In the next week, I’ll be interviewing Paul McCullagh, the architect behind the PBXT storage engine. If you have any questions for Paul, please post them here by Monday 16th November. Note: The idea for this interview was inspired by a previous interview with Heikki Tuuri – creator of InnoDB. You can see the answers [...]
Tokyo Tyrant -The Extras Part III : Write Bottleneck
November 12, 2009 By 3 Comments
This is part 3 of my Tyrant extra’s, part 1 focused on durability, part 2 focused on the perceived performance wall. #3. Tokyo Cabinet Can have only a single writer thread, bottlenecking performance When writing an application using Tokyo Cabinet only one connection can be opened as a “writerâ€Â while the rest are readers. Tyrant [...]
