by Jon Tobin | Jan 22, 2015 | MySQL
Welcome to blog #2 in a series about the benefits of the Fractal Tree. In this post, I’ll be explaining Big Data, why it poses such a problem and how Tokutek can help. Given the fact that I am a lifelong fan of both Hip-hop and Big Data, the title was a no-brainer...
by Dave Rosenlund | Jan 22, 2015 | MySQL
Receive 20 FREE hours of MongoDB® consulting services if TokuMX does not improve your MongoDB application performance by at least 2x and/or reduce the size of your MongoDB database by 50% or more. Like A Finely Tuned Rally Car Like a finely tuned rally car, your big...
by Leif.Walsh | Jan 19, 2015 | MySQL
UPDATE: Since the publication of this blog post, Tokutek subsequently published preliminary performance benchmark results for TokuMXse. In addition, we have recently released the fourth release candidate of TokuMXse for testing. Also, since this post was written,...
by Jon Tobin | Jan 15, 2015 | MySQL
In my recent travels, I’ve been speaking with database users at various meetups and trade shows worldwide. Very often, I got questions centering around the best use cases for our products, be it TokuDB, our MySQL storage engine, or, TokuMX, our distribution of...
by Tim.Callaghan | Jan 12, 2015 | MySQL
UPDATE: Since the publication of this blog post, the first release candidate of TokuMXse was made available for testing. Learn more about v1.0.0.RC.0. In addition, MongoDB has decided to call the release formerly known as v2.8, v3.0. We’ve been working on...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jan 8, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software, Webinars
Whether you’re looking at the overall MySQL ecosystem or the all-data management landscape, the choice of technologies has never been larger than it is in 2015. Having so many options is great but it also can be very hard to make a selection. I’m going to...
by Dave Rosenlund | Dec 16, 2014 | MySQL
UPDATE: Since the publication of this blog post, Tokutek subsequently published preliminary benchmark results for this new TokuMX sibling, now called TokuMXse. In addition, there have been a number of release candidates. Finally, MongoDB ultimately decided to call...
by Dave Rosenlund | Dec 10, 2014 | MySQL
Want to tweet out a personalized holiday video to your friends? Heckenlights is a Christmas lights installation playing Christmas songs that lets viewers customize and share it. Heckenlights was created by software developer Mark Paluch (@mp911de) who thought it was...
by Dave Rosenlund | Oct 3, 2014 | MySQL
MongoDB 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...
by Tim.Callaghan | Sep 30, 2014 | MySQL
Today we released TokuMX v2.0, the latest version of Tokutek’s high-performance MongoDB distribution. Highlights of this new release are as follows: Fast updates that can boost the speed of updates to unindexed fields by more than 10x. Ark elections making...
by Tim.Callaghan | Sep 29, 2014 | MySQL
Coming in TokuMX v2.0 is a feature we’re calling “Fast Updates”. Fast updates permit certain update operations to bypass the read-modify-write behavior that most databases require (including MongoDB and the current release of TokuMX). In this blog I’ll cover how Fast...
by Tim.Callaghan | Sep 22, 2014 | MySQL
TokuMX 2.0 is coming at the end of this month, and it’s going to be the most innovative release of TokuMX since our first release last June. Version 2.0 represents the realization of many of our engineering aspirations from when we started the TokuMX project, and...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Aug 7, 2014 | MySQL
This is the fourth post in a series of posts that explains Ark, a consensus algorithm we’ve developed for TokuMX and MongoDB to fix known issues in elections and failover. The tech report we released describes the algorithm in full detail. These posts are a layman’s...
by Dave Rosenlund | Aug 1, 2014 | MySQL
Tokutek is pleased to announce the formation of two new TokuMX Bay Area Meetup Groups, as well as each group’s inaugural meet up event. These groups are for anyone who’s interested in delivering high-performance big data applications built with the...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Jul 30, 2014 | MySQL
This is the third post in a series of posts that explains Ark, a consensus algorithm we’ve developed for TokuMX and MongoDB to fix known issues in elections and failover. The tech report we released last week describes the algorithm in full detail. These posts are a...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Jul 25, 2014 | MySQL
This is the second post in a series of posts that explains Ark, a consensus algorithm we’ve developed for TokuMX and MongoDB to fix known issues in elections and failover. The tech report we released last week describes the algorithm in full detail. These posts are a...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Jul 22, 2014 | MySQL
Last week, we introduced Ark, a consensus algorithm similar to Raft and Paxos we’ve developed for TokuMX and MongoDB. The purpose of Ark is to fix known issues in elections and failover. While the tech report detailing Ark explains everything formally, over the next...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Jul 18, 2014 | MySQL
Most of the time, our blog posts explain what’s great about the MongoDB improvements we’ve already shipped in TokuMX. Sometimes, though, it’s fun to talk about what’s coming soon, especially when user feedback would really help get the feature right. In my next...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Jun 27, 2014 | MySQL
In TokuMX 1.5, we introduced partitioned collections for non-sharded clusters. That is, one can have a partitioned collection in a replica set, but one cannot shard a partitioned collection. In this post, I explain why. As I mentioned here, partitioned collections are...
by Dave Rosenlund | Jun 25, 2014 | MySQL
Today, at MongoDB World 2014 in New York City, we announced the winners of our inaugural TokuMX Compression & Performance Innovation Award. We selected two winners from amongst the nominees – Brightcove and Crowdtap. The announcement was made at the TokuMX...
