Laine Campbell, Owner and CEO, PalominoDB
Tokutek’s ability to improve database performance brings an entirely new value proposition to MySQL.
TokutekAdrian Roston, CTO, Frequency
The ability to change schemas and indexes on the fly and no need to repair fragmented indexes has led to a simplification of our environment and reduced maintenance windows
Tokutek and PalominoDB Partner to Bring Scale, Performance to Database Deployments
MySQL storage engine provider joins forces with leading database consultants to deliver support for growing number of MySQL and MariaDB customers Lexington, MA – (May 2, 2012) – Tokutek, the leader in high-performance and agile database storage engines, today announced a strategic partnership with PalominoDB, a premier database operations and engineering consultancy, to provide database […]
Percona MySQL Conference and Expo Week in Review
Thanks to all of those who came by our booth and to see Leif’s presentation on Read Optimization, and to my Lightning Talk on OLTP and OLAP at the Percona MySQL Conference and Expo. It was an incredible week and a great place to launch TokuDB v6.0 from! A big thanks to Percona for a great event, to Pythian for […]
OLTP and OLAP – Have Your Cake and Eat it Too!
Looks like we’ll be having some more fun at the Percona Live MySQL Conference! In addition to our booth and my colleague Tim’s talk, my lightning talk was accepted. The title is “OLTP and OLAP – Have Your Cake and Eat it Too!” The lightning talks, given in a TBD order, will start Wednesday evening […]
Looking for Global Collisions
On Monday, I took a break from planning for the upcoming Percona Live MySQL Conference (where we have a session, lightning talk, booth, and other misc activities planned) to go attend the UK-Massachusetts Innovation Economies Conference at the MIT Media Lab. The event featured Gov. Deval Patrick, MIT Media Lab Director Joi Ito, industry experts such as Sheila Marcelo (founder […]
Win Free MySQL Conference Tickets!
Tokutek and Percona are giving away free tickets to the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo (worth $995 each), and you can win them! We’re also giving away copies of High Performance MySQL, 3rd Edition (worth $55 each). This year’s event is the best ever, with a better lineup of talks and speakers than ever before. It’s […]
Big Data and MySQL – a Discussion with SiliconANGLE on theCUBE
Given all the focus and hype on Big Data, I was excited to have the chance at the recent O’Reilly Strata Show to sit down with Jeff Kelly, one of the top rated “Big Data” analysts, to give a MySQL perspective. Below is my interview with Jeff Kelly and David Floyer. http://siliconangle.tv/video/cube-strata-conference-2012-lawrence-schwartz In the segment, you’ll […]
O’Reilly Strata 2012: The Year of the Data Scientist
We had the privilege this past week to be invited to be part of the 2012 O’Reilly Strata “Making Data Work” Conference. Some of our photos from the event are here. At the event, we were excited to have Tokutek described in front of the approximately 2,500 attendees during the keynote sessions. Overall, the diversity of topics […]
Evidenzia Upgrades to TokuDB v5.2 to Address Storage Growth and Scale Performance
Ensuring sufficient disk I/O to catch copyright violations at network speed. Evidenzia GmbH & Co. KG Issues addressed: Storage growth, including maxed-out disk I/O utilization Performance issues and business impact due to slow selects Inability to revise data schema on the fly The Company: Evidenzia GmbH & Co. KG is one of the leading partners of the software, […]
Tokutek Selected as a Finalist for O’Reilly Strata Conference
We are excited to announce that we’ve been named as one of ten finalists selected for the startup showcase at the O’Reilly Strata “Making Data Work” Conference at the end of this month in Santa Clara, California. The startup showcase will be held on February 29th, starting at 6:30 pm. The conference offers a great overview […]
New England’s Victory (for Big Data)
While it might not have been New England’s weekend on the Big Gridiron, it was certainly New England’s day for Big Data at the New England Database Summit on Friday at MIT. The summit was well attended, with 350 registrants and keynotes from prominent MySQL users such as Mark Callaghan. The coverage was quite broad, […]
FictionPress Selects TokuDB for Consistent Performance and Fast Disaster Recovery
FictionPress Issues addressed: Support complex and efficient indexes at 100+ million rows. Predicable and consistent performance regardless of data size growth. Fast recovery. Ensuring Predictable Performance at Scale The Company: FictionPress operates both FictionPress.com and FanFiction.net and is home to over 6 million works of fiction, with millions of writers/readers participating from around the world […]
Xing Li, CTO, FictionPress
Hot Schema changes are a powerful capability which we use to minimize downtime during system-wide upgrades and shorten our application/schema development cycle.
Top Ten for 2011
It’s almost the end of the year – that means holiday cards, shopping, cooking, parties, and the inevitable year-end top lists (including gems like this one). In the spirit of end of year list making, we fed our 60+ blogs this year through Google Analytics to find out what our own top ten blogs […]
Limelight Networks Chooses TokuDB for New Cloud Storage Service
Limelight Networks Issue addressed: Managing metadata at exabyte scale Delivering Agile Storage in the Cloud with Billions of Assets The Company: Founded in 2001, Limelight Networks, Inc (NASDAQ: LLNW) is an Internet platform and services company that integrates the most business-critical parts of the online content value chain. Limelight’s cloud-based services enable customers to profit […]
TokuDB v5.2 Beta Program
With the release of TokuDB v5.0 last March, we delivered a powerful and agile storage engine that broke through traditional MySQL scalability and performance barriers. As deployments of TokuDB have grown more varied, one request we have repeatedly heard from customers and prospects, especially in areas such as online advertising, social media, and clickstream […]
Scaling MySQL with TokuDB Webinar – Video and Slides Now Available
Thanks to everyone who signed up and attended the webinar I gave this week with Tim Callaghan on Scaling MySQL. For those who missed it and are interested, the video and slides are now posted here. A brief description of the webinar is also below. MySQL implementations are often kept relatively small, often just […]
Webinar: Scaling MySQL with TokuDB
MySQL implementations are often kept relatively small, often just a few hundred GB or less. Anything beyond this quickly leads to painful operational problems such as poor insertion rates, slow queries, hours to days offline for schema changes, prolonged downtime for dump/reload, etc. The promise of scalable MySQL has remained largely unfulfilled, until TokuDB. Time: […]
The Big Data Community at the MassTLC unConference
I had the pleasure of being invited to blog at the MassTLC unConference on Friday. The event was a full day of diverse topics and discussions ranging from the latest in recipe sharing sites, to entrepreneurial CEO war stories, to hot trends in venture investing. An excerpt covering Big Data from my MassTLC blog […]