Being schemaless is one of the key features of MongoDB. On the bright side this allows developers to easily modify the schema of their collections without waiting for the database to be ready to accept a new schema. However schemaless is not free and one of the drawbacks is write amplification. Let’s focus on that […]
Read MoreMongoDB includes several powerful features like high availability, read scaling, and horizontal scalability in an easy-to-use, schema-free database platform. But, what if you could retain those properties, improve performance, and ensure scalability without specialized tuning just by replacing the storage stack? SPEAKER: Jon Tobin, Lead Sales Engineer at Tokutek DATE: Thursday, October 9th TIME: 1pm ET Register Now! […]
Read MoreGetting ready for tomorrow’s MongoDB Boston conference (come say hi if you see us!), I’m spending some time thinking about a post last week by Bryce Nyeggen: The Genius and Folly of MongoDB. It hits home in a lot of ways for me and the whole TokuMX team, because it mimics exactly the impetus we […]
Read MoreA common MongoDB tip is to create short field names to save storage space. Because MongoDB does not compress its data on disk and stores field names in each document, using longer field names leads to bigger documents which leads to more storage space usage. The downside here is developers find short field names unintuitive […]
Read MoreIn my last post, I showed what a Fractal Tree® index is at a high level. Once again, the Fractal Tree index is the data structure inside TokuMX and TokuDB, our MongoDB and MySQL products. One of its strengths is the ability to get high levels of compression on the stored data. In this post, […]
Read MoreTokutek is known for its full-featured fast-indexing technology. MongoDB is known for its great document-based data model and ease of use. TokuMX, version 1.0, combines the best of both worlds. So what, exactly, is TokuMX? The simplest (but incomplete) answer is that TokuMX is MongoDB with all its storage code replaced by Tokutek’s Fractal Tree […]
Read MoreAs we continue to test our Fractal Tree Indexing with MongoDB, I’ve been updating my benchmark infrastructure so I can compare performance, correctness, and resource utilization. Sysbench has long been a standard for testing MySQL performance, so I created a version that is compatible with MongoDB. You can grab my current version of Sysbench for […]
Read MoreUniversity of Montreal Tracks Genomic Data With Tokutek’s TokuDB. Faster insertion rates, improved scalability and agility support lab’s fast growing research database as it grows from 100s of GBs to 1 TB and beyond. Issue addressed: MySQL database used for genomic research must be able to quickly ingest huge amounts of incoming data – hundreds […]
Read MoreWell, 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 Analytics to see what content for blogs was most […]
Read MoreTokuDB® 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 v6.5 delivers all of these features and more, not just for HDDs, but also for flash memory. Originally Aired: October 10th AVAILABLE ON DEMAND TokuDB v6.5: Stores […]
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