InfiniDB Reviews

InfiniDB Description

InfiniDB is a column-store DBMS that is optimized for OLAP workloads. It supports Massive Paralllel Processing (MPP) thanks to its distributed architecture. It uses MySQL as its front end so that MySQL-savvy users can migrate to InfiniDB quickly. Users can connect to InfiniDB with any MySQL connector. InfiniDB applies MVCC to do concurrency control. It uses the term System Change Number (SCN), to indicate a particular version of the system. It uses three structures in its Block Resolution Manager (BRM), version buffer, version substitution, and version buffer block manger, to manage multiple versions. InfiniDB applies deadlock detection to resolve conflicts. InfiniDB uses MySQL as its front end and supports all MySQL syntaxes including foreign keys. InfiniDB is a columnar DBMS. InfiniDB applies range partitioning to each column and stores the minimum and maximal values of each partition in a small structure called an extent map.