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Acunu - Cassandra optimized (SSDs, new data structure)

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For some workloads, they achieve 2 orders of magnitude better latency results relative to a vanilla Cassandra distribution. This is achieved through a combination of SSDs and a new data structure (Stratified B-tree).

Acunu White paper. http://bit.ly/jQc423   

Short Blog entries on Cassandra performance

http://bit.ly/mUqWLO Cassandra under heavy write load, Part 1

http://bit.ly/mMT0Ts  Cassandra under heavy write load, Part 2

Remembering B-trees http://bit.ly/lH8fwh

http://bit.ly/lryYbf Copy-on-Write B-tree beaten by Stratified B-tree

http://bit.ly/iJg01H A summary of the above paper

http://bit.ly/jV5j1x More on why Fractal-tree DBs scale better on SSDs. Cache oblivious Fractal Trees

http://slidesha.re/jIRkYj More on streaming data structures : doubling array, fractional cascading, and stratified doubling arrays explained (presentation)  <—- V. Good 

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  • acunu
  • SSDs

• June 27, 2011, 10:14pm

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