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 | Nov 12, 2012 | MySQL
There is obviously much being written these days about Big Data. While the term has many different meanings to many different folks, our MySQL and MariaDB customers tend to find their data to be uncomfortably big when the tables become too large for memory. In this...
by Tim.Callaghan | Oct 30, 2012 | MySQL
This webinar covers the basics of B-trees and Fractal Tree Indexes, the benchmarks we’ve run so far, and the development road map going forward. Date: November 13th Time: 2 PM EST / 11 AM PST REGISTER TODAY Topics will include: What is a Fractal Tree Index? How to...
by Tim.Callaghan | Oct 16, 2012 | MySQL
I’ll be presenting “MongoDB and Fractal Tree Indexes” at MongoDB Boston 2012 on October 24th. My presentation covers the basics of B-trees and Fractal Tree Indexes, the benchmarks we’ve run so far, and the development road map going forward....
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 Tokutek | Oct 4, 2012 | MySQL
Recently, our CEO, John Partridge had a chance to talk about novel database technologies for “Big Data” with Peter Cohan of Forbes. According to the article, “Fractal Tree indexing is helping organizations analyze big data more efficiently due to its...
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 kuszmaul | Sep 7, 2012 | MySQL
Next week Michael and I (Bradley) will be travelling to Silicon Valley to present a tutorial on Data Structures and Algorithms for Big Databases at the 6th XLDB Conference. The tutorial, which is 4 hours on Monday afternoon, aims to cover the following topics (but...
by kuszmaul | Aug 14, 2012 | MySQL
Next week I (Bradley) will be traveling to FROSCON near Bonn, Germany, and then on to VLDB in Istanbul. At FROSCON I’ll be talking about fast data structures for maintaining indexes. The talk will share some content with my upcoming MySQL Connect talk. At VLDB,...
by Michael.Bender | Aug 7, 2012 | MySQL
A few weeks ago Bradley Kuszmaul and I attended the Dagstuhl Seminar on Database Workload Management. The Dagstuhl computer science research center is (remotely) located in the countryside in Saarland, Germany. The actual building is an 18th Century Manor House, first...
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 Michael.Bender | Jul 12, 2012 | MySQL
I attended the NSF Workshop on Research Directions in the Principles of Parallel Computation in Pittsburgh on 6/27/12. The workshop brought together researchers from academia and industry to explore visions for the future of parallel computing. I was one of 17 invited...
by kuszmaul | Jul 9, 2012 | MySQL
Solving the Challenges of Big Databases with MySQL When you’re using MySQL for big data (more than ten times as large as main memory), these challenges often arise: loading data fast; maintaining indexes under insertions deletions, and updates; adding and removing...
by Rich.Prohaska | Jun 28, 2012 | MySQL
Table optimization is a necessary evil; tables sometimes need to be optimized to reclaim space or to improve query performance. Unfortunately, MySQL blocks writes to a table while it is being optimized. Because optimization time is proportional to the table size,...
by Martin.FarachColton | Jun 6, 2012 | MySQL
Executive Summary Fast indexing requires the leaves of a Fractal Tree® Index to be big. But some queries require the leaves to be small in order to get any reasonable performance. Basements nodes are our way to achieve these conflicting goals, and here I’ll...
by Martin.FarachColton | Jun 4, 2012 | MySQL
The signal-to-noise ratio in the NoSQL world has made it hard to figure out what’s going on, or even who has something new. For all the talk of performance in the NoSQL world, much of the most exciting part of what’s new is really not about performance at all. Take...
by Michael.Bender | Jun 1, 2012 | MySQL
Martin Farach-Colton and I ran a Tutorial on Algorithms for Memory Sensitive Computing on May 18th at the 44th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) at NYU. Here is the program for the tutorial. Erik Demaine (MIT) spoke on the History of I/O Models. Throughout...
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 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...
