by Dave Rosenlund | Nov 8, 2013 | MySQL
Attending Percona Live in London next week? Don’t miss the chance to hear Tokutek’s Vice President of Engineering, Tim Callaghan, discuss how to use your MySQL knowledge to become an instant MongoDB Guru and the advantages of using Fractal Tree® indexes in...
by Dave Rosenlund | Oct 16, 2013 | MySQL
Tokutek is proud to be a sponsor of the MongoDB Boston 2013 event in Boston next Friday, October 25. The annual one-day conference is dedicated to MongoDB and is featuring all new advanced sessions this year. A few things to look forward to according to...
by Tim.Callaghan | May 15, 2013 | MySQL
I finally posted a copy of the slides from my Percona Live presentation, “Creating a Benchmarking Infrastructure that Just Works”. The PDF is available via this link. The content comes from my personal experiences over many years benchmarking and testing...
by Tokutek | Nov 19, 2012 | MySQL
One of the great things about the MassTLC unConference is the spontaneity of the ideas. In the morning I ran into an old colleague whose startup was looking at switching databases and struggling with the options. Hence, “Scalable Databases for Startups” seemed like a...
by Tokutek | Nov 5, 2012 | MySQL
It certainly has been a tough week on the East Coast. In the Boston area, where I am located, we got grazed by Sandy – power outages, trees down, schools closed, and Halloween delayed. This though, pales in comparison to what our NY office had to endure. One of...
by Tokutek | Oct 18, 2012 | MySQL
Next week I’ll be visiting Moscow to talk at Highload++. The conference will take place during Monday 22nd and Tuesday 23rd at the Radisson hotel. I will be giving my personal version of an indexing talk that my colleagues have given in meetups and conferences...
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 Michael.Bender | Oct 15, 2012 | MySQL
Bradley and I (Michael) gave the tutorial on Data Structures and Algorithms for Big Databases at the 6th XLDB Conference last month. The tutorial was organized as follows: Module 0: Tutorial overview and introductions. We describe an observed (but not necessary)...
by Tim.Callaghan | Oct 3, 2012 | MySQL
Tokutek sponsored the Percona Live MySQL / New York 2012 Conference which took place this past Monday and Tuesday. I spent much of the time at our booth discussing TokuDB with conference attendees but also managed to attend the following presentations: Understanding...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Sep 18, 2012 | MySQL
At next week’s Strange Loop conference, I will give a talk on “Understanding Indexing”. The session is 10 am Monday, September 24th, and will be held in the Midland States Room.
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 | 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 Tokutek | Jul 5, 2012 | MySQL
… Ya se que estás piantao, piantao, piantao… For my lastest blog, a review of the MySQL, NoSQL and Cloud Conference, I’ll continue to use the tango metaphor. Balada para un loco (ballad for a crazy one) is a Piazzola classic and explains what I think of Santiago...
by Tokutek | Jun 25, 2012 | MySQL
Volver, con la frente marchita, las nieves del tiempo platearon mi sien… Martin’s blog (Mi Buenos Aires Querido) was named after a tango, so I decided to follow his lead. The 4 lines of the refrain make reference to someone returning to Buenos Aires after...
by Martin.FarachColton | Jun 18, 2012 | MySQL
Next week, a couple of us at Tokutek will be heading to Buenos Aires for the MySQL / MariaDB Conference & Expo LA. Gerry Narvaja actually grew up in Buenos Aires. My own family is Argentinian. I spent several years there as a child, and my childhood home in South...
by Leif.Walsh | Jun 11, 2012 | MySQL
Modern file systems are well equipped to deal with large writes. One area that remains challenging however is to efficiently write out “microdata”, such as metadata and small portions of large files, while showing good I/O utilization when the data is read...
by Tim.Callaghan | Jun 5, 2012 | MySQL
I’ll be attending this year’s US based Open Database Camp from June 8-10 in Charlotte, NC. The conference is co-located with SouthEast LinuxFest 2012. It appears that OpenSQL Camp was renamed Open Database Camp since I see many database technologies listed...
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 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...
