by Zardosht.Kasheff | Nov 21, 2011 | MySQL
As a storage engine developer, I am excited for MySQL 5.6. Looking at http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/whats-new-in-mysql-5.6.html, there has been plenty of work done to improve the performance of reads in MySQL for all storage engines (provided they take...
by Tokutek | Nov 19, 2011 | MySQL
With the release of TokuDB v5.0 last March, we delivered a powerful and agile storage engine that broke through traditional MySQL scalability and performance barriers. As deployments of TokuDB have grown more varied, one request we have repeatedly heard from...
by Tokutek | Nov 17, 2011 | MySQL
Thanks to everyone who signed up and attended the webinar I gave this week with Tim Callaghan on Scaling MySQL. For those who missed it and are interested, the video and slides are now posted here. A brief description of the webinar is also below. MySQL...
by kuszmaul | Nov 4, 2011 | MySQL
I’ll be talking about How Fractal Trees Work today at MIT in the Computational Research In Boston and Beyond (CRIBB) seminar (http://www-math.mit.edu/crib/2011/nov4.html). The talk is at 12:30 in the Stata Center room 32-141. Pizza available before. This talk...
by Tokutek | Nov 3, 2011 | MySQL
MySQL implementations are often kept relatively small, often just a few hundred GB or less. Anything beyond this quickly leads to painful operational problems such as poor insertion rates, slow queries, hours to days offline for schema changes, prolonged downtime for...
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 Percona | Sep 29, 2011 | MySQL
. Baron Schwartz This guest post is from our friends at Percona. They’re hosting Percona Live London from October 24-25, 2011. Percona Live is a two day summit with 100% technical sessions led by some of the most established speakers in the MySQL field. In the London...
by Leif.Walsh | Sep 22, 2011 | MySQL
Some indexing structures are write optimized in that they are better than B-trees at ingesting data. Other indexing structures are read optimized in that they are better than B-trees at query time. Even within B-trees, there is a tradeoff between write performance and...
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...
by Tokutek | Aug 31, 2011 | MySQL
One of President John Kennedy’s most memorable phrases is “ask not what your country can do for you – ask what can you do for your country”. I got to thinking about this over lunch with a fellow colleague in the big data space. After comparing named customers...
by Michael.Bender | Aug 11, 2011 | MySQL
Fractal Tree™ indexes are green. They have the potential to be greener still. Here’s why: Remarkably, data centers consume 1-3 percent of all the US electricity. A majority of this power is used to drive servers and storage systems. Significant energy savings...
by Tokutek | Jul 29, 2011 | MySQL
When I interviewed at Tokutek, I met a team of distinguished academics and engineers who could calmly and thoughtfully wax eloquent about the finer points of B-tree and Fractal Tree™ indexing, drive I/Os, and database engines. Soon after, I discovered that...
by Tokutek | Jul 25, 2011 | MySQL
We were happy to see a lot of folks from Japan on Twitter this weekend having a discussion about MySQL and Tokutek. While we always endeavor to explain ourselves as simply as possible, hearing what users and peers have to say and ask in their native language is very...
by Tokutek | Jul 18, 2011 | MySQL
Unless you are Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk), or one of his Hollywood buddies, you don’t need to read any further. Allow me to explain… Over the weekend, we launched our new website. This type of announcement used to be interesting in the high-tech world. I heard Kara...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Apr 26, 2011 | MySQL
Kudos to Ronald Bradford for creating a new MySQL meetup group in New York city and giving MySQL related talks. The next one is tonight, titled “MySQL Idiosyncrasies That Bite”. Information on it can be found at...
by John.Partridge | Aug 19, 2010 | MySQL
Tokutek is pleased to announce immediate availability of TokuDB for MySQL, version 4.1.1. It is ideally suited for delivering fast response times for complex / high-volume Web applications that must simultaneously store and query large volumes of rapidly arriving...
