by Bill Karwin | Jan 17, 2013 | Insight for Developers, MySQL, Percona Events
I’ll be presenting a webinar next Wednesday, January 23 at 10 a.m. (Pacific Time), about issues application developers should think about for scaling out read-query traffic using multiple MySQL instances in a replication pair. Specifically, about the care we...
by Tokutek | Jan 15, 2013 | MySQL
We wanted to take a moment to say thanks to all of our customers and to the wider MySQL and MariaDB community. Today we announced a doubling of our customer base for the year ending December 31, 2012. Significant milestones over the last year included new technology...
by Tokutek | Jan 11, 2013 | MySQL
TokuDB® is a proven solution that scales MySQL® and MariaDB® from GBs to TBs with unmatched insert and query speed, compression, replication performance and online schema flexibility. Tokutek’s recently launched TokuDB v6.6 delivers all of these features and...
by Martin.FarachColton | Jan 8, 2013 | MySQL
We are excited to announce TokuDB® v6.6, the latest version of Tokutek’s flagship storage engine for MySQL and MariaDB. This version offers three types of performance improvements: in-memory, multi-client and fast updates. Although TokuDB is optimized for large...
by Tokutek | Dec 27, 2012 | MySQL
Well, it’s that time of the year again for top ten lists. There have been many versions showing up on the web the last few days, including Time Magazine’s “Top 10 Everything of 2012” list, with 55 wide ranging lists! Last year we started using Google...
by Tokutek | Oct 11, 2012 | MySQL
The core technology behind Tokutek is based on the academic research by our founders: Michael Bender, Bradley Kuszmaul and Martin Farach-Colton. They are all still in academia, in addition to their work at Tokutek. Back in March, the White House kicked off a new...
by Martin.FarachColton | Sep 25, 2012 | MySQL
We are excited to announce TokuDB® v6.5, the latest version of Tokutek’s flagship storage engine for MySQL and MariaDB. This version offers optimization for Flash as well as more hot schema change operations for improved agility. We’ll be posting more...
by Tokutek | Sep 24, 2012 | MySQL
On Friday our CEO John Partridge was named a “Tech Luminary” in the 17th annual Innovation All Stars award, which is given jointly by Mass High Tech (MHT) and the Boston Business Journal (BBJ). As noted in MHT by the editor, Chris McIntosh, the Luminary...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Jul 23, 2012 | MySQL
Three rules on making indexes around queries to provide good performance Application performance often depends on how fast a query can respond and query performance almost always depends on good indexing. So one of the quickest and least expensive ways to increase...
by Tim.Callaghan | Jul 18, 2012 | MySQL
TokuDB v6.1 is now generally available and can be downloaded here. New features include: Added support for MariaDB 5.5 (5.5.25) The TokuDB storage engine is now available with all the additional functionality of MariaDB 5.5. Added HCAD support to our MySQL 5.5 version...
by Tokutek | May 30, 2012 | MySQL
TokuDB® is a proven solution that scales MySQL® and MariaDB® from GBs to TBs with unmatched insert and query speed, compression, and online schema flexibility. Tokutek’s recently launched TokuDB v6 delivers all of these features and more, with the introduction of high...
by kuszmaul | May 24, 2012 | MySQL
Many database management tasks become difficult as you move from millions of rows and gigabytes of data to billions of rows and terabytes of data. Such tasks include ingesting data while maintaining indexes; changing schemas without downtime; and...
by Michael.Bender | May 18, 2012 | MySQL
This Saturday afternoon in New York, Martin Farach-Colton and I will run a tutorial on the theoretical foundations of memory sensitive computing to be be held at the 44th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC). Here is the program for the tutorial. Topics include...
by Tokutek | May 16, 2012 | MySQL
Tackling machine data on the ground to ensure successful operations for NASA in space Issues addressed: Scaling MySQL to multi-terabytes Insertion rates as InnoDB hit a performance wall Schema flexibility to handle an evolving data model The Company: Southwest...
by Tokutek | May 14, 2012 | MySQL
We are excited to have Gerry Narvaja start today at Tokutek! Gerry has spent more than 25 years in the software industry, most of them working with databases for different kinds of applications, from embedded to large-scale web products. Gerry worked first at MySQL,...
by Tokutek | May 2, 2012 | MySQL
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...
by Martin.FarachColton | Apr 30, 2012 | MySQL
TokuDB v6.0 is full of great improvements, like getting rid of slave lag, better compression, improved checkpointing, and support for XA. I’m happy to announce that TokuDB v6.0 is now generally available and can be downloaded here. Sysbench Performance I wanted...
by kuszmaul | Apr 20, 2012 | MySQL
Challenges of Big Databases with MySQL Many database management tasks become difficult as you move from millions of rows and gigabytes of data to billions of rows and terabytes of data. Such tasks include ingesting data while maintaining indexes;...
by Tokutek | Apr 18, 2012 | MySQL
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...
by Leif.Walsh | Apr 13, 2012 | MySQL
This week, I was at Percona Live, and it was a lot of fun! I even got to give a talk on write optimization techniques (not just ours), that I’m told will be online soon. But if you missed that, or even if you didn’t, I’m still in the valley until...
