Zardosht Kasheff
Software Developer, Tokutek

Zardosht has been a senior member of Tokutek’s TokuDB engineering team since 2008. Leveraging Fractal Tree Indexing, TokuDB is a high performance storage engine for MySQL that is designed for write-intensive workloads.

Prior to Tokutek, Zardosht worked as a software design engineer at Microsoft on remote terminal services. Zardosht holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While at MIT, he pursued research on cache-oblivious dynamic search trees under Bradley Kuszmaul at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

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posted over 2 years ago:
Rick, fractal trees are designed to be as good as B-trees on queries and insertions. It's intended for general usage and not to fit in a niche.
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