by Peter Zaitsev | Jun 1, 2016 | MongoDB
This blog post discusses Percona’s future plans for TokuMX, PerconaFT, and MongoRocks for MongoDB 3.2 and later releases. At Percona, we focus on providing the best solution for our customers, rather than falling into “big ego,” “not invented here” or “sunk cost...
by Miguel Angel Nieto | Aug 21, 2015 | MongoDB
Finding and removing unused indexes is a pretty common technique to improve overall performance of relational databases. Less indexes means faster insert and updates but also less disk space used. The usual way to do it is to log all queries’ execution plans and...
by Tom Diederich | Aug 13, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
Storage. Everyone needs it. Whether your data is in MySQL, a NoSQL, or somewhere in the cloud, with ever-growing data volumes – along with the need for SSDs to cut latency and replication to provide insurance – an organization’s storage footprint is an...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Aug 3, 2015 | MongoDB, MySQL
In my recent benchmarks for MongoDB, we can see that the two engines WiredTiger and TokuMX struggle from periodical drops in throughput, which is clearly related to a checkpoint interval – and therefore I correspond it to a checkpoint activity. The funny thing...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Jul 24, 2015 | Benchmarks, MySQL, Percona Software
Previously I tested Tokutek’s Fractal Trees (TokuMX & TokuMXse) as MongoDB storage engines – today let’s look into the MySQL area. I am going to use modified LinkBench in a heavy IO-load. I compared InnoDB without compression, InnoDB with 8k...
by Tom Diederich | Jul 21, 2015 | MongoDB, MySQL
Today Percona announced the immediate availability of 24/7, enterprise-class support for MongoDB and TokuMX. The new support service helps organizations achieve maximum application performance without database bloat. Customers have round-the-clock access (365 days a...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Jul 1, 2015 | MongoDB, MySQL
Quite often, especially for benchmarks, I am trying to limit available memory for a database server (usually for MySQL, but recently for MongoDB also). This is usually needed to test database performance in scenarios with different memory limits. I have physical...
by Stephane Combaudon | May 26, 2015 | MongoDB
Storing time-series data is a frequent pattern for databases – be it for logs or for any kind of monitoring. Such data has the following properties: records are inserted but also never updated, the insertion rate can be high and records are likely to expire...
by David Bennett | May 22, 2015 | Benchmarks, MongoDB
“There’s no benchmark for how life’s “supposed” to happen. There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, it’s up to you how you respond to it.” ― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies At one time or...
by Tom Diederich | May 6, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events
Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev and Big Data guru Alexander Rubin will be speaking at Meetups along the East Coast next week with stops in Boston (May 11), New York City (May 12), Philadelphia (May 13) and Baltimore (May 14). Dubbed the “MySQL Whistle-Stop Tour” since...
by Stephane Combaudon | May 5, 2015 | MySQL
Being schemaless is one of the key features of MongoDB. On the bright side this allows developers to easily modify the schema of their collections without waiting for the database to be ready to accept a new schema. However schemaless is not free and one of the...
by Vadim Tkachenko | May 1, 2015 | Benchmarks, MySQL
An idea for a benchmark based on the “arrival request” rate that I wrote about in a post headlined “Introducing new type of benchmark” back in 2012 was implemented in Sysbench. However, Sysbench provides only a simple workload, so to be able to...
by Peter Zaitsev | Apr 14, 2015 | MySQL
It is my pleasure to announce that Percona has acquired Tokutek and will take over development and support for TokuDB® and TokuMX™ as well as the revolutionary Fractal Tree® indexing technology that enables those products to deliver improved performance, reliability...
by Jon Tobin | Feb 25, 2015 | MySQL
In Mo’ Data, Mo’ Problems, we explored the paradox that “Big Data” projects pose to organizations and how Tokutek is taking an innovative approach to solving those problems. In this post, we’re going to talk about another hot topic in IT, “The Cloud,” and how...
by Dave Rosenlund | Feb 4, 2015 | MySQL
On February 3rd MongoDB, Inc. formally announced MongoDB v3.0 (the product release formerly known as v2.8). It includes a number of important enhancements, some of them of particular interest to users of the Tokutek distribution of MongoDB, TokuMX, or anyone thinking...
by Dave Rosenlund | Jan 22, 2015 | MySQL
Receive 20 FREE hours of MongoDB® consulting services if TokuMX does not improve your MongoDB application performance by at least 2x and/or reduce the size of your MongoDB database by 50% or more. Like A Finely Tuned Rally Car Like a finely tuned rally car, your big...
by Leif.Walsh | Jan 19, 2015 | MySQL
UPDATE: Since the publication of this blog post, Tokutek subsequently published preliminary performance benchmark results for TokuMXse. In addition, we have recently released the fourth release candidate of TokuMXse for testing. Also, since this post was written,...
by Dave Rosenlund | Dec 16, 2014 | MySQL
UPDATE: Since the publication of this blog post, Tokutek subsequently published preliminary benchmark results for this new TokuMX sibling, now called TokuMXse. In addition, there have been a number of release candidates. Finally, MongoDB ultimately decided to call...
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...
