Over several blog posts, Tim has presented performance results on large data sets of TokuMX, our MongoDB product with fractal tree indexes integrated, side by side with MongoDB. Results look good. We’ve shown improved throughput numbers on a sysbench benchmark, faster load times, and high compression.
So what is TokuMX, and how does it achieve this performance?
TokuMX has replaced ALL of the storage code in MongoDB with fractal trees. Every collection, every secondary index, every metadata collection is stored with fractal trees, the same technology that implements the TokuDB storage engine for MySQL. That is, all data is stored and managed with our transactional, ACID and MVCC-compliant, write-optimized storage library.
TokuMX achieves …
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