by Tokutek | Jan 3, 2012 | MySQL
FictionPress Issues addressed: Support complex and efficient indexes at 100+ million rows. Predicable and consistent performance regardless of data size growth. Fast recovery. Ensuring Predictable Performance at Scale The Company: FictionPress operates both...
by Tokutek | Dec 20, 2011 | MySQL
It’s almost the end of the year – that means holiday cards, shopping, cooking, parties, and the inevitable year-end top lists (including gems like this one). In the spirit of end of year list making, we fed our 60+ blogs this year through Google...
by Tokutek | Dec 14, 2011 | MySQL
Limelight Networks Issue addressed: Managing metadata at exabyte scale Delivering Agile Storage in the Cloud with Billions of Assets The Company: Founded in 2001, Limelight Networks, Inc (NASDAQ: LLNW) is an Internet platform and services company that integrates the...
by Tim.Callaghan | Dec 5, 2011 | MySQL
At next month’s Boston MySQL Meetup, I will give a talk: “Fractal Tree Indexes – Theoretical Overview and Customer Use Cases.” The meetup is 7 pm Monday, January 9th, 2012, and will be held at MIT Building E51 Room 337e (corner of Ames & Amherst St,...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Nov 21, 2011 | MySQL
As a storage engine developer, I am excited for MySQL 5.6. Looking at http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/whats-new-in-mysql-5.6.html, there has been plenty of work done to improve the performance of reads in MySQL for all storage engines (provided they take...
by Tokutek | Nov 19, 2011 | MySQL
With the release of TokuDB v5.0 last March, we delivered a powerful and agile storage engine that broke through traditional MySQL scalability and performance barriers. As deployments of TokuDB have grown more varied, one request we have repeatedly heard from...
by Tokutek | Nov 17, 2011 | MySQL
Thanks to everyone who signed up and attended the webinar I gave this week with Tim Callaghan on Scaling MySQL. For those who missed it and are interested, the video and slides are now posted here. A brief description of the webinar is also below. MySQL...
by Tim.Callaghan | Nov 11, 2011 | MySQL
This version includes support for “SELECT … FOR UPDATE” as well as displaying table “create time” and “last update time” via “SHOW TABLE STATUS”. The release also addresses a number of other bugs and fixes such as “point...
by kuszmaul | Nov 4, 2011 | MySQL
I’ll be talking about How Fractal Trees Work today at MIT in the Computational Research In Boston and Beyond (CRIBB) seminar (http://www-math.mit.edu/crib/2011/nov4.html). The talk is at 12:30 in the Stata Center room 32-141. Pizza available before. This talk...
by Tokutek | Nov 3, 2011 | MySQL
MySQL implementations are often kept relatively small, often just a few hundred GB or less. Anything beyond this quickly leads to painful operational problems such as poor insertion rates, slow queries, hours to days offline for schema changes, prolonged downtime for...
by Tim.Callaghan | Oct 20, 2011 | MySQL
I’ve been benchmarking and testing TokuDB for a few months now. One goal of benchmarking is to understand what is limiting the performance of a particular configuration. I frequently use “show engine [innodb/tokudb] status;” from within the MySQL...
by Tokutek | Oct 14, 2011 | MySQL
Review of Thursday’s Cloud Events in Boston Everyone is well aware by now of the EC2 outage that Amazon had back in April and it would have surprised no one if that high profile had put a damper on cloud adoption. But judging what we heard yesterday at Boston’s two...
by Leif.Walsh | Oct 4, 2011 | MySQL
In my last post, we talked about the read/write tradeoff of indexing data structures, and some ways that people augment B-trees in order to get better write performance. We also talked about the significant drawbacks of each method, and I promised to show some more...
by Baron Schwartz | Sep 30, 2011 | MySQL, Percona Events
It’s Friday again (already?) and as usual, we have a free ticket for Percona Live London. This time Tokutek is doing the honors of running the contest and selecting the winner. Instructions for entering the contest are on their blog, at the top of my recent...
by Percona | Sep 29, 2011 | MySQL
. Baron Schwartz This guest post is from our friends at Percona. They’re hosting Percona Live London from October 24-25, 2011. Percona Live is a two day summit with 100% technical sessions led by some of the most established speakers in the MySQL field. In the London...
by Tokutek | Sep 26, 2011 | MySQL
Review of the O’Reilly Strata Making Data Work Conference (reprinted from my guest blog for the Cloud Council of 7) Monica Rogati of LinkedIn told a story of the early days at the firm, when the reporting system consisted of a single server under someone’s...
by Leif.Walsh | Sep 22, 2011 | MySQL
Some indexing structures are write optimized in that they are better than B-trees at ingesting data. Other indexing structures are read optimized in that they are better than B-trees at query time. Even within B-trees, there is a tradeoff between write performance and...
by Tokutek | Aug 31, 2011 | MySQL
One of President John Kennedy’s most memorable phrases is “ask not what your country can do for you – ask what can you do for your country”. I got to thinking about this over lunch with a fellow colleague in the big data space. After comparing named customers...
by Tokutek | Aug 18, 2011 | MySQL
The summer’s end is rapidly approaching — in the next two weeks or so, most people will be settling back into work. Time to change your mindset, re-evaluate your skills and see if you are ready to go back from the picnic table to the database table....
by Michael.Bender | Aug 11, 2011 | MySQL
Fractal Tree™ indexes are green. They have the potential to be greener still. Here’s why: Remarkably, data centers consume 1-3 percent of all the US electricity. A majority of this power is used to drive servers and storage systems. Significant energy savings...
