by Zardosht.Kasheff | Aug 2, 2013 | MySQL
On Wednesday night, the Boston MongoDB User group was kind enough to have me speak about TokuMX Internals. I spoke about Fractal Tree® indexes and the technical reasons behind the benefits they provide to MongoDB applications. Although the talk mostly references...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Jul 22, 2013 | MySQL
A lot is said about the differences in the data between MySQL and MongoDB. Things such as “MongoDB is document based”, “MySQL is relational”, “InnoDB has a clustering key”, etc.. Some may wonder how TokuDB, our MySQL storage engine, and TokuMX, our MongoDB product,...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Jul 15, 2013 | MySQL
Before creating a unique index in TokuMX or TokuDB, ask yourself, “does my application really depend on the database enforcing uniqueness of this key?” If the answer is ANYTHING other than yes, do not declare the index to be unique. Why? Because unique indexes may...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Jul 9, 2013 | MySQL
In my last post, I showed what a Fractal Tree® index is at a high level. Once again, the Fractal Tree index is the data structure inside TokuMX and TokuDB, our MongoDB and MySQL products. One of its strengths is the ability to get high levels of compression on the...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Jul 2, 2013 | MySQL
With our recent release of TokuMX 1.0, we’ve made some bold claims about how fast TokuMX can run MongoDB workloads. In this post, I want to dig into one of the big areas of improvement, write performance and reduced I/O. One of the innovations of TokuMX is that it...
by Martin.FarachColton | Jun 11, 2013 | MySQL
As promised, the Enterprise Edition of TokuDB®, Version 7, is ready. TokuDB Version 7, Enterprise Edition, introduces Hot Backup. You can now back up all your TokuDB tables directly from MySQL or MariaDB, with no down time. In addition, TokuDB Enterprise Edition comes...
by Tim.Callaghan | May 13, 2013 | MySQL
At tomorrow’s Effective MySQL Meetup, I’ll be presenting “Fractal Tree Indexes : Theory and Practice (MySQL and MongoDB).” The meetup is at 6:30pm Tuesday, May 14, 2013, and will be held at Alley NYC in New York City. I’ll give an overview on how Fractal...
by Vadim Tkachenko | May 10, 2013 | MySQL
I was reviewing the Percona Live sponsors list the other day and pondering the potential success stories associated with this product or that one…. and as I was preparing to put more thought on the topic, a PlanetMySQL post caught my eye. It was penned by Mike...
by Vadim Tkachenko | May 7, 2013 | Benchmarks, MySQL
After compiling Percona Server with TokuDB, of course I wanted to compare InnoDB performance vs TokuDB. I have a particular workload I’m interested in testing – it is an insert-intensive workload (which is TokuDB’s strong suit) with some roll-up...
by Tokutek | May 2, 2013 | MySQL
Last week I had to present a tutorial at Percona Live 2013, a presentation at SkySQL’s MySQL & Cloud Database Solution Day and last but not least, a presentation on a Saturday morning at Linuxfest Northwest. It wasn’t easy, but giving the presentations after...
by Tokutek | Apr 29, 2013 | MySQL
With this version, the source code is now freely available under the GPL License v2. For more details, see our blog here. Open source pioneer Mozilla has been using TokuDB to manage its MySQL-driven Datazilla Data cluster, an open-source system for managing and...
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 Zardosht.Kasheff | Apr 3, 2013 | MySQL
Earlier, I talked about the transactional semantics we are introducing to MongoDB. As I hinted at the end of the post, we are actually doing more. We are introducing multi-statement transactions. That’s right, multiple queries, updates, deletes, and inserts will be...
