{"id":7223,"date":"2015-04-18T03:41:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T01:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/?p=7223"},"modified":"2015-04-18T03:41:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T01:41:07","slug":"percona-live-2015-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/mysql\/percona-live-2015-reflections","title":{"rendered":"Percona Live 2015: Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some personal reflections on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.percona.com\/live\/mysql-conference-2015\/\">PerconaLive 2015<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Percona acquires Tokutek<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well done! Tokutek develops the TokuDB storage engine for MySQL and TokuMX engine for MongoDB. I will discuss the MySQL aspect only.<\/p>\n<p>TokuDB was released as open source in 2013. It has attained a lot of traction and I have used it myself for some time. I met\u00a0issues with locking or otherwise operational difficulties which I reported, and otherwise was fascinated by such features as great compression, online schema changes, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Recently another company, InfiniDB, that also released its MySQL-backed codebase as open source, went out of business. I was afraid the same might happen to Tokutek.<\/p>\n<p>I see Percona&#8217;s purchase as a very good move for the community. I saw a lot of TokuDB interest in Percona for some time now, and it is clearly interested in the\u00a0technology. I expect they will add their own hands-on experience into the development of more operations-friendly features; put effort in solving locking issues (it&#8217;s been a while since I last checked, of course some of these may have been addressed by now). I am guessing they will work on\u00a0a Galera\/TokuDB integration and offer a &#8220;Toku-XtraDB-Cluster&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>TokuDB can compete with InnoDB in many places, while in others each will have its distinct advantage.<\/p>\n<p>I see this is as good news for the community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Community Awards and Lightning Talks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On a completely different subject, I believe it is commonly accepted that this year&#8217;s setup for the community awards &amp;\u00a0lightning talks was unsuccessful. The noise was astounding, human traffic was interrupting and overall this was a poor experience. We (Giuseppe Maxia, Kortney Runyan &amp; myself) made\u00a0a quick, informal brainstorming on this and came up with a couple ideas. One of which we hope to try in the upcoming <em>Percona Live Europe &#8211; Amsterdam<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>We apologize to the speakers for the\u00a0difficulties.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Percona Live Europe &#8211; Amsterdam<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Haha! Having recently relocated to the Netherlands I&#8217;m of course very happy. But regardless, Percona Live London was fun &#8211; and yet\u00a0running on low fuel. I think it was a great idea to change location (and more locations expected in the future). This is the path taken by such conferences as OSCon, Velocity, Strata and more. Amsterdam in particular, as I&#8217;ve recently learned, is especially appreciated by many. I think this conf will do great!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Woz<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And now for something completely different. Woz&#8217; talk was that. I&#8217;m happy he came; I appreciate that he discussed education; and it was fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some personal reflections on PerconaLive 2015: Percona acquires Tokutek Well done! Tokutek develops the TokuDB storage engine for MySQL and TokuMX engine for MongoDB. I will discuss the MySQL aspect only. TokuDB was released as open source in 2013. It has attained a lot of traction and I have used it myself for some time. 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