Renormalize presentation from Akiban Technologies - January meeting
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Guys,
We will restart our regularly scheduled meetings, this time on a new location. Donovan Buck from BrandExtract LLC offered to host our meetings, so this will be our new regular location. Thanks Donovan! :)
This month we will have a presentation from Akiban Technologies on a very cool MySQL storage engine that is under active development. See below for the description.
TOPIC
As operational database schemas become complex, users resort to denormalization to handle performance issues. This includes a range of techniques from materialized views to using MySQL as a key-value store for blobs containing full objects. While denormalization solves immediate bottlenecks, it comes at a hefty price.
In this presentation Ari will explore common denormalization approaches and tradeoffs using real world examples. He will then present a solution under development at Akiban Technologies to alleviate these same problems much more efficiently, and allow users to get the best of both worlds.
Akiban Server for Developers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ez0BD6cuqo) (2 minutes)
Intro to Table-Grouping (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxVHTYiwCaI) (2 minutes)
Akiban presents at Under the Radar (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYlmlp2j_vY) (6 minutes)
BIO
Ari Weil is Product Manager for Akiban Technologies and covers markets, projects and product direction. Prior to Akiban, Ari worked as product manager for Quest Software's application and database performance management products. He has a Bachelor's from The Ohio State University.
Ari @Aweil (https://twitter.com/#!/Aweil)
Akiban @AkibanTech (https://twitter.com/#!/AkibanTech)
I hope to see you all there.
--Joao