by Martin.FarachColton | Apr 12, 2012 | MySQL
Checkpointing — which involves periodically writing out dirty pages from memory — is central to the design of crash recovery for both TokuDB and InnoDB. A key issue in designing a checkpointing system is how often to checkpoint, and TokuDB takes a very...
by Martin.FarachColton | Apr 11, 2012 | MySQL
A key feature of our new TokuDB v6.0 release, which I have been blogging about this week, is compression. Compression is always on in TokuDB, and the compression we’ve achieved in the past has been quite good. See a previous post on the 18x compression achieved...
by Martin.FarachColton | Apr 10, 2012 | MySQL
Master/slave replication is an important tool that gets used in many ways: distributing read loads among many slaves for performance, using a slave for backups so the master can handle live load, geographically distributed disaster recovery, etc. The Achilles’...
by Martin.FarachColton | Apr 9, 2012 | MySQL
We are excited to announce TokuDB® v6.0, the latest version of Tokutek’s flagship storage engine for MySQL and MariaDB. This version offers feature and performance enhancements over previous releases, support for XA (two-phase transactional commits), better...
by Tokutek | Feb 27, 2012 | MySQL
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...
by Tokutek | Feb 9, 2012 | MySQL
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...
by Tim.Callaghan | Jan 26, 2012 | MySQL
iiBench measures the rate at which a database can insert new rows while maintaining several secondary indexes. We ran this for 1 billion rows with TokuDB and InnoDB starting last week, right after we launched TokuDB v5.2. While TokuDB completed it in 15 hours, InnoDB...
by Martin.FarachColton | Jan 19, 2012 | MySQL
TokuDB® v5.2, the latest version of Tokutek’s flagship storage engine for MySQL and MariaDB, is now available. This version offers performance enhancements over previous releases, especially for multi-client scale up and point queries, and extends the cases...
by Tokutek | Jan 3, 2012 | MySQL
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...
by Tokutek | Dec 14, 2011 | MySQL
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...
by Frederic Descamps | Dec 14, 2011 | MySQL, Percona Events
2012 is near… and so is the next FOSDEM edition ! This year again, MySQL will be represented by its Community. If you want to discuss with friend’s of MySQL it’s the place to be in February ! Like every year, FOSDEM takes place the first week-end of...
by Tokutek | Nov 19, 2011 | MySQL
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...
by Kortney Runyan | Jul 20, 2011 | MySQL, Percona Events
The first Percona Live Conferences in San Francisco and New York were such wonderful successes that we have been inspired to take it across the ocean into the UK. We are therefore proud to announce that our next Percona Live Conference will be held London October...
by Tokutek | Jul 18, 2011 | MySQL
Unless you are Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk), or one of his Hollywood buddies, you don’t need to read any further. Allow me to explain… Over the weekend, we launched our new website. This type of announcement used to be interesting in the high-tech world. I heard Kara...
by Tokutek | Mar 23, 2011 | MySQL
The Big Data Opportunity “What if you could analyze every transaction, capture insights from every customer interaction, and didn’t have to wait for months to get data from the field?”- McKinsey Column, Financial Times Despite this tremendous opportunity, MySQL...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Feb 27, 2011 | Percona Events
Percona is pleased to extend a belated welcome to Alexey Kopytov. He actually joined us back in November, 2010, but we somehow overlooked blogging then about his switch from Oracle to Percona. Alexey has over six years of work deep in MySQL source code as part of...
by Fred Linhoss | Feb 16, 2011 | MySQL, Percona Software
It’s finally here! Percona Server Percona Server 5.5.8-20.0 is now available for download. This is a beta release of Percona’s enhancements to the MySQL 5.5.8 server. Here are some highlights: Performance and scalability improvements throughout the server...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Feb 7, 2011 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
Percona was working closely with Virident on evaluating tachIOn as solution for MySQL, and as result you can find whitepaper “Scaling MySQL Deployments Efficiently Using Virident tachIOn Drives”, available from Virident website. It was done as part of our...
by Morgan Tocker | Jan 12, 2011 | MySQL, Percona Events
Mark Callaghan has graciously accepted to be the closing keynote speaker for Percona Live: San Francisco! Mark is best known for his work behind MySQL @ Facebook, where he and his team maintain one of the largest MySQL installations around. They also contribute back...
by Fred Linhoss | Jan 11, 2011 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona Server version 5.1.54-12.5 is now available for download. It is now the current stable release version. Functionality Added or Changed Percona Server 5.1.54-12.5 is based on MySQL 5.1.54. New Features Added: None Other Changes: Added system variable...
