Yearly Archives: 2010

Announcing TokuDB for MariaDB

Posted on by John Partridge

Tokutek is pleased to announce support for MariaDB for the first time with TokuDB v4.1.1 for MariaDB v5.1.47.
Our customers are choosing MariaDB more and more frequently for their most demanding database applications. We are delighted to help raise…

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Avoiding Fragmentation with Fractal Trees

Posted on by Martin Farach-Colton

Summary
B-trees suffer from fragmentation. Fragmentation causes headaches — in query performance and space used. Solutions, like dump and reload or OPTIMIZE TABLE are a pain and not always effective. Fractal trees don’t fragment. So if fragmentation is a problem,…

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Scenarios where TokuDB’s Loader is Used

Posted on by zardosht

TokuDB’s loader uses the available multicore computing resources of the machine to presort and insert the data. In the last couple of posts (here and here), Rich and Dave presented performance results of TokuDB’s loader.…

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Loading Tables with TokuDB 4.0

Posted on by dave

Often, the first step in evaluating and deploying a database is to load an existing dataset into the database. In the latest version, TokuDB makes use of multi-core parallelism to speed up loading (and new index creation). Using the loader,…

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Loading Air Traffic Control Data with TokuDB 4.1.1

Posted on by Rich Prohaska

TokuDB has a big advantage over B-trees when trickle loading data into existing tables. However, it is possible to preprocess the data when bulk loading into empty tables or when new indexes are created. TokuDB release 4 now uses a…

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Announcing TokuDB v4.1.1

Posted on by John Partridge

Tokutek is pleased to announce immediate availability of TokuDB for MySQL, version 4.1.1. It is ideally suited for delivering fast response times for complex / high-volume Web applications that must simultaneously store and query large volumes of rapidly arriving…

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Announcing TokuDB v4.1

Posted on by Martin Farach-Colton

Tokutek is pleased to announce immediate availability of TokuDB for MySQL, version 4.1. It is designed for continuous querying and analysis of large volumes of rapidly arriving and changing data, while maintaining full ACID properties.
New in TokuDB v4.1…

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On “Replace Into”, “Insert...

Posted on by zardosht

In posts on June 30 and July 6, I explained how implementing the commands “replace into” and “insert ignore” with TokuDB’s fractal trees data structures can be two orders of magnitude faster than…

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TokuDB speeds up “replace” and...

Posted on by Rich Prohaska

In posts on June 30 and July 6, we explained how implementing the commands “replace into” and “insert ignore” with TokuDB’s fractal trees data structures can be two orders of magnitude faster than implementing them with B-trees.…

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MariaDB and the MySQL Sandbox

Posted on by Rich Prohaska

Tokutek tests its TokuDB Fractal Tree storage engine with multiple MySQL distributions. We make extensive use of the MySQL Sandbox in our test automation. We tweaked the regular expressions that match binary tarball names in the MySQL Sandbox so that…

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