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Big Data Fueling Tokutek Growth
LEXINGTON, MA, Jan 15, 2013 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
Tokutek, the leader in high-performance and agile database storage
engines, today announced a doubling of its customer base and rapid
hiring for the year ending December 31, 2012. Significant milestones
over the last year for the award-winning company included technology
and service partnerships, as well as three upgrades for its flagship
product, TokuDB(R). And to fuel continued growth in 2013, Tokutek
secured additional venture capital funding last November.
"In 2012, Tokutek's technical leadership allowed us build strong
sales momentum as MySQL users chose TokuDB to meet their Big Data
challenges," said Tokutek CEO John Partridge. "In 2013, as big data
expands across organizations of all sizes, Tokutek will be helping
our growing number of customers derive more value from their existing
database investments."
New customers - Over the past 12 months, Tokutek saw accelerating
market adoption of its TokuDB database storage engine as its paying
customer base doubled. Tokutek moved into new market areas such as
copyright surveillance over networks (Evidenzia), social media
monitoring (Swaylo), and machine data (SWRI). Customers range from
highly innovative VC-backed companies such as Intent Media to
category leader public companies such as Limelight Networks. To
support its growing customer base, Tokutek hired engineers and sales
professionals.
Product upgrades - Tokutek introduced three upgrades to its TokuDB
storage engine, which enables databases running advanced web
applications to grow from gigabytes to terabytes while improving
insert speed, query performance, compression, and flexibility. In
January, TokuDB 5.2 improved multi-client scaling and delivered
faster queries. In April, TokuDB v6.0 introduced high performance
replication for MySQL and MariaDB. In September, TokuDB v6.5
introduced a flash-optimized version that helped overcome the common
constraints of space and longevity associated with flash by extending
the life of flash memory while improving compression, performance,
and agility.
Tokutek also conducted preliminary benchmark tests with Fractal
Tree(R) indexing on leading NoSQL database, MongoDB. The results were
published on ODBMS, an influential database information site.
Awards - In February, Tokutek was selected as a finalist in the
Strata 2012 Startup Showcase, where it demonstrated the TokuDB
storage engine for MySQL before one of America's most prestigious big
data conferences. In October, Tokutek founders Michael Bender and
Martin Farach-Colton received a National Science Foundation Grant for
Big Data research. Through their academic work, they hope to extend
the concept of write optimization as a tool for processing big data.
In November, Tokutek CEO John Partridge was one of 15 local
entrepreneurs to receive a 2012 Mass High Tech All-Star Award, which
recognizes driven and influential leaders of New England's innovation
economy.
Partnerships - In addition to being available for download directly
from the Tokutek web site, TokuDB is also supported by Tokutek's
authorized service partners. Last year a new strategic partnership
with PalominoDB, a premier database operations and engineering
consultancy, enabled both companies to better provide database
services and support to their joint customers.
Funding - Tokutek secured a new funding round of $1.5M in November.
TokuDB is powered by Tokutek's proprietary Fractal Tree indexes, a
new data structure that performs up to two orders of magnitude faster
than traditional B-Tree technology. TokuDB continues to be the ideal
choice for complex high-volume applications that require fast
response time and that must simultaneously store and query large
volumes of rapidly arriving data. These include social networking
applications, real-time clickstream analysis, logfile analysis,
ecommerce personalization, and high-speed webcrawling applications.
TokuDB is fully compatible with MySQL and MariaDB.
To learn more about Tokutek:
-- Download a free trial of TokuDB
-- Attend a Webinar overview of TokuDB
-- Read our detailed blog series on TokuDB performance
About Tokutek Inc.
Tokutek, Inc. is the leader in high-performance and
agile database storage solutions. TokuDB(R), our flagship product, is
a storage engine for MySQL and MariaDB that uses Fractal Tree
Indexes. It enables MySQL and MariaDB to scale from GBs to TBs and
provides improved query performance, excellent compression, and
online schema flexibility. TokuDB requires no changes to MySQL
applications or code and is fully ACID and MVCC compliant. The
company is headquartered in Lexington, MA and has offices in New
York, NY. For more information, visit tokutek.com or follow us on
twitter @Tokutek.
About MySQL
MySQL is the most popular open source database software
in the world. Many of the world's largest and fastest-growing
organizations use MySQL to save time and money powering their
high-volume Web sites, critical business systems, communications
networks, and commercial software. MySQL is owned by Oracle, the
world's largest business software company.
About MariaDB
MariaDB strives to be the logical choice for database
professionals looking for a robust, scalable, and reliable RDBMS
(Relational Database Management System). MariaDB can be deployed as a
drop-in replacement for the popular MySQL database and it is built by
the original MySQL architects and most of the original core
developers of MySQL with assistance from the broader community of
Free and open source software developers. In addition to the core
functionality of MySQL, MariaDB offers a rich set of feature
enhancements including alternate storage engines, server
optimizations, and security and performance patches. More information
on MariaDB is available at http://mariadb.org and
http://kb.askmonty.org.
Contact:
Joan Geoghegan
Cavalier Communications LLC
joan@cavalier-communications.com
978-371-3921
SOURCE: Tokutek
mailto:joan@cavalier-communications.com
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