TokuDB v5.2 Beta Program
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...
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Limelight Networks Chooses TokuDB for New Cloud Storage Service
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)...
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FictionPress Selects TokuDB for Consistent Performance and Fast Disaster...
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...
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Percona MySQL Conference and Expo Week in Review
Thanks to all of those who came by our booth and to see Leif’s presentation on Read Optimization, and to my Lightning Talk on OLTP and OLAP at the Percona MySQL Conference and Expo. It was an...
View ArticleWebinar: Introduction to TokuDB
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®...
View ArticlePercona Live New York Wrap-Up
Tokutek sponsored the Percona Live MySQL / New York 2012 Conference which took place this past Monday and Tuesday. I spent much of the time at our booth discussing TokuDB with conference attendees but...
View ArticleWebinar: Introduction to TokuDB v6.5
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...
View ArticleForbes: “Tokutek Makes Big Data Dance”
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...
View ArticleApril is the Coolest Month
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...
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Getting Interesting
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...
View ArticleLast Week’s Presentations Posted
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...
View ArticleAnnouncing TokuDB v7 Enterprise Edition: Hot Backup and Support
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...
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How TokuMX Gets Great Compression for MongoDB
In my last post, I showed what a Fractal Tree® index is at a high level. Once again, the Fractal Tree index is the data structure inside TokuMX and TokuDB, our MongoDB and MySQL products. One of its...
View ArticleBuilding TokuMX and TokuDB for Production
Recently, we’ve seen a few people ask us about building TokuMX from scratch. While it’s best if you just use the binaries you can get from us (they have all the right optimizations, we’ve tested them,...
View ArticleA TokuDB Stall Caused by a Big Transaction and How It was Fixed
One of our customers sometimes observed lots of simple insertions taking far longer than expected to complete. Usually these insertions completed in milliseconds, but the insertions sometimes were...
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October 8 Webinar: Getting Started with MySQL
Save Time & Money – Do It Right The First Time SPEAKER: Gerry Narvaja, Tokutek DATE: Tuesday, October 8th TIME: 1pm ET If you are thinking of using the leading open source database in a project,...
View ArticleA TokuDB Stall Caused by Conflicting Transactions When Opening a Table
One of our customers reported that ‘create table select from’ statements stall for a period of time equal to the TokuDB lock timeout. This indicated a lock conflict between multiple transactions. In...
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January 28 Webinar: Get More Out of MySQL with TokuDB
You love MySQL and MariaDB for its ease of deployment, but what if you could increase performance and save significant time and money when your application starts to scale without having to change your...
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March 20 Webinar: How to Scale MySQL for Big Data Applications
You may think that you have to buy, install, and get up to speed on a new database if you want to work with large amounts of data, but you can do more than you think with the MySQL you already have....
View ArticleAn Updated Description of Clustering Keys for TokuDB
Covering indexes can result in orders of magnitude performance improvements for queries. Bradley’s presentation on covering indexes describes what a covering index is, how it can effect performance,...
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