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 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 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...
by Dave Rosenlund | Jun 21, 2014 | MySQL
On Monday, some of the Boston-area Tokutek team will board New York bound trains to join our Union Square colleagues at MongoDB World 2014. We couldn’t be more excited. You would be too. TokuMX, our high-performance distribution of MongoDB, just had its first...
by John.Schulz | May 22, 2014 | MySQL
Former AOL chief database architect, now independent database consultant, John Schulz guest blogs about his experience with basic MongoDB (from MongoDB, Inc.) and TokuMX™. If you’d like to speak with John about your own big data challenges you can contact him via...
by Dave Rosenlund | May 22, 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 Dave Rosenlund | May 20, 2014 | MySQL
If you’re reading this you may be a TokuMX user, or you’re thinking about using TokuMX. If the latter case applies, I bet you’re already using some form MongoDB today. Either way, you’ve probably heard about the MongoDB Innovation Awards announced in...
by Dave Rosenlund | May 16, 2014 | MySQL
Are you attending MongoDB World 2014? If so, I’d like to invite you to race ahead of the morning joggers by attending a breakfast meet-up where you’ll be able to discuss your big data challenges with database gurus: Mark Callaghan of Facebook (and the Small Datum...
by Dave Rosenlund | May 9, 2014 | MySQL
Background: If you did not read my first blog post about why I am sharing my thoughts on the benchmarks published by Mark Callaghan on Small Datum you may want to skim through it now for a little context: “Thoughts on Small Datum – Part 1”...
by Dave Rosenlund | May 1, 2014 | MySQL
The title of this post should really be, “Maybe He Should Try Taking a Walk in Your Shoes.” The he I’m referring to is economist and author, Tim Harford. The you is the people who use NewSQL and NoSQL approaches to mine big data with database platforms...
by Dave Rosenlund | Apr 29, 2014 | MySQL
If you did not read my first blog post about Mark Callaghan’s (@markcallaghan) benchmarks as documented in his blog, Small Datum, you may want to skim through it now for a little context. ——————- On March 11th, Mark, a former Google and now Facebook database guru,...
by Dave Rosenlund | Apr 17, 2014 | MySQL
As you scale, one of the challenges is optimizing your clusters and mitigating operational risk. Proper preparation can result in significant savings and reduced downtime. Register Now! SPEAKER: Jon Tobin, Tokutek and Vinay Joosery, Severalnines DATE: Thursday, April...
by Dave Rosenlund | Apr 16, 2014 | MySQL
OpenStack Summit 2014 is a five-day conference for developers, users, and administrators of OpenStack Cloud Software — a topic near and dear to many Tokutek customers. This year’s event is being held in Atlanta, May 12-16, 2014. Recently, I learned about an...
by Dave Rosenlund | Feb 27, 2014 | MySQL
It may be easy to choose a NoSQL database, but do you know which distribution is best for you? Which will perform better? Which will scale further? Look before you leap. Register Now! SPEAKER: John Schulz DATE: Wednesday, March 5th TIME: 1pm ET AOL, the well-known...
by Leif.Walsh | Feb 25, 2014 | MySQL
We just released version 1.4.0 of TokuMX, our high-performance distribution of MongoDB. There are a lot of improvements in this version (release notes), the most of any release yet. In this series of blog posts, we describe the most interesting changes and how they’ll...
by Leif.Walsh | Feb 21, 2014 | MySQL
We just released version 1.4.0 of TokuMX, our high-performance distribution of MongoDB. There are a lot of improvements in this version (release notes), the most of any release yet. In this series of blog posts, we describe the most interesting changes and how they’ll...
by Leif.Walsh | Feb 20, 2014 | MySQL
We just released version 1.4.0 of TokuMX, our high-performance distribution of MongoDB. There are a lot of improvements in this version (release notes), the most of any release yet. In this series of blog posts, we describe the most interesting changes and how they’ll...
by Leif.Walsh | Feb 19, 2014 | MySQL
We just released version 1.4.0 of TokuMX, our high-performance distribution of MongoDB. There are a lot of improvements in this version (release notes), the most of any release yet. In this series of blog posts, we describe the most interesting changes and how they’ll...
by Leif.Walsh | Feb 18, 2014 | MySQL
We just released version 1.4.0 of TokuMX, our high-performance distribution of MongoDB. There are a lot of improvements in this version (release notes), the most of any release yet. In this series of blog posts, we describe the most interesting changes and how they’ll...
