MySQL Conference and Expo Talk on Benchmarking

Posted on by Tim Callaghan

I’ll be speaking on April 11th at 4:30 pm in Room 4 in at the Percona Conference and Expo Talk. The topic will be “Creating a Benchmark Infrastructure That Just Works.

Throughout my career I’ve…

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1 Billion Insertions – The Wait is Over!

Posted on by Tim Callaghan

iiBench measures the rate at which a database can insert new rows while maintaining several secondary indexes. We ran this for 1 billion rows with TokuDB and InnoDB starting last week, right after we launched TokuDB

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Announcing TokuDB v5.2: Improved Multi-Client...

Posted on by Martin Farach-Colton

TokuDB® v5.2, the latest version of Tokutek’s flagship storage engine for MySQL and MariaDB, is now available.
This version offers performance enhancements over previous releases, especially for multi-client scale up and point queries, and extends the cases where ALTER TABLE…

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Fractal Tree Indexes and Mead – MySQL Meetup

Posted on by Tim Callaghan

 
Thanks again to Sheeri Cabral  for having me at the Boston MySQL Meetup on Monday for the talk on “Fractal Tree® Indexes – Theoretical Overview and Customer Use Cases.” The crowd was very interactive, and I appreciated that over 50 people…

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FictionPress Selects TokuDB for Consistent...

Posted on by Lawrence Schwartz

FictionPress
Issues addressed:

Support complex and efficient indexes at 100+ million rows.
Predicable and consistent performance regardless of data size growth.
Fast recovery.

Ensuring Predictable Performance at Scale
The Company:  FictionPress operates both FictionPress.com

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Call for nominations to the MySQL Council

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The MySQL council is looking for candidates for 2012.  Based on community feedback, this will be an open nomination process (and you can nominate yourself).
The MySQL council advocates for the MySQL community, and needs community leaders to help address…

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Top Ten for 2011

Posted on by Lawrence Schwartz

 
It’s almost the end of the year – that means holiday cards, shopping, cooking, parties, and the inevitable year-end top lists (including gems like this one).
In the spirit of end of year list making, we fed…

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Limelight Networks Chooses TokuDB for New Cloud...

Posted on by Lawrence Schwartz

Limelight Networks
Issue addressed: Managing metadata at exabyte scale
Delivering Agile Storage in the Cloud with Billions of Assets
The Company: Founded in 2001, Limelight Networks, Inc (NASDAQ: LLNW) is an Internet platform and services company…

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Fractal Tree Indexes – MySQL Meetup

Posted on by Tim Callaghan

At next month’s Boston MySQL Meetup, I will give a talk: “Fractal Tree Indexes – Theoretical Overview and Customer Use Cases.” The meetup is 7 pm Monday, January 9th, 2012, and will be held at

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A Case for Write Optimizations in MySQL

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As a storage engine developer, I am excited for MySQL 5.6. Looking at http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/whats-new-in-mysql-5.6.html, there has been plenty of work done to improve the performance of reads in MySQL for all storage engines (provided they take advantage of…

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