by Tokutek | Mar 28, 2012 | MySQL
On Monday, I took a break from planning for the upcoming Percona Live MySQL Conference (where we have a session, lightning talk, booth, and other misc activities planned) to go attend the UK-Massachusetts Innovation Economies Conference at the MIT Media Lab. The event...
by Ovais Tariq | Mar 21, 2012 | Benchmarks, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
This is the second blog post in the series of blog posts leading up to the talk comparing the optimizer enhancements in MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 5.5. This blog post is aimed at the optimizer enhancement Multi Range Read (MRR). Its available in both MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB...
by Tokutek | Mar 19, 2012 | MySQL
Tokutek and Percona are giving away free tickets to the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo (worth $995 each), and you can win them! We’re also giving away copies of High Performance MySQL, 3rd Edition (worth $55 each). This year’s event is the best ever,...
by Tokutek | Mar 13, 2012 | MySQL
Given all the focus and hype on Big Data, I was excited to have the chance at the recent O’Reilly Strata Show to sit down with Jeff Kelly, one of the top rated “Big Data” analysts, to give a MySQL perspective. Below is my interview with Jeff...
by Ovais Tariq | Mar 12, 2012 | Benchmarks, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
I have been working with Peter in preparation for the talk comparing the optimizer enhancements in MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 5.5. We are taking a look at and benchmarking optimizer enhancements one by one. So in the same way this blog post is aimed at a new optimizer...
by Tokutek | Mar 5, 2012 | MySQL
We had the privilege this past week to be invited to be part of the 2012 O’Reilly Strata “Making Data Work” Conference. Some of our photos from the event are here. At the event, we were excited to have Tokutek described in front of the approximately...
by Tokutek | Feb 27, 2012 | MySQL
Ensuring sufficient disk I/O to catch copyright violations at network speed. Evidenzia GmbH & Co. KG Issues addressed: Storage growth, including maxed-out disk I/O utilization Performance issues and business impact due to slow selects Inability to revise data...
by Tokutek | Feb 9, 2012 | MySQL
We are excited to announce that we’ve been named as one of ten finalists selected for the startup showcase at the O’Reilly Strata “Making Data Work” Conference at the end of this month in Santa Clara, California. The startup showcase will be held...
by Tokutek | Feb 6, 2012 | MySQL
While it might not have been New England’s weekend on the Big Gridiron, it was certainly New England’s day for Big Data at the New England Database Summit on Friday at MIT. The summit was well attended, with 350 registrants and keynotes from prominent MySQL users such...
by Tim.Callaghan | Feb 2, 2012 | MySQL
I’ll be speaking on April 11th at 4:30 pm in Room 4 in at the Percona Conference and Expo Talk. The topic will be “Creating a Benchmark Infrastructure That Just Works.” Throughout my career I’ve been involved with maintaining the performance of...
by Tim.Callaghan | Jan 26, 2012 | MySQL
iiBench measures the rate at which a database can insert new rows while maintaining several secondary indexes. We ran this for 1 billion rows with TokuDB and InnoDB starting last week, right after we launched TokuDB v5.2. While TokuDB completed it in 15 hours, InnoDB...
by Martin.FarachColton | Jan 19, 2012 | MySQL
TokuDB® v5.2, the latest version of Tokutek’s flagship storage engine for MySQL and MariaDB, is now available. This version offers performance enhancements over previous releases, especially for multi-client scale up and point queries, and extends the cases...
by Tim.Callaghan | Jan 11, 2012 | MySQL
Thanks again to Sheeri Cabral for having me at the Boston MySQL Meetup on Monday for the talk on “Fractal Tree® Indexes – Theoretical Overview and Customer Use Cases.” The crowd was very interactive, and I appreciated that over 50 people signed up for the...
by Tokutek | Jan 3, 2012 | MySQL
FictionPress Issues addressed: Support complex and efficient indexes at 100+ million rows. Predicable and consistent performance regardless of data size growth. Fast recovery. Ensuring Predictable Performance at Scale The Company: FictionPress operates both...
by Stewart Smith | Dec 22, 2011 | MySQL
Once upon a time, it would have been considered madness to even attempt to create 30,000 tables in InnoDB. That time is now a memory. We have customers with a lot more tables than a mere 30,000. There have historically been no tests for anything near this many tables...
by Tokutek | Dec 20, 2011 | MySQL
It’s almost the end of the year – that means holiday cards, shopping, cooking, parties, and the inevitable year-end top lists (including gems like this one). In the spirit of end of year list making, we fed our 60+ blogs this year through Google...
by Tokutek | Dec 14, 2011 | MySQL
Limelight Networks Issue addressed: Managing metadata at exabyte scale Delivering Agile Storage in the Cloud with Billions of Assets The Company: Founded in 2001, Limelight Networks, Inc (NASDAQ: LLNW) is an Internet platform and services company that integrates the...
by Tim.Callaghan | Dec 5, 2011 | MySQL
At next month’s Boston MySQL Meetup, I will give a talk: “Fractal Tree Indexes – Theoretical Overview and Customer Use Cases.” The meetup is 7 pm Monday, January 9th, 2012, and will be held at MIT Building E51 Room 337e (corner of Ames & Amherst St,...
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...
