by Leif.Walsh | Feb 13, 2014 | MySQL
Today we are thrilled to announce the availability of the latest release (1.4.0) of TokuMX, our high-performance distribution of MongoDB. For those of you just joining us, TokuMX is an open-source distribution of MongoDB that shares much of the code, and all of the...
by Dave Rosenlund | Dec 6, 2013 | MySQL
Nominate Tokutek for the 2013 Best Technology Achievement Crunchies award! Help us be recognized for our database performance engines, TokuMX™ and TokuDB, and our revolutionary Fractal Tree® technology. Nominations will only be accepted until December 15, 2013 at...
by Tim.Callaghan | Oct 18, 2013 | MySQL
Tokutek is pleased to announce today’s release of TokuMX v1.3. The goal of this release was to bring full MongoDB v2.4 compatibility (with the noted exception of Text Search and Geospatial Indexes). The initial release of TokuMX was based on MongoDB v2.2, but...
by Dave Rosenlund | Oct 16, 2013 | MySQL
Tokutek is proud to be a sponsor of the MongoDB Boston 2013 event in Boston next Friday, October 25. The annual one-day conference is dedicated to MongoDB and is featuring all new advanced sessions this year. A few things to look forward to according to...
by Tim.Callaghan | Oct 14, 2013 | MySQL
Today we released TokuDB v7.1, which includes the following important features and fixes: Added ability for users to view lock information via information_schema.tokudb_trx, information_schema.tokudb_locks, and information_schema.tokudb_lock_waits tables. Changed the...
by Dave Rosenlund | Sep 25, 2013 | MySQL
Save Time & Money – Do It Right The First Time SPEAKER: Tim Callaghan, VP Engineering, Tokutek DATE: Thursday, September 26th TIME: 1pm ET If you are thinking of using the leading NoSQL database in a project, learn just how easy it is to get started with...
by Tim.Callaghan | Sep 5, 2013 | MySQL
We’ve been hard at work on TokuMX since it’s initial release just over 2 months ago. Today we released TokuMX v1.2 which includes Hot Backup in the Enterprise Edition. Hot Backup allows users to create a backup of a running TokuMX primary or secondary...
by Leif.Walsh | Jul 23, 2013 | MySQL
Since we released TokuMX, one of the most frequent requests has been for a migration tool. TokuMX has a completely different storage format than MongoDB, which means that you have to actually move all of your data out of MongoDB and into TokuMX, you can’t just...
by Martin.FarachColton | Jun 19, 2013 | MySQL
Tokutek is known for its full-featured fast-indexing technology. MongoDB is known for its great document-based data model and ease of use. TokuMX, version 1.0, combines the best of both worlds. So what, exactly, is TokuMX? The simplest (but incomplete) answer is that...
by Martin.FarachColton | Jun 11, 2013 | MySQL
As promised, the Enterprise Edition of TokuDB®, Version 7, is ready. TokuDB Version 7, Enterprise Edition, introduces Hot Backup. You can now back up all your TokuDB tables directly from MySQL or MariaDB, with no down time. In addition, TokuDB Enterprise Edition comes...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Jun 3, 2013 | MySQL
Over several blog posts, Tim has presented performance results on large data sets of TokuMX, our MongoDB product with fractal tree indexes integrated, side by side with MongoDB. Results look good. We’ve shown improved throughput numbers on a sysbench benchmark,...
by Tokutek | Apr 29, 2013 | MySQL
With this version, the source code is now freely available under the GPL License v2. For more details, see our blog here. Open source pioneer Mozilla has been using TokuDB to manage its MySQL-driven Datazilla Data cluster, an open-source system for managing and...
by Leif.Walsh | Apr 26, 2013 | MySQL
Since we had the pleasure to announce that TokuDB is open source on Monday, it’s been a thrilling ride. With several members of the team out west all week, back on the east coast we’ve been seeing quite a lot of questions, suggestions, and exciting results. Here are...
by Tokutek | Apr 25, 2013 | MySQL
We wanted to thank everyone for naming Tokutek the Corporate Contributor of the Year 2013 for ongoing contribution to the MySQL community. The MySQL Community Awards are given annually to the people and companies that support the MySQL ecosystem. The MySQL Community...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Apr 24, 2013 | MySQL
Since we announced that TokuDB is now open source, there has been a lot of positive feedback (thanks!) and also some questions about the details. I want to take this opportunity to give a quick high level guide to describe what our repositories on Github are. Here are...
by Tokutek | Apr 23, 2013 | MySQL
I enjoyed Stewart Smith’s MySQL storage engine blog last week. In it he noted “I cannot emphasize how much more interesting TokuDB would be if it were open source.” Well, with our open source announcement yesterday, hopefully we are getting...
by Martin.FarachColton | Apr 22, 2013 | MySQL
Every few months, I get the fun job of announcing what’s new in TokuDB®, but this time is special. With Version 7, TokuDB for MySQL and MariaDB is going open source. The free Community Edition is fully functional and fully performant. It has all the compression...
by Tokutek | Apr 9, 2013 | MySQL
If T.S. Eliot were a MySQL DBA, I think he would have been more upbeat about April. We are gearing up for an incredible second half of April. We will be presenting three separate sessions at the Percona Live: MySQL Conference and Expo 2013, April 22-25, in Santa...
by Tim.Callaghan | Mar 20, 2013 | MySQL
We recently resumed our discussion around bringing Fractal Tree indexes to MongoDB. This effort includes Tokutek’s interview with Jeff Kelly at Strata as well as my two recent tech blogs which describe the compression achieved on a generic MongoDB data set and...
by Tokutek | Jan 22, 2013 | MySQL
University of Montreal Tracks Genomic Data With Tokutek’s TokuDB. Faster insertion rates, improved scalability and agility support lab’s fast growing research database as it grows from 100s of GBs to 1 TB and beyond. Issue addressed: MySQL database used for genomic...
