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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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Web Site Update

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We just updated our web site and blogs. We hope the update didn’t cause any trouble for people trying to read the blogs or download TokuDB, our MySQL storage engine. In addition to a new look, we now provide pricing as well as easier downloads.

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Cache Miss Rate as a function of Cache Size

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I saw Mark Callaghan’s post, and his graph showing miss rate as a function of cache size for InnoDB running MySQL. He plots miss rate against cache size and compares it to two simple models:

A linear model where…

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Sponsoring OpenSQL Camp 2009

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We’re supporting the OpenSQL Camp, which will be held in Portland on November 14.
One of my objectives for the camp is to make progress on a universal storage engine API, to make it possible to use…

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Sorting a Terabyte in 197 seconds

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Sorting a Terabyte in 197 seconds
I just returned from The 21st ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), held in Calgary, where I gave a talk about my entry to the sorting contest. I sorted…

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Autoincrement Semantics

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In this post I’m going to talk about how TokuDB’s implementation of auto increment works, and contrast it to the behavior of MyISAM and InnoDB. We feel that the TokuDB behavior is easier to understand, more standard-compliant and offers higher…

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Another look at improving TPC-H-like queries...

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Summary: An alternate approach, offered in response to our original post, provides excellent improvements for smaller databases, but clustered indexes offer better performance as database size increases. (This posting is by Dave.)

Jay Pipes suggested an alternate approach…

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Improving TPC-H-like queries – Q17

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Executive Summary: A query like TPC-H Query 17 can be sped up by large factors by using straight_joins and clustering indexes. (This entry posted by Dave.)

In a previous post, we wrote about queries like TPC-H query 2,…

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Long Index Keys

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In this post we’ll describe a query that accrued significant performance advantages from using a relatively long index key. (This posting is by Zardosht and Bradley.)

We ran across this query recently when interacting with a customer (who gave…

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