Slava Akhmechet, Michael Glukhovsky - RethinkDB
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Founders, RethinkDB
Slava Akhmechet, Michael GlukhovskyComputer software and hardware have greatly advanced over the last 30 years, but database architectures haven't changed in response. In this talk from the 2010 O'Reilly MySQL Conference, Slava Akhmechet and Michael Glukhovsky of RethinkDB describe a whole new style of database to take advantage of new developments like fast solid state hard drives and new research on file systems. They go fairly deep into a technical discussion about the algorithms they used and how they had to be modified to suit the new technology.
While computer hardware has made steady progress for the last several decades, in the last few years solid state hard drives have emerged as a disruptive change. They give almost 200 times the performance for only three times the price. This has the potential to change the storage industry as completely as fast graphics cards changed the gaming industry. But harnessing that speed requires new algorithms, architectures, and tuning. Small companies like RethinkDB have an advantage in that tuning a database architecture for optimal performance is a too hard a problem to solve with brute force and money. A small, innovative team applying cutting edge research has the advantage.
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Slava Akhmechet has built technology for infrastructure software, consumer web, and financial companies. He is interested in high level programming languages, compilers, data storage systems, and software start-ups. If he had to eat one type of food for the rest of his life, it would be sushi. He is now on leave from the Ph.D. program in Computer Science at Stony Brook University, working on RethinkDB.
Michael Glukhovsky is a founder of RethinkDB, the database for solid-state drives. He is passionate about producing high-quality technology that solves real problems. Outside work, he’s interested in linguistics, cognitive science, and interaction design. There’s nothing in life he loves more than a good pastrami sandwich, and immersing himself in completely foreign cultures.
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This free podcast is from our MySQL Conference from O'Reilly Media series.
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