by Tim.Callaghan | Mar 28, 2013 | MySQL
Last month my colleague Rich Prohaska covered the technical details of our “Fast Update” feature which we added to TokuDB in version 6.6. The message based architecture of Fractal Tree Indexes allows us to defer certain operations while still maintaining...
by Tim.Callaghan | Mar 20, 2013 | MySQL
We recently resumed our discussion around bringing Fractal Tree indexes to MongoDB. This effort includes Tokutek’s interview with Jeff Kelly at Strata as well as my two recent tech blogs which describe the compression achieved on a generic MongoDB data set and...
by Tokutek | Mar 11, 2013 | MySQL
During the second half of our CUBE discussion with Wikibon analyst Jeff Kelly at this year’s Strata Conference in Santa Clara, we talked about the tipping point for Big Data. Strata veterans could see at a glance that this year’s conference was markedly different. No...
by Tokutek | Mar 7, 2013 | MySQL
We had the opportunity to do a CUBE interview with Wikibon analyst Jeff Kelly at last week’s Strata Conference in Santa Clara. In the first part of our conversation, we discuss how our success in integrating Tokutek’s Fractal Tree® technology into MySQL has led us to...
by Tim.Callaghan | Feb 27, 2013 | MySQL
One doesn’t have to look far to see that there is strong interest in MongoDB compression. MongoDB has an open ticket from 2009 titled “Option to Store Data Compressed” with Fix Version/s planned but not scheduled. The ticket has a lot of comments, mostly from...
by Martin.FarachColton | Feb 20, 2013 | MySQL
I’ve said it before, and, as is the nature of these things, I’ll almost certainly say it again: your database performance is only as good as your indexes. That’s the grand thesis, so what does that mean? In any DB system — SQL, NoSQL, NewSQL,...
by Rich.Prohaska | Feb 12, 2013 | MySQL
With TokuDB v6.6 out now, I’m excited to present one of my favorite enhancements: fast updates with TokuDB. Update intensive applications can have their throughput limited by the random read capacity of the storage system. The cause of the throughput limit is the...
by Leif.Walsh | Feb 5, 2013 | MySQL
In Part 1, we showed performance results of some of the work that’s gone in to TokuDB v6.6. In this post, we’ll take a closer look at how this happened, on the engineering side, and how to think about the performance characteristics in the new version....
by Leif.Walsh | Jan 28, 2013 | MySQL
With TokuDB v6.6 out now, I’m excited to present one of my favorite enhancements: concurrency within a single index. Previously, while there could be many SQL transactions in-flight at any given moment, operations inside a single index were fairly serialized. We’ve...
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 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 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 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 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 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...
