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ft-index

This is a mirror of github.com/percona/PerconaFT that is kept here for legacy purposes.

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This is a mirror of github.com/percona/PerconaFT that is kept here for legacy purposes.

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HN mentions by year8 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2013-04-22 17:03:29 UTC to 2021-12-01 15:19:41 UTC.

01232013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20132014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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espeed·Oct 13, 2018
Note that some of the people involved are also the original authors of TokuDB [0], including Bradley Kuszmaul [1] , Michael Bender [2], and Martin Farach-Colton [3] who were the founders of Tokutek (acquired by Percona in 2015). Previous discussion with the authors: A Comparison of Log-Structured Merge (LSM) and Fractal Tree Indexing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9248298 [0] TokuDB Fractal Tree Index https://github.com/Tokutek/ft-index TokuDB Engine https://github.com/percona/tokudb-engine [1] Bradley Kuszmaul http://people.csail.mit.edu/bradley/startups.html [2] Michael Bender https://www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~bender/ [3] Martin Farach-Colton https://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~farach/
In BetrFS: An in-kernel file system that uses Bε trees to organize on-disk storage
zardosht·Jul 5, 2014
Your last question is a bit loaded with a bunch of "ifs", so let's unwind it. I don't know what MongoDB will "support" as far as other engines go. But assuming we, Tokutek, release something that we support that is our engine plugged into 2.8 using MongoDB's storage engine plugin, then according to the design we heard about at MongoDBWorld, that product will be what you think it is: Mongo with geo and "other bells", and TokuMX's compression + write performance. But 2.8 is a bit away and the storage engine API is a very fresh development. I don't think anyone is in a position to be able to really guarantee what it would look like and how TokuFT (https://github.com/Tokutek/ft-index/) will plug into it. I definitely cannot make any promises. If you are interested in TokuMX + some missing features from MongoDB (sounds like geo), and don't min
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d discussing your needs and use cases with our sales guys, please give us feedback at http://www.tokutek.com/contact/. As I mentioned previously, user feedback drives what we do, so at the very least, you can provide some additional data points.
In Call me maybe: MongoDB (2013)
leif·Aug 1, 2013
Tokutek is hiring in Lexington, MA - Full Time - Technical Support Engineer Tokutek delivers next generation storage technology for the database world. We develop the open-source, high-performance Fractal Tree indexing library (http://github.com/Tokutek/ft-index) and its integration into MySQL as TokuDB (http://tokutek.com/tokudb-for-mysql) and into MongoDB as TokuMX (http://tokutek.com/tokumx-for-mongodb). http://tokutek.com/careers (the QA position has been filled and will be taken off this page soon) We are looking for a full-time Technical Support Engineer to join our product development team. This position interacts directly with customers, troubleshooting issues and working closely with engineering to resolve bugs. Ideal candidates have 5+ years experience in software support and a background in databases. The position reports dire
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ctly to the VP of Engineering. Responsibilities - Work with customers, community users, and evaluators to resolve issues - Create issue reproducers for internal test/fix process - Identify areas of needed improvement in product features, usability, and documentation - Participate in our ongoing development process improvements (CI, release engineering, etc.) Requirements - Experience using/testing relational databases (SQL, architecture, schema), MySQL is a plus - Ability to work independently in an entrepreneurial, start-up environment - Comfortable in Linux (usage and scripting) - Excellent verbal and written communication skills - Solid testing skills Desirable - Experience with MongoDB - Application development skills (C, C++, Python, Perl, Java, Ruby, PHP) Location: Lexington, MA
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2013)

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