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Write Optimization: Myths, Comparison,...

Posted on by leif

In my last post, we talked about the read/write tradeoff of indexing data structures, and some ways that people augment B-trees in order to get better write performance. We also talked about the significant drawbacks of each method,…

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My Talk on Sunday at Oracle Open World

Posted on by bradley


 
 
Challenges of Big Databases with MySQL
Many database management tasks become difficult as you move from millions of rows and gigabytes of data to billions of rows and terabytes of data. Such tasks include ingesting…

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Are You Forcing MySQL to Do Twice as Many JOINs as...

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Baron Schwartz
This guest post is from our friends at Percona. They’re hosting Percona Live London from October 24-25, 2011. Percona Live is a two day summit with 100% technical sessions led by some…

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From Under the Desk to the Cloud

Posted on by Lawrence Schwartz

 
Review of the O’Reilly Strata Making Data Work Conference
(reprinted from my guest blog for the Cloud Council of 7)
Monica Rogati of LinkedIn told a story of the…

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Write Optimization: Myths, Comparison,...

Posted on by leif

Some indexing structures are write optimized in that they are better than B-trees at ingesting data. Other indexing structures are read optimized in that they are better than B-trees at query time. Even within B-trees, there is a tradeoff between…

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Compression Benchmarking: Size vs. Speed (I want...

Posted on by Tim Callaghan

I’m creating a library of benchmarks and test suites that will run as part of a Continuous Integration (CI) process here at Tokutek. My goal is to regularly measure several aspects of our storage engine over time: performance,…

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Online Advertiser Intent Media Selects TokuDB over...

Posted on by Lawrence Schwartz

Intent Media
Issue addressed: Ad hoc analytics on clickstream data arriving too fast for InnoDB or NoSQL to handle.
TokuDB powers an online advertising application
The Company: Headquartered in New York, Intent Media is a fast-growing…

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Ask What Your Database Can Do for Your Country

Posted on by Lawrence Schwartz

One of President John Kennedy’s most memorable phrases is “ask not what your country can do for you –  ask what can you do for your country”.  I got to thinking about this over lunch with a fellow…

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Database Insights from Archimedes to the Houston...

Posted on by Lawrence Schwartz

According to a recent MIT Sloan Management Review study, top performing organizations use analytics 5 times more than lower performers. That’s pretty astounding. And while we all know about the ocean/lake/waves/(your favorite water analogy) of Big Data we…

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May the Index be with you!

Posted on by Lawrence Schwartz

 
The summer’s end is rapidly approaching — in the next two weeks or so, most people will be settling back into work. Time to change your mindset, re-evaluate your skills and see if you are ready to go back…

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