[spimmy]

Amen brother. You should never base your db decisions on either marketing copy _or_ HN know-it-all complainypants. :)

We actually evaluated TokuMX extensively last year, pre pluggable storage engine. We might have pursued it if they had implemented a compatible oplog at the time, but with a migration path that consisted of dumping and importing production data -- and no way to re-elect the old primary if there were any production problems -- that made it simply a non-starter for me.

They did eventually implement a compatible oplog, which was a good product decision, but the entire TokuMX engineering team recently quit Tokutek en masse so it's still not a great option in my book. Too bad.

[Frozenlock]

"TokuMX engineering team recently quit Tokutek "

I would like to know how it happened. Do you have a link to an article or any other source of info?

[mushi]

They were just acquired, so presumably they may have been running out of money. http://www.percona.com/news-and-events/pressreleases/percona...

[spimmy]

There's no article, sorry, I just happen to know them.