Author Archives: Tom Hotchkiss

Using Gearman for Nightly Build and Test

Posted on October 16, 2009 by Tom Hotchkiss

At Tokutek, Rich Prohaska used Gearman to automate our nightly build and test process for TokuDB for MySQL. Rich is busy working on TokuDB, so I’m writing up an overview of the build and test architecture on his…

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White Paper: Scaling High Performance MySQL...

Posted on October 9, 2009 by Tom Hotchkiss

White Paper: Scaling High Performance MySQL Databases

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TokuDB for MySQL Pricing

Posted on October 1, 2009 by Tom Hotchkiss

TokuDB for MySQL Pricing
Pricing and licensing terms for TokuDB for MySQL

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TokuDB for MySQL Evaluation Guide

Posted on October 1, 2009 by Tom Hotchkiss

TokuDB for MySQL Evaluation Guide
Recommendations for a meaningful evaluation of TokuDB v5.0.

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Attempting to Quantify Fragmentation Effects

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Tom Hotchkiss

We often hear from customers and MySQL experts that fragmentation causes problems such as wasting disk space, increasing backup times, and degrading performance. Typical remedies include periodic “optimize table” or dump and re-load (for example, see Project Golden Gate).…

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TokuDB Storage Engine for MySQL

Posted on April 17, 2009 by Tom Hotchkiss

Tokutek officially announced the TokuDB for MySQL v2.0 Storage Engine, v2.0 on April 16th, 2009. TokuDB uses Fractal Tree (TM) technology to boost MySQL performance for…

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MySQL insert performance with iiBench Python...

Posted on March 18, 2009 by Tom Hotchkiss

Mark Callaghan recently developed and released an enhanced Python version of Tokutek’s iiBench benchmark (Thanks Mark!). We’re happy to see a Python version of the benchmark as it…

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