by Terry Erisman | Nov 11, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
The Percona Live MySQL Conference in Silicon Valley (April 13-16, 2015) features a full day of tutorial sessions and three full days with keynote talks and breakout sessions from leading MySQL experts from around the world. Birds of a Feather sessions, two networking...
by Frederic Descamps | Oct 27, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Events
You can already feel the cold of February coming slowly… you can also smell waffles, fries and see a large amount of beards walking around with laptops… you are right, FOSDEM is coming! And as every year, the MySQL Community will also be present! For the...
by Tim.Callaghan | Sep 25, 2014 | MySQL
The biggest innovation in TokuDB v7.5 is Read Free Replication (RFR). I blogged a few days ago posting a benchmark showing how much additional throughput can be achieved on a replication slave, while at the same time lowering the read IO operations to almost zero. The...
by Tim.Callaghan | Sep 23, 2014 | MySQL
New to TokuDB® v7.5 is a feature we’re calling “Read Free Replication” (RFR). RFR allows TokuDB replication slaves to process insert, update, and delete statements with almost no read IO. As a result, the slave can easily keep up with the master (no...
by Tim.Callaghan | Sep 18, 2014 | MySQL
Today we released TokuDB® v7.5, the latest version of Tokutek’s storage engine for MySQL and MariaDB. I’ll be publishing two blogs next week to go into more details about our new “Read Free Replication”, but here are high level descriptions of...
by Rich.Prohaska | Aug 6, 2014 | MySQL
Covering indexes can result in orders of magnitude performance improvements for queries. Bradley’s presentation on covering indexes describes what a covering index is, how it can effect performance, and why it works. However, the definition of a covering index...
by Frederic Descamps | Jul 31, 2014 | MariaDB, MySQL, Percona Software
In the first post in a series on MariaDB features we find interesting, we begin with selectively skipping replication of binlog events. This feature is available on MariaDB 5.5 and 10. By default when using MySQL’s standard replication, all events are logged in...
by Dave Rosenlund | Mar 13, 2014 | MySQL
You may think that you have to buy, install, and get up to speed on a new database if you want to work with large amounts of data, but you can do more than you think with the MySQL you already have. Register Now! SPEAKER: Jon Tobin, Tokutek DATE: Thursday, March 20th...
by Dave Rosenlund | Jan 21, 2014 | MySQL
You love MySQL and MariaDB for its ease of deployment, but what if you could increase performance and save significant time and money when your application starts to scale without having to change your applications? Register Now! SPEAKER: Tim Callaghan, VP of...
by Alexander Rubin | Oct 23, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
The upcoming Percona Live London conference, November 11-12, features quite a number of talks about the latest MySQL features and related technologies. There will be a lots of talks about the new MySQL 5.6 features: Opening keynote highlights MySQL 5.6 new features....
by Rich.Prohaska | Oct 3, 2013 | MySQL
One of our customers reported that ‘create table select from’ statements stall for a period of time equal to the TokuDB lock timeout. This indicated a lock conflict between multiple transactions. In addition, other MySQL clients that were opening...
by Dave Rosenlund | Oct 2, 2013 | MySQL
Save Time & Money – Do It Right The First Time SPEAKER: Gerry Narvaja, Tokutek DATE: Tuesday, October 8th TIME: 1pm ET If you are thinking of using the leading open source database in a project, learn just how easy it is to get started with MySQL, and how...
by Rich.Prohaska | Sep 20, 2013 | MySQL
One of our customers sometimes observed lots of simple insertions taking far longer than expected to complete. Usually these insertions completed in milliseconds, but the insertions sometimes were taking hundreds of seconds. These stalls indicated the existence of a...
by Leif.Walsh | Aug 7, 2013 | MySQL
Recently, we’ve seen a few people ask us about building TokuMX from scratch. While it’s best if you just use the binaries you can get from us (they have all the right optimizations, we’ve tested them, and we can interpret coredumps they generate), we...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Jul 9, 2013 | MySQL
In 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...
by Martin.FarachColton | Jun 11, 2013 | MySQL
As promised, the Enterprise Edition of TokuDB®, Version 7, is ready. TokuDB Version 7, Enterprise Edition, introduces Hot Backup. You can now back up all your TokuDB tables directly from MySQL or MariaDB, with no down time. In addition, TokuDB Enterprise Edition comes...
by Vadim Tkachenko | May 10, 2013 | MySQL
I was reviewing the Percona Live sponsors list the other day and pondering the potential success stories associated with this product or that one…. and as I was preparing to put more thought on the topic, a PlanetMySQL post caught my eye. It was penned by Mike...
by Tokutek | May 2, 2013 | MySQL
Last week I had to present a tutorial at Percona Live 2013, a presentation at SkySQL’s MySQL & Cloud Database Solution Day and last but not least, a presentation on a Saturday morning at Linuxfest Northwest. It wasn’t easy, but giving the presentations after...
by Tokutek | Apr 23, 2013 | MySQL
I enjoyed Stewart Smith’s MySQL storage engine blog last week. In it he noted “I cannot emphasize how much more interesting TokuDB would be if it were open source.” Well, with our open source announcement yesterday, hopefully we are getting...
by Tokutek | Apr 9, 2013 | MySQL
If T.S. Eliot were a MySQL DBA, I think he would have been more upbeat about April. We are gearing up for an incredible second half of April. We will be presenting three separate sessions at the Percona Live: MySQL Conference and Expo 2013, April 22-25, in Santa...
