MySQL Conference and Expo 2008, Day Two
Day two of the conference was a little disappointing, as far as sessions went. There were several time blocks where I simply wasn’t interested in any of the sessions. Instead, I went to the expo hall...
View ArticleWhat happened to Falcon?
I don’t think I have heard anything from the Falcon team for a while. What’s new? Did the project really stall when Jim Starkey left, as Vadim Tkachenko wondered might happen?
View ArticleWhat is the scalable replacement for InnoDB?
A while back a Sun engineer posted an article claiming that the best way to scale MySQL is to shard your database in many instances on a single server, each of which runs in threads that individually...
View ArticleHindsight on a scalable replacement for InnoDB
A while ago I posted about a comment a Sun performance engineer made about a scalable replacement for InnoDB. At the time, I did not believe it referred to Falcon. In hindsight, it seems even clearer...
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