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 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 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 | Mar 28, 2012 | MySQL
On Monday, I took a break from planning for the upcoming Percona Live MySQL Conference (where we have a session, lightning talk, booth, and other misc activities planned) to go attend the UK-Massachusetts Innovation Economies Conference at the MIT Media Lab. The event...
by Tokutek | Mar 5, 2012 | MySQL
We had the privilege this past week to be invited to be part of the 2012 O’Reilly Strata “Making Data Work” Conference. Some of our photos from the event are here. At the event, we were excited to have Tokutek described in front of the approximately...
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 Tokutek | Feb 6, 2012 | MySQL
While it might not have been New England’s weekend on the Big Gridiron, it was certainly New England’s day for Big Data at the New England Database Summit on Friday at MIT. The summit was well attended, with 350 registrants and keynotes from prominent MySQL users such...
by Tim.Callaghan | Feb 2, 2012 | MySQL
I’ll be speaking on April 11th at 4:30 pm in Room 4 in at the Percona Conference and Expo Talk. The topic will be “Creating a Benchmark Infrastructure That Just Works.” Throughout my career I’ve been involved with maintaining the performance of...
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 Tim.Callaghan | Jan 11, 2012 | MySQL
Thanks again to Sheeri Cabral for having me at the Boston MySQL Meetup on Monday for the talk on “Fractal Tree® Indexes – Theoretical Overview and Customer Use Cases.” The crowd was very interactive, and I appreciated that over 50 people signed up for the...
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 Tokutek | Nov 1, 2011 | MySQL
I had the pleasure of being invited to blog at the MassTLC unConference on Friday. The event was a full day of diverse topics and discussions ranging from the latest in recipe sharing sites, to entrepreneurial CEO war stories, to hot trends in venture...
by Leif.Walsh | Oct 4, 2011 | MySQL
In my last post, we talked about the read/write tradeoff of indexing data structures, and some ways that people augment B-trees in order to get better write performance. We also talked about the significant drawbacks of each method, and I promised to show some more...
by Tokutek | Sep 26, 2011 | MySQL
Review of the O’Reilly Strata Making Data Work Conference (reprinted from my guest blog for the Cloud Council of 7) Monica Rogati of LinkedIn told a story of the early days at the firm, when the reporting system consisted of a single server under someone’s...
by Tokutek | Sep 8, 2011 | MySQL
Intent Media Issue addressed: Ad hoc analytics on clickstream data arriving too fast for InnoDB or NoSQL to handle. TokuDB powers an online advertising application The Company: Headquartered in New York, Intent Media is a fast-growing online advertising startup. The...
