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It's unrelated work. This is the "fractal tree" in question, open source: https://github.com/Tokutek/ft-index

I see. To clarify, TokuMX's indexing technology doesn't try to improve specific queries or patterns - it simply makes general index maintenance significantly cheaper and less space…

Interesting perspective, but it turns out that the opposite is true. Using better indexing is a general improvement to database performance and manageability.

It's at the database level now.

There have been very informal talks with the folks at 10gen. The topic of getting merged or not will ultimately come down to what users want. Commercialization will start with supp…

LZ4 is on our road-map for experimentation. I could see a faster decompressor really helping when you have high-end flash storage.

TokuMX is indeed a complete product, not an experiment. We're proud of it and ready to support it yesterday :) I completely agree that pluggable storage engines are an interesting …

Most users should expect a big reduction in disk space. Depending on your data and level of fragmentation with regular MongoDB, you could see ~4x-20x reduced disk usage.

"Fractal Tree" is indeed a marketing trademark. But the algorithms used are not necessarily secret. The implementation is similar to the cache oblivious streaming btree: http://sup…