New TokuDB v6.0
TokuDB® v6.0 scales MySQL® and MariaDB® from GBs to TBs while improving insert and query speed, replication performance, compression, ... and online schema flexibility. .............
Author Archives: Martin Farach-Colton
On April 1st, the Department of Computer Science at Rutgers University, where I am a professor, held an open house. I gave a talk called “Elephants on a Trapeze: Keeping Big Data Agile”.
The talk is an introduction to…
Why do B-trees need “Tricks” to work?
Marko Mäkelä recently posted a couple of “tips and tricks” you can use to improve InnoDB performance. Tips and tricks. A general purpose relational database like MySQL shouldn’t need “tips and tricks”…
Hot Column Addition and Deletion (HCAD)
In the previous HCAD post, I described HCAD and showed that it can reduce the downtime of column addition (or deletion) from 18 hours to 3 seconds. In fact, the downtime of InnoDB…
From 31 minutes to 2 seconds
Hot Indexing Overview
TokuDB v5.0 introduces several features that are new to the MySQL world. Recently, we posted on HCAD: Hot Column addition and Deletion. In this post, we talk about Hot…
From 18 hours to 3 seconds!
Hot Column Addition and Deletion (HCAD) Overview
TokuDB v5.0 introduces several features that are new to the MySQL world. In this series of posts, we’re going to present some information on these features:…
Review
In part one, I presented a very brief and particular view of partitioning. I covered what partitioning is, with hardly a mention of why one would use partitioning. In this post, I’ll talk about a few use cases…
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,…
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…
