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TokuMX tip: Create any field name you want 15 Aug 2013 | 08:26 pm
A common MongoDB tip is to create short field names to save storage space. Because MongoDB does not compress its data on disk and stores field names in each document, using longer field names leads to...
Building TokuMX and TokuDB for Production 8 Aug 2013 | 12:06 am
Recently, we’ve seen a few people ask us about building TokuMX from scratch. While it’s best if you just use the binaries you can get from us (they have all the right optimizations, we’ve tested them,...
Slides from Boston MongoDB User Group Meetup on 7/31/13 2 Aug 2013 | 07:27 pm
On Wednesday night, the Boston MongoDB User group was kind enough to have me speak about TokuMX Internals. I spoke about Fractal Tree® indexes and the technical reasons behind the benefits they provid...
Comparing MongoDB, MySQL, and TokuMX Data Layout 22 Jul 2013 | 10:01 pm
A lot is said about the differences in the data between MySQL and MongoDB. Things such as “MongoDB is document based”, “MySQL is relational”, “InnoDB has a clustering key”, etc.. Some may wonder how T...
Why Unique Indexes are Bad 15 Jul 2013 | 08:56 pm
Before creating a unique index in TokuMX or TokuDB, ask yourself, “does my application really depend on the database enforcing uniqueness of this key?” If the answer is ANYTHING other than yes, do not...
How TokuMX Gets Great Compression for MongoDB 10 Jul 2013 | 01:41 am
In my last post, I showed what a Fractal Tree® index is at a high level. Once again, the Fractal Tree index is the data structure inside TokuMX and TokuDB, our MongoDB and MySQL products. One of its s...
TokuMX Fractal Tree(R) indexes, what are they? 3 Jul 2013 | 01:44 am
With our recent release of TokuMX 1.0, we’ve made some bold claims about how fast TokuMX can run MongoDB workloads. In this post, I want to dig into one of the big areas of improvement, write performa...
Announcing TokuMX v1.0: Toku+Mongo = You Can Have It All 19 Jun 2013 | 09:42 pm
Tokutek is known for its full-featured fast-indexing technology. MongoDB is known for its great document-based data model and ease of use. TokuMX, version 1.0, combines the best of both worlds. So wh...
Announcing TokuDB v7 Enterprise Edition: Hot Backup and Support 11 Jun 2013 | 09:28 pm
As promised, the Enterprise Edition of TokuDB®, Version 7, is ready. TokuDB Version 7, Enterprise Edition, introduces Hot Backup. You can now back up all your TokuDB tables directly from MySQL or Mari...
iiBench Benchmark: TokuMX vs. MongoDB 6 Jun 2013 | 11:52 pm
Tokutek created the iiBench benchmark… back in 2008. The point of the benchmark is to measure the performance of indexed insertions over time. It uses an extremely simple schema, one table with a sequ...
