Akiban

Acquired Company

Akiban was a MySQL storage engine that performed automatic denormalization of relational tables to speed up join queries.

History

Akiban started in Boston in 2009. They were acquired by FoundationDB in 2013 and the development team switched over to integrate Akiban's technology into that system.

Query Execution

Tuple-at-a-Time Model

Query Interface

SQL

Storage Architecture

Disk-oriented

Storage Organization

Heaps

System Architecture

Shared-Everything