Evaluate supporting TokuDB engine on MariaDB

Created on 12 June 2013, almost 12 years ago

Updated 6 May 2025, 6 days ago

TokuDB is now open source.
While the MariaDB makers are working on integrating Apache's Cassandra engine, a completely new "NewSQL" engine, promising to bring together the best of SQL and NoSQL worlds, TokuDB is right now a working alternative that is said to bring impressive performance boosts, especially for very large DBs. It is also said to be fully compatible with MySQL, whatever that means, and therefore a drop-in alternative to InnoDB.

While support for TokuDB could certainly live in contrib, Core might be interested in shipping with major performance improvements. We could evaluate if TokuDB would make a considerable difference, and make sure it works with our current MySQL/InnoDB implementation, so a contrib plug-in wouldn't be needed at all. If performance gains aren't impressive or there are major problems or incompatibilities, we would switch over to a contrib solution or won't fix it.

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Postponed: needs info

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11.0 🔥

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database system

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Pancho UTC+2 🇪🇺 EU

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Comment 6 days ago →
🇺🇸United States smustgrave
Thank you for creating this issue to improve Drupal.

We are working to decide if this task is still relevant to a currently supported version of Drupal. There hasn't been any discussion here for over 8 years which suggests that this has either been implemented or is no longer relevant. Your thoughts on this will allow a decision to be made.

Since we need more information to move forward with this issue, the status is now Postponed (maintainer needs more info). If we don't receive additional information to help with the issue, it may be closed after three months.

Thanks!
Comment 6 days ago →
🇬🇧United Kingdom longwave UK
TokuDB for MySQL looks to be abandoned since about 2015 and https://www.tokutek.com/ doesn't even resolve any more so there seems no point in keeping this open.

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