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MySQL Schema Agility on SSDs

Posted on by Tim Callaghan

TokuDB v6.5 adds the ability to expand certain column types without downtime.  Users can now enlarge char, varchar, varbinary, and integer columns with no interruption to insert/update/delete statements on the altered table.  Prior to this feature, enlarging one of these…

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Three Ways that Fractal Tree Indexes Improve SSD...

Posted on by Bradley C. Kuszmaul

Since Fractal Tree indexes turn random writes into sequential writes, it’s easy to see why they offer a big advantage for maintaining indexes on rotating disks. It turns out that that Fractal Tree indexing also offers signficant advantages on SSD.…

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Announcing TokuDB v6.5: Optimized for Flash

Posted on by Martin Farach-Colton

We are excited to announce TokuDB® v6.5, the latest version of Tokutek’s flagship storage engine for MySQL and MariaDB.
This version offers optimization for Flash as well as more hot schema change operations for improved agility.
We’ll be posting more…

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Tokutek CEO Named Innovation All Star

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On Friday our CEO John Partridge was named a “Tech Luminary” in the 17th annual Innovation All Stars award, which is given jointly by Mass High Tech (MHT) and the Boston Business Journal… (BBJ). As noted in MHT by

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Strange Loop Talk on Indexing

Posted on by Zardosht Kasheff

At next week’s Strange Loop conference, I will give a talk on “Understanding Indexing”. The session is 10 am Monday, September 24th, and will be held in the Midland States Room….

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Looking for MongoDB users to test Fractal Tree...

Posted on by Tim Callaghan

In my three previous blogs I wrote about our implementation of Fractal Tree Indexes on MongoDB, showing a 10x insertion performance increase, a 268x query performance increase, and a comparison of covered indexes and clustered indexes…. The

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XLDB Tutorial on Data Structures and Algorithms

Posted on by Bradley C. Kuszmaul

Next week Michael and I (Bradley) will be travelling to Silicon Valley to present a tutorial on Data Structures and Algorithms for Big Databases at the 6th XLDB Conference….
The tutorial, which is 4 hours on Monday afternoon, aims

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MongoDB Index Shootout: Covered Indexes vs....

Posted on by Tim Callaghan

In my two previous blogs I wrote about our implementation of Fractal Tree Indexes on MongoDB, showing a 10x insertion performance increase and a 268x query performance increase. MongoDB’s covered indexes… can provide some performance benefits over a regular

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