New TokuDB v5.2
TokuDB® v5.2 is a drop-in replacement for InnoDB that scales MySQL® from GBs to TBs while improving insert speed, query performance, compression, and online schema flexibility. Uses standard SQL and supports ACID and MVCC.
Fractal Tree™ indexes are green. They have the potential to be greener still. Here’s why:
Remarkably, data centers consume 1-3 percent of all the US electricity. A majority of this power is used to drive servers and storage systems.…
When I interviewed at Tokutek, I met a team of distinguished academics and engineers who could calmly and thoughtfully wax eloquent about the finer points of B-tree and Fractal Tree™ indexing, drive I/Os, and database engines. Soon…
We were happy to see a lot of folks from Japan on Twitter this weekend having a discussion about MySQL and Tokutek. While we always endeavor to explain ourselves as simply as possible, hearing what users and peers have to…
Thanks again to Erin O’Neill and Mike Tougeron for having me at the SF MySQL Meetup last month for the talk on “Understanding Indexing.” The crowd was very interactive, and I appreciated that over 100 people signed up for…
Last week I gave a talk entitled “Don’t Thrash: How to Cache your Hash.” The talk took place at the Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures (ADS) in a medieval castle turned conference center in Bertinoro, Italy.…
Indexes can reduce the amount of data your query touches by orders of magnitude. This results in a proportional query speedup. So what happens when you define a nice set of indexes and you don’t get the performance pop you…
At this week’s SF MySQL Meetup, I will give a talk: “Understanding Indexing: Three rules on making indexes around queries to provide good performance.” The meetup is 7 pm tomorrow (Wednesday, 6/22), and will be held at CBS Interactive…
Percona’s TPCC for MySQL toolset allows one to measure the query performance for an OLTP workload on various MySQL storage engines. The toolset includes a program to load the database tables, and a program to run queries and measure…
Yesterday, Tokutek was invited (thanks to David Hughson, Vice-Consul of the British Consulate) to the Massachusetts State House for a forum on international business, hosted by Governor Deval Patrick. I felt pretty good about our Commonwealth – apparently we are…
