Part 01 · How a Database Thinks
Sequential vs Random I/O
Sequential I/ORandom I/OIOPSThroughput
Reading 1M orders in a row is fast, jumping to 1M random places is not. Why this one fact shapes logs, indexes, LSM trees and almost everything else.
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