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Re:TokuDB open sourced by tveita on Monday April 22, 2013 @03:49PM (#5591397)
My impression was that TokuDB is a single-server database, as a backend for MySQL. In that case it wouldn't be a direct competitor to HBase and Cassandra, both of which you normally wouldn't even consider unless you expect to have a cluster of machines.

You'd arguably be taking a risk by choosing a centralized database for write-heavy applications, which are the hardest to scale, but I could see it as a good fit for the applications where people currently use sharded MySQL.

Re:TokuDB open sourced by brianatdts on Monday April 22, 2013 @04:57PM (#5591729)
Cassandra and HBase Shard, they just shard differently since the shard is baked into the system while in MySQL its not. If you get right down do it, When you Shard on Toku, it will simply be more efficient at a storage level.