[mason55]

> I wonder why 10gen hasn't made any official comment on the work the folks at Tokutek are doing to enhance Mongodb's features.

Why would they comment? What would they say? Toku is basically trying to steal MongoDB's customers, they even use the same basic pricing model.

[nevi-me]

For me the really irritating thing is the observation that when I want to enjoy flame wars about Mongo, I seem to see a lot of their 'try TokuMX' everywhere. Last time I checked they are on the 2.2 codebase, unless that recently changed. Mongo 2.4 was a significant upgrade, and assuming I'm correct above, I feel like the Tokutek team disregard that. I get that it's good marketing to suggest an alternative, but going along criticising that which you've built upon doesn't go well with me.

[leif]

Last time you checked was a while ago, it's 2.4 compatible now (except geo and full-text) and has been since TokuMX 1.3.

We generally don't criticize indiscriminately. MongoDB has a lot of good sides and we embrace and extend those, and where it has faults we try to work around or replace them. Our core strength is fast, reliable, compressed storage and MVCC semantics, so obviously we talk about that a lot, but we also understand and acknowledge that a large amount of TokuMX's success, to the degree it has some, is due to the excellent parts of MongoDB.

As an example, I personally am really excited about what MongoDB has done with aggregations in 2.6 (and what seems to be coming down the pipe soon), and I can't wait to merge it in to TokuMX. We all get stronger together.

[wilsonfiifi]

This is a well put together reply, very politically correct. Good to know you're on TokuMX dev team.