by Tokutek | Nov 12, 2012 | MySQL
There is obviously much being written these days about Big Data. While the term has many different meanings to many different folks, our MySQL and MariaDB customers tend to find their data to be uncomfortably big when the tables become too large for memory. In this...
by Tokutek | Nov 5, 2012 | MySQL
It certainly has been a tough week on the East Coast. In the Boston area, where I am located, we got grazed by Sandy – power outages, trees down, schools closed, and Halloween delayed. This though, pales in comparison to what our NY office had to endure. One of...
by Tim.Callaghan | Oct 22, 2012 | MySQL
At tomorrow’s NoVA MySQL October Meetup, I will give a talk: “Fractal Tree Indexes – Theoretical Overview and Customer Use Cases.” The meetup is 7 pm Tuesday, October 23, 2012, and will be held at AOL Campus HQ in Dulles VA. Most databases employ B-trees...
by Tokutek | Oct 18, 2012 | MySQL
Next week I’ll be visiting Moscow to talk at Highload++. The conference will take place during Monday 22nd and Tuesday 23rd at the Radisson hotel. I will be giving my personal version of an indexing talk that my colleagues have given in meetups and conferences...
by Michael.Bender | Oct 15, 2012 | MySQL
Bradley and I (Michael) gave the tutorial on Data Structures and Algorithms for Big Databases at the 6th XLDB Conference last month. The tutorial was organized as follows: Module 0: Tutorial overview and introductions. We describe an observed (but not necessary)...
by Tokutek | Oct 11, 2012 | MySQL
The core technology behind Tokutek is based on the academic research by our founders: Michael Bender, Bradley Kuszmaul and Martin Farach-Colton. They are all still in academia, in addition to their work at Tokutek. Back in March, the White House kicked off a new...
by Tokutek | Oct 9, 2012 | MySQL
Recently, our CTO, Martín Farach-Colton had a chance to talk about scaling MySQL and MariaDB with Roberto Zicari of ODBMS. In the article, Martin states “While I believe that one size fits most, claims that RDBMS can no longer keep up with modern workloads come...
by Tokutek | Oct 4, 2012 | MySQL
Recently, our CEO, John Partridge had a chance to talk about novel database technologies for “Big Data” with Peter Cohan of Forbes. According to the article, “Fractal Tree indexing is helping organizations analyze big data more efficiently due to its...
by Tokutek | Oct 4, 2012 | 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 v6.5 delivers all of these features and...
by Tim.Callaghan | Sep 29, 2012 | MySQL
TokuDB v6.5 adds the ability to expand certain column types without downtime. Users can now enlarge char, varchar, varbinary, and integer columns with no interruption to insert/update/delete statements on the altered table. Prior to this feature, enlarging one of...
by kuszmaul | Sep 27, 2012 | MySQL
Since Fractal Tree indexes turn random writes into sequential writes, it’s easy to see why they offer a big advantage for maintaining indexes on rotating disks. It turns out that that Fractal Tree indexing also offers signficant advantages on SSD. Here are three...
by Martin.FarachColton | Sep 25, 2012 | MySQL
We are excited to announce TokuDB® v6.5, the latest version of Tokutek’s flagship storage engine for MySQL and MariaDB. This version offers optimization for Flash as well as more hot schema change operations for improved agility. We’ll be posting more...
by Tokutek | Sep 24, 2012 | MySQL
On Friday our CEO John Partridge was named a “Tech Luminary” in the 17th annual Innovation All Stars award, which is given jointly by Mass High Tech (MHT) and the Boston Business Journal (BBJ). As noted in MHT by the editor, Chris McIntosh, the Luminary...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Sep 18, 2012 | MySQL
At next week’s Strange Loop conference, I will give a talk on “Understanding Indexing”. The session is 10 am Monday, September 24th, and will be held in the Midland States Room.
by kuszmaul | Sep 7, 2012 | MySQL
Next week Michael and I (Bradley) will be travelling to Silicon Valley to present a tutorial on Data Structures and Algorithms for Big Databases at the 6th XLDB Conference. The tutorial, which is 4 hours on Monday afternoon, aims to cover the following topics (but...
by Tim.Callaghan | Aug 30, 2012 | MySQL
Last week I wrote about our 10x insertion performance increase with MongoDB. We’ve continued our experimental integration of Fractal Tree® Indexes into MongoDB, adding support for clustered indexes. A clustered index stores all non-index fields as the “value” portion...
by Tokutek | Aug 22, 2012 | MySQL
Businesses increasingly operate in a 24×7 environment, where complex analytics must be performed on live, continuously incoming “Big Data.” To address this, TokuDB has developed Fractal Tree® technology, a revolutionary new indexing capability that enables...
by Michael.Bender | Aug 7, 2012 | MySQL
A few weeks ago Bradley Kuszmaul and I attended the Dagstuhl Seminar on Database Workload Management. The Dagstuhl computer science research center is (remotely) located in the countryside in Saarland, Germany. The actual building is an 18th Century Manor House, first...
by Tim.Callaghan | Aug 1, 2012 | MySQL
Benchmarking is a tricky thing, especially when it comes to compression. Some data compresses quite well while other data does not compress at all. Storing jpeg images in a BLOB column produces 0% compression, but storing the string “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA” in a...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Jul 23, 2012 | MySQL
Three rules on making indexes around queries to provide good performance Application performance often depends on how fast a query can respond and query performance almost always depends on good indexing. So one of the quickest and least expensive ways to increase...
