Percona Server 5.6.16-64.0 with TokuDB engine now available

Percona is glad to announce the first ALPHA release of Percona Server 5.6.16-64.0 with TokuDB engine on March 3rd, 2014. Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories.

Based on Percona Server 5.6.16-64.0 including all the features and bug fixes in it, and on TokuDB 7.1.5-rc.3, Percona Server 5.6.16-64.0-tokudb is the first ALPHA release in the Percona Server 5.6 with TokuDB engine series. All of Percona’s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can be found in the 5.6.16-64.0 milestone at Launchpad.

Percona Server now supports TokuDB storage engine. More information on how to install and use TokuDB can be found in the documentation. This feature is currently considered ALPHA quality.

Available TokuDB features:

• TokuDB Compression

Currently available ALPHA features:

• Multiple Clustering Indexes
• Fast Updates with NOAR
• Hot Table Optimization
• TokuDB AUTOINCREMENT implementation
• Prelocking index and range scans

Getting Started Guide can be downloaded here, and the complete documentation in PDF format is available here.

We did our best to eliminate bugs and problems during the testing this release, but this is a software, so bugs are expected. If you encounter them, please report them to our bug tracking system.