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 Bill Karwin | Jan 17, 2013 | Insight for Developers, MySQL, Percona Events
I’ll be presenting a webinar next Wednesday, January 23 at 10 a.m. (Pacific Time), about issues application developers should think about for scaling out read-query traffic using multiple MySQL instances in a replication pair. Specifically, about the care we...
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 Tokutek | Jan 11, 2013 | MySQL
TokuDB® is a proven solution that scales MySQL® and MariaDB® from GBs to TBs with unmatched insert and query speed, compression, replication performance and online schema flexibility. Tokutek’s recently launched TokuDB v6.6 delivers all of these features and...
by Aurimas Mikalauskas | Jan 9, 2013 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
While we do have many blog posts on replication on our blog, such as on replication being single-threaded, on semi-synchronous replication or on estimating replication capacity, I don’t think we have one that covers the very basics of how MySQL replication...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Jan 8, 2013 | MySQL
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.28-29.3 on January 8th, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.28, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.28-29.3 is now the...
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 | Jan 3, 2013 | MySQL
What a flashback this week. Staring at a text terminal trying to establish a connection with a remote server, I began to fret whether I would get my homework assignment done on time. My mind raced back to college nights years ago in the Fishbowl, hunched over an...
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 Aurimas Mikalauskas | Dec 20, 2012 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
We are doing a migration from Amazon RDS to EC2 with a customer. This, unfortunately, involves some downtime – if you are an RDS user, you probably know you can’t replicate an RDS instance to an external server (or even EC2). While it is annoying, this...
by Fernando Ipar | Dec 19, 2012 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
First, a thank you to everyone who attended the webinar Today, I appreciate your time and nice comments. As promised, here are answers to questions that couldn’t be answered during the talk: Q: How do you install the tools? The manual has full details,...
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 Fernando Ipar | Dec 12, 2012 | MySQL, Percona Events
On December 19th at 1 PM Eastern / 10 AM Pacific, I will be giving a webinar entitled “10 Percona Toolkit Tools Every MySQL DBA Should Know About”. As a Consultant, I make heavy use of Percona Toolkit tools while solving customers’ problems, and I...
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 Bill Karwin | Nov 22, 2012 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Events
One of my favorite tools in the Percona Toolkit is pt-query-digest. This tool is indispensable for identifying your top SQL queries, and analyzing which queries are accounting for your database load. But the report you get from pt-query-digest is only as good as the...
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 Brian Fraser | Nov 15, 2012 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
The Percona Toolkit team is happy to announce the release of Percona Toolkit version 2.1.6. This is the sixth stable release in the 2.1 series, and primarily a bug-fix release; We suggest that users upgrade to the latest version of the tools. The complete list of...
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...
