The database for solid state drives.

In our previous post we discussed the optimal block-size for B-trees on solid-state drives. A few people mentioned page alignment – an issue that can cause serious performance hits on SSDs if unaccounted for. It’s a complex topic, and we will dedicate two posts to its discussion. In this post we’ll address alignment behavior while reading directly from the block device. In the next post, we’ll talk about partitioning the drive, and the effects of reading from the filesystem instead of reading from the device directly.

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