Sorting a Terabyte in 197 seconds
I just returned from The 21st ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), held in Calgary, where I gave a talk about my entry to the sorting contest. I sorted…

Tokutek® announces the release the release of the TokuDB storage engine for MySQL®, version 2.1.0. This release offers the following improvements over our previous release:

Faster indexing of sequential keys.
Faster bulk loads on tables with auto-increment fields.
Faster…

In our last post, Bradley described how auto increment works in TokuDB. In this post, I explain one of our implementation’s big benefits, the ability to combine better primary keys with clustered primary keys.

In working with customers,…