Yearly Archives: 2010

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

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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

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

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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.…

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What is a Performance Model for SSDs?

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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…

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Fractal Tree Video from OpenSQL Camp (Portland in...

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I recently discovered that there’s a youtube video of the talk I gave at OpenSQL Camp in Portland in 2009.
This is a whiteboard presentation and is less well developed than the talk I gave a the MySQL…

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“How Fractal Trees Work” talk at MySQL...

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Here’s the talk I presented at the MySQL User Conference. This talk is a fairly technical talk on how fractal trees work.
You can find this talk and other mostly technical material at http://tokutek.com/technology/.

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TokuDB Indexes are NOT in-memory (and not hash...

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Another plug for Bradley’s talk Thursday morning at the MySQL User’s conference. Spending the day talking to DBA’s and other potential users of TokuDB, I (Zardosht) noticed the same question/theme come up numerous times in conversation. “Oh, so your indexes…

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Forgot the Titles for Tokutek’s MySQL UC...

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I forgot to include the titles for my talks.
The ignite talk Wednesday at 7pm is “What Is a Performance Model for SSDs?“
The ignite talk is a 5-minute talk at tonight’s Ignite MySQL session organized by Brian…

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Tokutek MySQL UC Talks

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I (Bradley C. Kuszmaul) am presenting two talks at the MySQL User Conference.
The first talk is a 5-minute talk at tonight’s Ignite MySQL session organized by Brian Aker. I’ll present some performance measurements on the Intel X25E SSD.…

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Customer Success Story: KAYAK uses ad hoc indexing

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Fast insertion – what Tokutek excels at – isn’t only important for handling high data rates. It also enables a new way to extract value from an existing database called ad hoc indexing. KAYAK has a billion rows stored in…

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