by Leif.Walsh | Apr 26, 2013 | MySQL
Since we had the pleasure to announce that TokuDB is open source on Monday, it’s been a thrilling ride. With several members of the team out west all week, back on the east coast we’ve been seeing quite a lot of questions, suggestions, and exciting results. Here are...
by Tokutek | Apr 25, 2013 | MySQL
Yesterday we posted the photos and lyrics. Now we’ve got the YouTube video (click here)! And for those who want some behind the scenes photos, see here and here. (courtesy of @seattlegaucho).
by Tokutek | Apr 25, 2013 | MySQL
We wanted to thank everyone for naming Tokutek the Corporate Contributor of the Year 2013 for ongoing contribution to the MySQL community. The MySQL Community Awards are given annually to the people and companies that support the MySQL ecosystem. The MySQL Community...
by Tokutek | Apr 25, 2013 | MySQL
Thanks to all of those who came to the lightning talks this evening. A special thanks to Erin Grace O’Malley O’Neill for the great performance. Thanks also to @NuoDB and @geobdz (whose photo is below) for tweets. Stay tuned for the video as well…. MySQL...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Apr 24, 2013 | MySQL
Since we announced that TokuDB is now open source, there has been a lot of positive feedback (thanks!) and also some questions about the details. I want to take this opportunity to give a quick high level guide to describe what our repositories on Github are. Here are...
by Tokutek | Apr 23, 2013 | MySQL
I enjoyed Stewart Smith’s MySQL storage engine blog last week. In it he noted “I cannot emphasize how much more interesting TokuDB would be if it were open source.” Well, with our open source announcement yesterday, hopefully we are getting...
by Martin.FarachColton | Apr 22, 2013 | MySQL
Every few months, I get the fun job of announcing what’s new in TokuDB®, but this time is special. With Version 7, TokuDB for MySQL and MariaDB is going open source. The free Community Edition is fully functional and fully performant. It has all the compression...
by Tokutek | Apr 9, 2013 | MySQL
If T.S. Eliot were a MySQL DBA, I think he would have been more upbeat about April. We are gearing up for an incredible second half of April. We will be presenting three separate sessions at the Percona Live: MySQL Conference and Expo 2013, April 22-25, in Santa...
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 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)...
