So why doesn’t PostgreSQL use B+ trees for its index structure? Today, let's discuss this topic.

Deep Information Sciences today unveiled a new storage engine for MySQL that it claims will blow any other database engine out of the water in performance and scalability. The secret to creating a 1 ...

Depending on your needs, check out Skip Lists. Lower constant factors, and easier implimentation. Unless you want them to page from disk as nicely as a B-tree, in which case you're back into the land ...

Database tools provider Tokutek has updated its MySQL storage engine to support live updating of schemas, the company announced Wednesday. Taking a database offline to update the schema can be too ...