Tag: MySQL

Cassandra and Sharded MySQL

Stefan Piesche, Constant Contact CTO, spoke at the Data @Scale conference in Boston, hosted by Facebook. He discussed how Constant Contact moved from scaling data vertically in large DB2 databases attached to even larger SANs, to using Cassandra as a horizontally scalable data tier for key/value type data. CTCT used to scale data vertically in large DB2 […]

Space: the Final Frontier – a story of MySQL Compression

Space: the final fontier. Space, as in disk space, that is, was the driving factor behind a recent data compression project I worked on, along with a whole host of individuals and teams at Constant Contact. Due to ongoing data growth, my team was tasked with finding the best option for compressing data within the Contacts […]