May 29, 2008

Yahoo scales its web analytics database to petabyte range

Information Week has an article with details on what sounds like Yahoo’s core web analytics database. Highlights include:

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13 Responses to “Yahoo scales its web analytics database to petabyte range”

  1. dave on May 30th, 2008 7:06 am

    actually there was a bit more to it – the article described a small startup acquired by yahoo that supported their changes around mysql architecture (mahit? i forget the exact name)

    as for their column-store comment, i saw that too though they offered zero in the way of supporting evidence, though one may assume that too many yahoo properties rely on mutltvariable-intensive searches and so wouldn’t be quite as well served…

  2. Curt Monash on May 30th, 2008 5:04 pm

    On the column store point — sometimes there isn’t much difference between a vertically partitioned row store and a true column store, as per http://www.dbms2.com/2007/03/19/datallegro-versus-vertica-columnar-systems/.

    CAM

  3. Curt Monash on May 30th, 2008 5:08 pm

    Eric Lai of Computerworld has an article too: http://www.infoworld.com/news/feeds/08/05/22/Yahoo-claims-2-petabyte-database-is-worlds-biggest–busiest.html

    Again, he says PostgreSQL, not MySQL. The fact that it’s an acquisition may help explain why it’s not MySQL. 🙂

    The name was Mahat, with I gather is a philosophically-inspiring word in Sanskrit or something.

    CAM

  4. Daniel Weinreb on May 31st, 2008 6:55 am

    The claim that they got great performance advantages by optimizing for a specific application sounds very plausible to me. If you look at the published literature from companies like Amazon and Google about their high-performance, high-availability systems, these papers explain all kinds of interesting techniques that buy lots of performance by providing semantics that are unconventional, but carefully optimized for the particular needs and tradeoffs of their applications.

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    because Oracle won’t support their custom DB structure.

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