Announcing TokuDB v7: Open Source and More

Posted on by Martin Farach-Colton

Every few months, I get the fun job of announcing what’s new in TokuDB®, but this time is special. With Version 7, TokuDB for MySQL and MariaDB is going open source….
The free Community Edition is fully functional and

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April is the Coolest Month

Posted on by Lawrence Schwartz

If T.S. Eliot were a MySQL DBA, I think he would have been more upbeat about April.
We are gearing up for an incredible second half of April. We will be presenting three separate sessions at the Percona Live: …

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MongoDB Multi-Statement Transactions? Yes We Can!

Posted on by zardosht

Earlier, I talked about… the transactional semantics we are introducing to MongoDB. As I hinted at the end of the post, we are actually doing more. We are introducing multi-statement transactions. That’s right, multiple queries, updates, deletes, and inserts will

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MongoDB Transactions? Yes

Posted on by zardosht

People claim that MongoDB is not transactional…. It actually is, and that’s a good thing.
In MongoDB 2.2, individual operations are Atomic. By having per database locks control reads and writes to collections, write operations on collections are Consistent

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TokuDB Fast Update Benchmark

Posted on by Tim Callaghan

Last month my colleague Rich Prohaska covered the technical details of our “Fast Update” feature which we added to TokuDB in version 6.6.  The message based architecture of Fractal Tree Indexes… allows us to defer certain operations while still maintaining the

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Wanted: Evaluators to Try MongoDB with Fractal...

Posted on by Tim Callaghan

We recently resumed our discussion around bringing Fractal Tree indexes to MongoDB.  This effort includes Tokutek’s interview with Jeff Kelly at Strata as well as my two recent tech blogs which describe the compression achieved on a generic MongoDB …

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Sysbench Benchmark for MongoDB

Posted on by Tim Callaghan

As we continue to test our Fractal Tree Indexing with MongoDB, I’ve been updating my benchmark infrastructure so I can compare performance, correctness, and resource utilization.  Sysbench has long been a standard for testing MySQL performance, so I created a…

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The Last Mile for Big Data – Strata Overview...

Posted on by Lawrence Schwartz

During the second half of our CUBE discussion with Wikibon analyst Jeff Kelly at this year’s Strata Conference… in Santa Clara, we talked about the tipping point for Big Data. Strata veterans could see at a glance that this year’s

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MySQL and MongoDB – Strata Discussion with...

Posted on by Lawrence Schwartz

We had the opportunity to do a CUBE interview with Wikibon analyst Jeff Kelly at last week’s Strata Conference in Santa Clara. In the first part of our conversation, we discuss how our success in integrating Tokutek’s Fractal Tree® technology …

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MongoDB + Fractal Tree Indexes = High Compression

Posted on by Tim Callaghan

One doesn’t have to look far to see that there is strong interest in MongoDB compression. MongoDB has an open ticket from 2009 titled “Option to Store Data Compressed” with Fix Version/s planned but not scheduled…. The ticket has

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