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Episode 199: Michael Stonebraker on Current Developments in Databases

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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The Four Pieces of Pie

All of the major database systems are multi-threaded. A better B-tree affects only 10% of the path length, meaning it's not worth doing. If you have a database system and let's say it implements data in main memory, that gets rid of the buffer pool. But if you continue to be multi- threaded, do a right-ahead log and do dynamic record level locking then those three slices of the pie are still there.

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