Bradley C. Kuszmaul

Research Scientist, MIT and Chief Architect, Tokutek

How TokuDB Fractal Tree Databases Work
8 minutes, 3.8mb, recorded 2010-04-15
Bradley C. Kuszmaul

Metrics have to be state of the art to measure performance on SSDs, solid state drives. In this short yet technical talk, Dr. Bradley Kuszmaul from Tokutech and MIT discusses his own experiences. Comparing InnoDB to his own team's TokuDB he discusses why the fractal based model is faster at dealing with insertions. Going through the thought process involved in speeding up database design, Dr. Kuszmaul discusses using simplified models for speeding up the bandwidth of read/write processes.


Dr. Bradley Kuszmaul’s research focuses on developing computer systems and hardware that behave well both in practice and in theory. His entry won 5 out of 6 categories in Jim Gray’s 2007 sorting benchmark contest, sorting a terabyte in 197 seconds. He formerly architected Akamai’s distributed data collection system, was a Yale Professor of Computer Science and was a principal network architect for the Thinking Machines Connection Machine CM-5 Supercomputer. He was one of the developers of the MIT Cilk multithreaded programming system and wrote, in Cilk++, winning entries for 4 out of 12 of problems in the 2009 Intel Threading Challenge. Dr. Kuszmaul a founder and Chief Architect at Tokutek and is a Research Scientist in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL).  -- Biography and photo courtesy of Bradley C. Kuszmaul/Tokutek.

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Photo: Photo Courtesy: Bradley C. Kuszmaul/Tokutek.