We are excited to announce TokuDB® v6.0, the latest version of Tokutek’s flagship storage engine for MySQL and MariaDB.

This version offers feature and performance enhancements over previous releases, support for XA (two-phase transactional commits), better compression, and reduced performance variability associated with checkpointing. This release also brings TokuDB support up to date on MySQL v5.1, MySQL v5.5 and MariaDB v5.2. There’s a lot of great technical stuff under the hood in this release and I’ll be reviewing the improvements one-by-one over the course of this week.

I’ll be posting more details about the new features and performance, so here’s an overview of what’s in store.

Replication Slave Lag

One of the things TokuDB does well is single-threaded insertions, which translates directly into less slave lag. With TokuDB v6.0, we introduce support for XA, which insures for …

Our latest changes have been pushed to public mysql@facebook branch, allowing this post to happen \o/

Recently we started rolling out InnoDB compression to our main database tier, and that has been a huge undertaking for multiple teams and a major test for MySQL. Nizam was sure the hero of all this work, and make sure you don’t miss his talk about it at MySQL conference.

Though MySQL manuals have quite some introduction about benefits of compression, we agree that benefits are good – in theory we can do less reads from disk, keep more data in buffer pool or flashcache and take less …

Ensuring sufficient disk I/O to catch copyright violations at network speed. Evidenzia GmbH & Co. KG

Issues addressed:

• Storage growth, including maxed-out disk I/O utilization
• Performance issues and business impact due to slow selects
• Inability to revise data schema on the fly

The Company: Evidenzia GmbH & Co. KG is one of the leading partners of the software, movie and music industry when it comes to tracing copyright infringements and illegal file sharing activities in peer-to-peer networks. Evidenzia helps copyright owners in protecting their intellectual property. Their powerful technologies enable …

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 is non-blocking, in particular adding Hot Column Rename.

TokuDB v5.2 maintains all our established advantages: fast trickle load, fast bulk load, fast range queries through clustering indexes, hot schema changes, great compression, no fragmentation, and full MySQL compatibility for ease of installation. See our benchmark page for details.

Multi-client workloads

In TokuDB v5.2, we have reworked our locking scheme to better support multi-client workloads, and as always, we have focused on large databases. How did we do? Let’s check out some …

Did you know that the following query actually performs a JOIN? You can’t see it, but it’s there:

SELECT the_day, COUNT(*), SUM(clicks), SUM(cost)
FROM ad_clicks_by_day
WHERE the_day >= …

I’m creating a library of benchmarks and test suites that will run as part of a Continuous Integration (CI) process here at Tokutek. My goal is to regularly measure several aspects of our storage engine over time: performance, correctness, memory/CPU/disk utilization, etc. I’ll also be running tests against InnoDB and other databases for comparative analysis. I plan on posting a series of blog entries as my CI framework evolves, for now I have the results of my first benchmark.

Compression is an always-on feature of TokuDB. There are no server/session variables to enable compression or change the compression level (one goal of TokuDB is to have as few tuning parameters as possible). My compression benchmark uses iiBench to measure the insert performance and compression achieved by …

InnoDB uses an index-organized data storage technique, wherein the primary key acts as the clustered index and this clustered index holds the data. Its for this reason that understanding the basics of InnoDB primary key is very important, and hence the need for these notes.

In my continuing blog series on MySQL 5.5 features (see performance/scale and replication entries) today I covering some of the new InnoDB manageability and efficiency options.  5.5, with the newly re-architected InnoDB, provides better user control over internal InnoDB settings so things like performance, scale and storage can easily be monitored, tuned and optimized for specific use cases and application loads.

Along these lines, some of the key advances and features available in MySQL 5.5 and InnoDB are:
 

• Faster Index Creation - MySQL 5.5 can now add or drop indexes without copying the underlying data of the entire target table.  This improves the …

In my continuing blog series on MySQL 5.5 features (see performance/scale and replication entries) today I covering some of the new InnoDB manageability and efficiency options.  5.5, with the newly re-architected InnoDB, provides better user control over internal InnoDB settings so things like performance, scale and storage can easily be monitored, tuned and optimized for specific use cases and application loads.

Along these lines, some of the key advances and features available in MySQL 5.5 and InnoDB are:
 

• Faster Index Creation - MySQL 5.5 can now add or drop indexes without copying the underlying data of the entire target table.  This improves the efficiency and …

Cloud computing has been one of the most discussed topic over the year, and the discussion is not over because what is really being discussed is the way we will access computing an storage resources in the future. Even famous French intellectuals are giving their opinion and making predictions. Future will decide on predictions's accuracy.

What is usually less discussed is the technology behind cloud-computing, though this is no secret that virtualization is playing a key role. Cloud data-centers will be loaded with virtual machines each of these machines potentially requiring in disk-space what a complete operating system (OS) requires, which can go up to many gigabytes. How much disk-space does a virtual machine image (vdi) really consum? The only good answer is: too much. Too much because the OS is part of the infrastructure as …