by Vadim Tkachenko | Jul 20, 2015 | MongoDB, Percona Software
As you may know, Tokutek is now part of Percona and I would like to explain some internals of TokuDB and TokuMX – what performance benefits they bring, along with further optimizations we are working on. However, before going into deep details, I feel it is...
by Peter Zaitsev | Apr 14, 2015 | MySQL
It is my pleasure to announce that Percona has acquired Tokutek and will take over development and support for TokuDB® and TokuMX™ as well as the revolutionary Fractal Tree® indexing technology that enables those products to deliver improved performance, reliability...
by Joe.Laflamme | Feb 11, 2015 | MySQL
Section I: Fractal Tree and Optimization Overview Tokutek’s Fractal Tree® technology provides fast performance by injecting small messages into buffers inside the Fractal Tree index. This allows writes to be batched, thus eliminating I/O that is required in...
by Dave Rosenlund | Feb 4, 2015 | MySQL
On February 3rd MongoDB, Inc. formally announced MongoDB v3.0 (the product release formerly known as v2.8). It includes a number of important enhancements, some of them of particular interest to users of the Tokutek distribution of MongoDB, TokuMX, or anyone thinking...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Jun 5, 2014 | MySQL
Over several posts, I’ve explained the differences between TokuMX replication and MongoDB replication, and why they are completely incompatible. In this (belated) post, I explain one last difference: the oplog format for operations. Specifically, TokuMX and MongoDB...
by Dave Rosenlund | Apr 18, 2014 | MySQL
A little background… When I ventured into sales and marketing (I’m an engineer by education) I learned I would often have to interpret and simply summarize the business value that is sometimes hidden in benchmarks. Simply put, the people who approve the purchase...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Aug 2, 2013 | MySQL
On Wednesday night, the Boston MongoDB User group was kind enough to have me speak about TokuMX Internals. I spoke about Fractal Tree® indexes and the technical reasons behind the benefits they provide to MongoDB applications. Although the talk mostly references...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Jul 15, 2013 | MySQL
Before creating a unique index in TokuMX or TokuDB, ask yourself, “does my application really depend on the database enforcing uniqueness of this key?” If the answer is ANYTHING other than yes, do not declare the index to be unique. Why? Because unique indexes may...
by Leif.Walsh | May 10, 2012 | MySQL
In April, I got to give a talk at Percona Live, about why The Right Read Optimization is Actually Write Optimization. It was my first industry talk, so I was delighted when someone in the audience said “I feel like I just earned a college credit.” Box...
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 Tokutek | Apr 2, 2012 | MySQL
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...
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 20, 2011 | MySQL
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...
by Tim.Callaghan | Dec 5, 2011 | MySQL
At next month’s Boston MySQL Meetup, I will give a talk: “Fractal Tree Indexes – Theoretical Overview and Customer Use Cases.” The meetup is 7 pm Monday, January 9th, 2012, and will be held at MIT Building E51 Room 337e (corner of Ames & Amherst St,...
by Michael.Bender | Aug 11, 2011 | MySQL
Fractal Tree™ indexes are green. They have the potential to be greener still. Here’s why: Remarkably, data centers consume 1-3 percent of all the US electricity. A majority of this power is used to drive servers and storage systems. Significant energy savings...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Jul 15, 2011 | MySQL
Thanks again to Erin O’Neill and Mike Tougeron for having me at the SF MySQL Meetup last month for the talk on “Understanding Indexing.” The crowd was very interactive, and I appreciated that over 100 people signed up for the event and left some very positive comments...
by Michael.Bender | Jul 7, 2011 | MySQL
Last week I gave a talk entitled “Don’t Thrash: How to Cache your Hash.” The talk took place at the Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures (ADS) in a medieval castle turned conference center in Bertinoro, Italy. An earlier version of this work (with the same...
by Martin.FarachColton | May 27, 2011 | MySQL
Yesterday, Percona held Percona Live NYC, which they describe as an “intensive one-day MySQL summit.” They meant it. It was like drinking from a firehose. There was too much for me to give a complete report, so I’d like to highlight two sessions that...
by Martin.FarachColton | Apr 8, 2011 | MySQL
Why do B-trees need “Tricks” to work? Marko Mäkelä recently posted a couple of “tips and tricks” you can use to improve InnoDB performance. Tips and tricks. A general purpose relational database like MySQL shouldn’t need “tips and...
by Michael.Bender | Feb 14, 2011 | MySQL
I gave a talk entitled “How to Index Massive Data Sets Quickly” at the Morrelly Homeland Security Center. The event was hosted at the Long Island Forum for Technology (LIFT) and was jointly supported by NYSTAR and the Stony Brook Sensor CAT. The audience...
