Last time I talked about point queries. The conclusion was that big databases and point queries don’t mix. It’s ok to do them from time to time, but it’s not how you’re going to use your database, unless you have a lot of time. Today, I’d like to talk about range queries, which seem much [...]
Insertion and Queries Databases are complicated beasts, but I’d like to focus on the storage engine, just the part that talks to the storage system, and doesn’t have to worry about SQL, etc.: just transactions, concurrency, compression, updates and queries. In the next couple of blog entry, I’d like to just focus on updates (insertions [...]
