[ccleve]

I'd love to learn more. I'm in need of a fast engine.

What proprietary engines do you know of that I can look at?

Do you have more details on your own designs? Anything you can share?

[ddorian43]

See scylladb. They're doing most of the grandparent is talking about (per-core sharding, async everything, disk/io/network scheduler, dpdk, custom filesystem etc).