The Right Read Optimization is Actually Write Optimization
Channel: tcation
Date: 02/05/2012

Presented at the 2012 Percona Live: MySQL Conference & Expo by Leif Walsh of Tokutek.
Slides are at http://form.percona.com/PLMCE2012Slides.html
From the official conference description at http://www.percona.com/live/mysql-conference-2012/sessions/right-read-optimization-actually-write-optimization: 
"Some indexing structures are write optimized in that they are better than B-trees at ingesting data. Other indexing structures are read optimized in that they are better than B-trees at query time. Even within B-trees, there is a tradeoff between write performance and read performance. This talk will present the basics of write optimization, comparing different approaches and what the differences mean for end Users."