OpenSQL Camp Boston 2010

Posted on by Bradley C. Kuszmaul

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 (The MIT Computer Science and …

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OpenSQL (2009 Portland) talk on an Open Storage...

Posted on by Bradley C. Kuszmaul

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.

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What is a Performance Model for SSDs?

Posted on by Bradley C. Kuszmaul

Here are the slides and video for my MySQL UC ignite talk on measuring the performance of SSDs.

You can find this talk and other mostly technical material here….
This research was funded in part by the National Science

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