by Tokutek | Mar 11, 2013 | MySQL
During the second half of our CUBE discussion with Wikibon analyst Jeff Kelly at this year’s Strata Conference in Santa Clara, we talked about the tipping point for Big Data. Strata veterans could see at a glance that this year’s conference was markedly different. No...
by Tokutek | Mar 7, 2013 | MySQL
We had the opportunity to do a CUBE interview with Wikibon analyst Jeff Kelly at last week’s Strata Conference in Santa Clara. In the first part of our conversation, we discuss how our success in integrating Tokutek’s Fractal Tree® technology into MySQL has led us to...
by Leif.Walsh | Feb 5, 2013 | MySQL
In Part 1, we showed performance results of some of the work that’s gone in to TokuDB v6.6. In this post, we’ll take a closer look at how this happened, on the engineering side, and how to think about the performance characteristics in the new version....
by Leif.Walsh | Jan 28, 2013 | MySQL
With TokuDB v6.6 out now, I’m excited to present one of my favorite enhancements: concurrency within a single index. Previously, while there could be many SQL transactions in-flight at any given moment, operations inside a single index were fairly serialized. We’ve...
by Tokutek | Jan 22, 2013 | MySQL
University 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...
by Tokutek | Jan 15, 2013 | MySQL
We wanted to take a moment to say thanks to all of our customers and to the wider MySQL and MariaDB community. Today we announced a doubling of our customer base for the year ending December 31, 2012. Significant milestones over the last year included new technology...
by Martin.FarachColton | Jan 8, 2013 | MySQL
We are excited to announce TokuDB® v6.6, the latest version of Tokutek’s flagship storage engine for MySQL and MariaDB. This version offers three types of performance improvements: in-memory, multi-client and fast updates. Although TokuDB is optimized for large...
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 Leif.Walsh | Dec 19, 2012 | MySQL
Every time I visit my family for the holidays, as the date approaches, I find myself filled with dread. It’s nothing sinister, my family’s great, and the season is nice. The reason is simple: I hate packing. In fact, I hate both kinds of packing: trip packing, and bit...
by Tokutek | Dec 13, 2012 | MySQL
Tired of the same old holiday tunes year after year? Join us as we Rock around the Fractal Tree here at Tokutek. We’ve fiddled with the chorus; won’t you join us? Rockin’ around the Fractal Tree (sung to the tune of Rockin’ around the Christmas Tree)...
by Martin.FarachColton | Dec 6, 2012 | MySQL
We get a lot of questions about how Fractal Tree indexes work. It’s a write-optimized index with fast queries, but which write-optimized indexing structure is it? In this ~15 minute video (which uses these slides), I give a quick overview of how they work and...
by Tokutek | Nov 27, 2012 | MySQL
In this webinar we will show step by step how to install, configure, and test TokuDB for a typical performance evaluation. We’ll also be flagging potential pitfalls that can ruin the eval results. It will describe the differences between installing from scratch...
by Tim.Callaghan | Nov 13, 2012 | MySQL
In my three previous MongoDB blogs I wrote about our implementation of Fractal Tree(R) indexes on MongoDB, showing a 10x insertion performance increase, a 268x query performance increase, and a comparison of covered indexes and clustered indexes. These benchmarks show...
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 22, 2012 | MySQL
At tomorrow’s NoVA MySQL October Meetup, I will give a talk: “Fractal Tree Indexes – Theoretical Overview and Customer Use Cases.” The meetup is 7 pm Tuesday, October 23, 2012, and will be held at AOL Campus HQ in Dulles VA. Most databases employ B-trees...
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 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 9, 2012 | MySQL
Recently, our CTO, Martín Farach-Colton had a chance to talk about scaling MySQL and MariaDB with Roberto Zicari of ODBMS. In the article, Martin states “While I believe that one size fits most, claims that RDBMS can no longer keep up with modern workloads come...
