by Martin.FarachColton | Jun 19, 2013 | MySQL
Tokutek is known for its full-featured fast-indexing technology. MongoDB is known for its great document-based data model and ease of use. TokuMX, version 1.0, combines the best of both worlds. So what, exactly, is TokuMX? The simplest (but incomplete) answer is that...
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 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 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...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Apr 2, 2013 | MySQL
People claim that MongoDB is not transactional. It actually is, and that’s a good thing. In MongoDB 2.2, individual operations are Atomic. By having per database locks control reads and writes to collections, write operations on collections are Consistent and...
by Tim.Callaghan | Mar 28, 2013 | MySQL
Last month my colleague Rich Prohaska covered the technical details of our “Fast Update” feature which we added to TokuDB in version 6.6. The message based architecture of Fractal Tree Indexes allows us to defer certain operations while still maintaining...
by Tim.Callaghan | Mar 20, 2013 | MySQL
We recently resumed our discussion around bringing Fractal Tree indexes to MongoDB. This effort includes Tokutek’s interview with Jeff Kelly at Strata as well as my two recent tech blogs which describe the compression achieved on a generic MongoDB data set and...
by Tim.Callaghan | Mar 14, 2013 | MySQL
As we continue to test our Fractal Tree Indexing with MongoDB, I’ve been updating my benchmark infrastructure so I can compare performance, correctness, and resource utilization. Sysbench has long been a standard for testing MySQL performance, so I created a version...
by Tokutek | Mar 11, 2013 | MySQL
During the second half of our CUBE discussion with Wikibon analyst Jeff Kelly at this year’s Strata Conference in Santa Clara, we talked about the tipping point for Big Data. Strata veterans could see at a glance that this year’s conference was markedly different. No...
by Tokutek | Mar 7, 2013 | MySQL
We had the opportunity to do a CUBE interview with Wikibon analyst Jeff Kelly at last week’s Strata Conference in Santa Clara. In the first part of our conversation, we discuss how our success in integrating Tokutek’s Fractal Tree® technology into MySQL has led us to...
