Calvin Sun

Calvin Sun
Sr. Engineering Manager, Twitter

Calvin Sun is a principal software engineer at the InnoDB group of Oracle. Prior to joining Oracle, he was the development manager of storage engines at MySQL. He has over ten years of database internals experience at Pervasive Software, MySQL and now Oracle. He has an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Science and Technology of China.

Sessions

3:05pm–3:50pm Tuesday, 04/13/2010
InnoDB: Status, Architecture, and New Features
Architecture and Technology
 Location: Ballroom H Level: Novice
Rob Young (Oracle/MySQL ), Calvin Sun (Twitter)
Average rating: *....
(1.50, 8 ratings)
InnoDB is the most popular, reliable and functional of the transactional storage engines available for MySQL. At this session, you will learn the current state of InnoDB and the new features in the InnoDB Plugin. You will also learn how InnoDB works and why those new features improve the performance and scalability. Read more.
3:05pm–3:50pm Wednesday, 04/14/2010
Backup Strategies with InnoDB Hot Backup
Architecture and Technology
 Location: Ballroom D Level: Novice
John Russel (Oracle Corporation), Calvin Sun (Twitter)
Average rating: ***..
(3.00, 1 rating)
InnoDB Hot Backup is the ideal solution for online backups of InnoDB tables in MySQL databases, as well as for backups of MyISAM tables. At this session, you will learn how InnoDB Hot Backup works, and how to develop a backup strategy using the Hot Backup utility. Read more.
10:50am–11:50am Thursday, 04/15/2010
InnoDB Plugin: Performance Features and Benchmarks
Performance Tuning and Benchmarking
 Location: Ballroom C Level: Expert
Calvin Sun (Twitter), Jimmy Yang (Oracle Corporation), John Russel (Oracle Corporation)
Average rating: ***..
(3.00, 3 ratings)
There are many exciting performance features in the InnoDB Plugin. But how to best use them? What are the caveats? At this session, we will describe those performance features in depth. We will also present benchmark results that explore the performance of those features. Read more.
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