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MongoDB’s flexible schema: How to fix write amplification

Being schemaless is one of the key features of MongoDB. On the bright side this allows developers to easily modify the schema of their collections without waiting for the database to be ready to accept a new schema. However schemaless is not free and one of the drawbacks is write amplification. Let’s focus on that topic.

Write amplification?

The link between schema and write amplification is not obvious at first sight. So let’s first look at a table in the relational world:

mysql> SELECT * FROM user LIMIT 2;
+----+-------+------------+-----------+-----------+----------------------------------+---------+-----------------------------------+------------+------------+
| id | login | first_name | last_name | city      | country                          | zipcode | address                           | password   | birth_year | …
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Percona Acquires Tokutek : My Thoughts #3 : Fractal Tree Indexes

Last week I wrote up my thoughts about the Percona acquisition of Tokutek from the perspective of TokuDB and TokuMX[se]. In this third blog of the trilogy I'll cover the acquisition and the future of the Fractal Tree Index. The Fractal Tree Index is the foundational technology upon which all Tokutek products are built.



 So what is a Fractal Tree Index? To quote the Wikipedia page:
"a Fractal Tree index is a tree data structure that keeps data sorted and allows searches and …

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LinkBenchX: benchmark based on arrival request rate

An idea for a benchmark based on the “arrival request” rate that I wrote about in a post headlined “Introducing new type of benchmark” back in 2012 was implemented in Sysbench. However, Sysbench provides only a simple workload, so to be able to compare InnoDB with TokuDB, and later MongoDB with Percona TokuMX, I wanted to use more complicated scenarios. (Both TokuDB and TokuMX are part of Percona’s product line, in the case you missed Tokutek now part of the Percona family.)

Thanks to Facebook – they provide LinkBench, a benchmark that emulates the social graph …

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MySQL, Percona, MariaDB long running processes clean up one liner

There are tools like pt-kill from the percona tool kit that may print/kill the long running transactions at MariaDB, MySQL or at Percona data instances, but a lot of backup scripts are just some simple bash lines.
So checking for long running transactions before the backup to be executed seems to be a step that is missed a lot.

Here is one line that might be just added in every bash script before the backup to be executed
Variant 1. Just log all the processlist entries and calculate which ones were running longer than TIMELIMIT:

$ export TIMELIMIT=70 && echo "$(date) : check for long runnig queries start:" >> /tmp/processlist.list.to.kill && mysql -BN -e 'show processlist;' | tee -a /tmp/processlist.list.to.kill | awk -vlongtime=${TIMELIMIT} '($6>longtime){print "kill "$1";"}' | tee -a /tmp/processlist.list.to.kill

Variant 2: Log all the processlist, calculate the calculate which processes …

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Percona Acquires Tokutek : My Thoughts #2 : TokuMX and TokuMXse

A few days ago I wrote up my thoughts about the Percona acquisition of Tokutek with respect to TokuDB. In this blog I'm going to do the same for TokuMX and TokuMXse. And in a few days I'll wrap up this trilogy by sharing my thoughts about Fractal Tree Indexes.

Again, when I'm writing up something that I was very involved with in the past I think it's important to disclose that I worked at Tokutek for 3.5 years (08/2011 - 01/2015) as VP/Engineering and I do not have any equity in Tokutek or Percona.

Since much of the MySQL crowd might be hearing about Tokutek's "other products" for the first time I'll provide a little history of both of the products before I dive in deeper.

TokuMX is a fork of MongoDB …

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Percona Acquires Tokutek : My Thoughts #1 : TokuDB

Two weeks ago Percona announced it's acquisition of Tokutek (April 14, 2015). The analyst coverage was a bit fluffy for my liking, but I decided to give it some time and see if anything "meaty" would come along, and ... it hasn't. The sheer number of tweets on Twitter was impressive, which makes me hopeful that the acquisition raised awareness to the Tokutek technologies and that the Tokutek products have a found a good home

I've been thinking a lot about the future of the Tokutek technologies over these same two weeks and want to share them publicly. I'm going to cover TokuDB in this blog post, TokuMX in a few days, and finally Fractal Tree Indexes a few days later. [Full disclosure: I worked at Tokutek for 3.5 years (08/2011 - 01/2015) as VP/Engineering and I do not have any equity in Tokutek or Percona]

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Why Percona Acquired Tokutek: by Peter Zaitsev

It is my pleasure to announce that Percona has acquired Tokutek and will take over development and support for TokuDB® and TokuMX™ as well as the revolutionary Fractal Tree® indexing technology that enables those products to deliver improved performance, reliability and compression for modern Big Data applications.

At Percona we have been working with the Tokutek team since 2009, helping to improve performance and scalability. The TokuDB storage engine has been available for Percona Server for about a year, so joining forces is quite a natural step for us.

Fractal Tree indexing technology—developed by years of data science research at MIT, Stony Brook University and Rutgers University—is the new generation data structure which, for many workloads, leapfrogs traditional B-tree technology which was invented in 1972 (over 40 years ago!).  It is also often …

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Tokutek now part of the Percona family

It is my pleasure to announce that Percona has acquired Tokutek and will take over development and support for TokuDB® and TokuMX™ as well as the revolutionary Fractal Tree® indexing technology that enables those products to deliver improved performance, reliability and compression for modern Big Data applications.

At Percona we have been working with the Tokutek team since 2009, helping to improve performance and scalability. The TokuDB storage engine has been available for Percona Server for about a year, so joining forces is quite a natural step for us.

Fractal Tree indexing technology—developed by years of data science research at MIT, Stony Brook University and Rutgers University—is the new generation data structure which, for many workloads, leapfrogs traditional B-tree technology which was invented in 1972 (over 40 years ago!).  It is also often superior to LSM indexing, especially for mixed workloads.

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Towards (and beyond) ONE MILLION queries per second

At Percona Live MySQL Conference 2015 next week I’ll be presenting on “Towards One MILLION queries per second” on 14th April at 4:50pm in Ballroom A.

This is the story of work I’ve been doing to get MySQL executing ONE MILLION SQL queries per second. It involves tales of MySQL, tales of the POWER8 Processor and a general amount of fun in extracting huge amounts of performance.

As I speak, I’m working on some even more impressive benchmark results! New hardware, new MySQL versions and really breaking news on MySQL scalability.

VMware Continuent at Percona Live

Don't miss these MySQL clustering and replication keynotes and sessions next week:

Keynote: What has the cloud done lately for my data? (Robert Hodges, VMware)  Moving Workloads Effectively to Hybrid Cloud Deployments (MC Brown, VMware)  Tutorial: Advanced MySQL replication features roundup (Giuseppe Maxia, VMware) Pivot tables: Analytics in pure SQL (Giuseppe Maxia, VMware) The perils of

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