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Percona Live, NYC

Posted on by Martin Farach-Colton

Yesterday, Percona held Percona Live NYC…, which they describe as an “intensive one-day MySQL summit.” They meant it. It was like drinking from a firehose. There was too much for me to give a complete report, so I’d like

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Never Settle for a “B”

Posted on by Martin Farach-Colton

OldSQL… DBs based on B-trees have some well-known problems and workarounds. TokuDB is a NewSQL storage engines based on Fractal Tree indexing, so the natural question is how InnoDB practice translates into TokuDB. This post gives a quick overview. Enjoy!

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SoMoLo Data

Posted on by Lawrence Schwartz

SoMoLo Data – Social, Mobile, and Local
A Review of MassTLC’s “The Global Impact of Mobility” event this past Friday
MassTLC celebrated World Enterprise Mobility Day on Friday by hosting an event near MIT on the “Global Impact of …

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Covering Indexes: How many indexes do you need?

Posted on by Martin Farach-Colton

I’ve recently been blogging… about how partitioning is a poor man’s answer to covering indexes. I got the following comment from Jaimie Sirovich:
“There are many environments where you could end up creating N! indices to cover queries for queries

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Elephants on a Trapeze: Keeping Big Data Agile

Posted on by Martin Farach-Colton

On April 1st, the Department of Computer Science… at Rutgers University, where I am a professor, held an open house. I gave a talk called “Elephants on a Trapeze: Keeping Big Data Agile”.
The talk is an introduction to performance

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