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Can someone give some context to this? I'm just seeing a corporatey website with some all-caps text and my eyes glaze over.

kbenson 12y ago
Percona provides a patched version of MySQL with many enhancements. I believe they incorporation many of the useful community patches, such as from Google, and some of their own to make InnoDB function better on SSDs, etc (at least that was the case in the past, many of those may have made it into mainline MySQL now). They also provide their own storage engine, XtraDB, with it's own set of interesting features. Additionally, they provide a set of utilities as the percona toolkit to automate more advanced things, such as replication testing through table data checksums, zero-downtime table changes, etc. Most of it is free, I think some advanced XtraDB features require payment (?), but they sell support and training.
e1ven 12y ago
Percona offer best-in-class support for MySQL. Tokutek make a database engine. They offer it in two versions- • One version (TokuDB) which runs inside MySQL (Alongside InnoDB/XtraDB, MyISAM, etc). • One version (TokuMX) which runs in/as a fork of MongoDB. Since Mongo didn't historically use plugable storage engines, they had to fork the MongoDB code in order to use their storage engine. Their engine has some advantages over the traditional Mongo storage engine (Now called MMAPv1) - One of the most prominent was that it supported in-line compression. Many of these advantages are mitigated somewhat by MongoDB's new WiredTiger engine.
darkstar999 12y ago
> some all-caps text The section titles are capitalized. Come on.
- softbuilder 12y ago
  I was wondering so I went to look. This is what I see: "ACQUISITION ENABLES PERCONA TO EXPAND AND EXTEND OFFERINGS DRAMATICALLY IMPROVING DATABASE PERFORMANCE WHILE LOWERING TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP FOR CUSTOMERS" I don't think the parent was exaggerating.
  - softbuilder 12y ago
    Someone care to explain the downvotes? I refuted and/or clarified an unhelpful comment. And I'm correct.
acomjean 12y ago
Tokutek provides an "engine" for MySQL. Each table in MySQL has associated with it a engine that does the storing and retreaval. Like all software it's optimized for certain use cases. Tokutek used a fractal tree index to allow faster lookups. I think they could reindex a table without locking . They more recently did an engine for mongodb A description from the Boston MySQL group a few years back (I was at the talk:) http://www.tokutek.com/2012/01/fractal-tree-indexes-and-mead-mysql-meetup/ http://www.tokutek.com/2012/01/fractal-tree-indexes-and-mead...

kbenson 12y ago

Percona provides a patched version of MySQL with many enhancements. I believe they incorporation many of the useful community patches, such as from Google, and some of their own to make InnoDB function better on SSDs, etc (at least that was the case in the past, many of those may have made it into mainline MySQL now). They also provide their own storage engine, XtraDB, with it's own set of interesting features. Additionally, they provide a set of utilities as the percona toolkit to automate more advanced things, such as replication testing through table data checksums, zero-downtime table changes, etc. Most of it is free, I think some advanced XtraDB features require payment (?), but they sell support and training.

e1ven 12y ago

Percona offer best-in-class support for MySQL. Tokutek make a database engine. They offer it in two versions- • One version (TokuDB) which runs inside MySQL (Alongside InnoDB/XtraDB, MyISAM, etc). • One version (TokuMX) which runs in/as a fork of MongoDB. Since Mongo didn't historically use plugable storage engines, they had to fork the MongoDB code in order to use their storage engine. Their engine has some advantages over the traditional Mongo storage engine (Now called MMAPv1) - One of the most prominent was that it supported in-line compression. Many of these advantages are mitigated somewhat by MongoDB's new WiredTiger engine.

darkstar999 12y ago

> some all-caps text The section titles are capitalized. Come on.

softbuilder 12y ago
I was wondering so I went to look. This is what I see: "ACQUISITION ENABLES PERCONA TO EXPAND AND EXTEND OFFERINGS DRAMATICALLY IMPROVING DATABASE PERFORMANCE WHILE LOWERING TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP FOR CUSTOMERS" I don't think the parent was exaggerating.
- softbuilder 12y ago
  Someone care to explain the downvotes? I refuted and/or clarified an unhelpful comment. And I'm correct.

acomjean 12y ago

Tokutek provides an "engine" for MySQL. Each table in MySQL has associated with it a engine that does the storing and retreaval. Like all software it's optimized for certain use cases. Tokutek used a fractal tree index to allow faster lookups. I think they could reindex a table without locking . They more recently did an engine for mongodb A description from the Boston MySQL group a few years back (I was at the talk:) http://www.tokutek.com/2012/01/fractal-tree-indexes-and-mead-mysql-meetup/ http://www.tokutek.com/2012/01/fractal-tree-indexes-and-mead...