21st December 2009, 1 min read

My best blog posts (2009)

As year 2009 comes to an end, I selected a few of my best blog posts.

Database, compression and column stores:

• More database compression means more speed? Right?
• Trading compression for speed with vectorization
• Column stores and row stores: should you care?
• Changing your perspective: horizontal, vertical and hybrid data models
• Run-length encoding part 1, part 2 and part 3.

Hashing (contrarian blog posts):

• Sensible hashing of variable-length strings is impossible
• Do hash tables work in constant time?

Academia and Research:

• Attributes of good research
• Become independent of peer review
• The hard truth about research grants
• The secret behind radical innovation