by Tim.Callaghan | Sep 30, 2014 | MySQL
Today we released TokuMX v2.0, the latest version of Tokutek’s high-performance MongoDB distribution. Highlights of this new release are as follows: Fast updates that can boost the speed of updates to unindexed fields by more than 10x. Ark elections making...
by Tim.Callaghan | Sep 29, 2014 | MySQL
Coming in TokuMX v2.0 is a feature we’re calling “Fast Updates”. Fast updates permit certain update operations to bypass the read-modify-write behavior that most databases require (including MongoDB and the current release of TokuMX). In this blog I’ll cover how Fast...
by Tim.Callaghan | Sep 22, 2014 | MySQL
TokuMX 2.0 is coming at the end of this month, and it’s going to be the most innovative release of TokuMX since our first release last June. Version 2.0 represents the realization of many of our engineering aspirations from when we started the TokuMX project, and...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Aug 7, 2014 | MySQL
This is the fourth post in a series of posts that explains Ark, a consensus algorithm we’ve developed for TokuMX and MongoDB to fix known issues in elections and failover. The tech report we released describes the algorithm in full detail. These posts are a layman’s...
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 Zardosht.Kasheff | Jul 30, 2014 | MySQL
This is the third post in a series of posts that explains Ark, a consensus algorithm we’ve developed for TokuMX and MongoDB to fix known issues in elections and failover. The tech report we released last week describes the algorithm in full detail. These posts are a...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Jul 25, 2014 | MySQL
This is the second post in a series of posts that explains Ark, a consensus algorithm we’ve developed for TokuMX and MongoDB to fix known issues in elections and failover. The tech report we released last week describes the algorithm in full detail. These posts are a...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Jul 22, 2014 | MySQL
Last week, we introduced Ark, a consensus algorithm similar to Raft and Paxos we’ve developed for TokuMX and MongoDB. The purpose of Ark is to fix known issues in elections and failover. While the tech report detailing Ark explains everything formally, over the next...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Jul 18, 2014 | MySQL
Most of the time, our blog posts explain what’s great about the MongoDB improvements we’ve already shipped in TokuMX. Sometimes, though, it’s fun to talk about what’s coming soon, especially when user feedback would really help get the feature right. In my next...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Jun 27, 2014 | MySQL
In TokuMX 1.5, we introduced partitioned collections for non-sharded clusters. That is, one can have a partitioned collection in a replica set, but one cannot shard a partitioned collection. In this post, I explain why. As I mentioned here, partitioned collections are...
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 Zardosht.Kasheff | Jun 20, 2014 | MySQL
Take the following scenario. You have a time-series data application for which you would like to store a rolling period of data. For example, you may want to maintain the last six months of traffic logs for a website, in order to analyze activity of different periods...
by Tim.Callaghan | Jun 18, 2014 | MySQL
Tokutek is pleased to announce today’s release of TokuMX v1.5. Also worth noting is that TokuMX is exactly 1 year old tomorrow. But enough about birthdays, and more about features! This release brings with it the ability to partition a collection in unsharded...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Jun 13, 2014 | MySQL
In my last post, I gave a technical explanation of the performance characteristics of partitioned collections in TokuMX 1.5 (which is right around the corner) and partitioned tables in relational databases. Given those performance characteristics, in this post, I will...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Jun 10, 2014 | MySQL
In TokuMX 1.5 that is right around the corner, the big feature will be partitioned collections. This feature is similar to partitioned tables in Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, and Postgres. A question many have is “why should I use partitioned tables?” In short, it’s...
by Dave Rosenlund | Jun 5, 2014 | MySQL
MongoDB replication has a lot of great features including crash safety, automatic failover and parallel slave replication. Although MongoDB’s replication is impressive in many ways, TokuMX™ replication internals are purposely designed differently. Register Now!...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Jun 5, 2014 | MySQL
Over several posts, I’ve explained the differences between TokuMX replication and MongoDB replication, and why they are completely incompatible. In this (belated) post, I explain one last difference: the oplog format for operations. Specifically, TokuMX and MongoDB...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Jun 4, 2014 | MySQL
In my last post, I described a new feature in TokuMX 1.5—partitioned collections—that’s aimed at making it easier and faster to work with time series data. Feedback from that post made me realize that some users may not immediately understand the...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | May 29, 2014 | MySQL
