Evidenzia Polices Copyright Violations With Tokutek Database Engine

SANTA CLARA, CA--(Marketwire - Feb 27, 2012) - Strata 2012 Conference -- Tokutek, the leading innovator in high-performance and agile database storage engines, today announced that Evidenzia GmbH & Co. KG, a leader in online copyright surveillance, has upgraded to TokuDB® v5.2 in order to reduce select and insert times and rein in escalating disk I/O due to growing data volumes.

A finalist in the Strata 2012 Startup Showcase, Tokutek will be demonstrating its TokuDB storage engine for MySQL on Wednesday, Feb. 29, at the conference.

Evidenzia's powerful technology helps copyright owners protect their intellectual property by enabling them to trace and document illegal file sharing activities in P2P networks reliably. All data and documentation may then be used as evidence in court. Because Evidenzia ingests a large amount of logging information each hour, the data not only needs to be processed in parallel for instant reporting, but also has to be stored in case it is ever needed as evidence in a legal case. To meet these needs, Evidenzia logs IP addresses while also performing a connect to each peer. In the process, the software fetches data to match it to the copyrighted material for proof of copyright violation.

With TokuDB v5.2, Evidenzia can do all the inserts and selects in parallel and also delete deprecated data out of the same table without the need to use MySQL's "optimize table" function, which would block inserts and selects. In addition, TokuDB's superior compression proved invaluable to keeping the required disk space low.

"We had already enjoyed tremendous gains in select performance, disk space, and I/O efficiency with TokuDB v5.0," noted Bastian Axter, Director of Operations at Evidenzia. "Once we moved TokuDB v5.2 into production, we saw these advantages extend to a wider set of use cases, notably workloads with concurrent inserts, selects, and deletes. This enabled us to make TokuDB v5.2 our storage engine of choice across our entire MySQL deployment. Overall, by choosing TokuDB, we not only saved 70% in our storage requirements, but also dramatically cut the time to complete select statements, which went from executing in over an hour to just minutes."

About TokuDB 5.2
TokuDB v5.2 is a highly scalable, zero maintenance downtime, MySQL Storage Engine offering on-the-fly schema modification and powerful indexing-based query acceleration. Offering performance enhancements over previous releases, especially for multi-client scale up and point queries, TokuDB v5.2 extends the cases where ALTER TABLE is non-blocking to include Hot Column Rename. The newest release maintains all of TokuDB's established advantages, including: fast trickle load, fast bulk load, fast range queries through clustering indexes, hot schema changes, great compression, no index fragmentation, and full MySQL compatibility for ease of installation. See our benchmark page for details.

• Download a free trial of TokuDB v5.2
• Read the full Evidenzia case study here.
• Read TokuView blog entry, "Announcing TokuDB v5.2: Improved Multi-Client Scaling and Faster Queries" to learn more about TokuDB v5.2.

About Tokutek Inc.
Tokutek, Inc. is the leading innovator in high-performance and agile database storage engines. TokuDB, our flagship product, is a highly scalable, zero maintenance downtime, MySQL Storage Engine that delivers indexing-based query acceleration and enables hot schema modifications. TokuDB is a "drop-in" storage engine requiring no changes to MySQL applications or code and is fully ACID and MVCC compliant. The company is headquartered in Lexington, MA and has offices in New York, NY. For more information, visit tokutek.com.

About MySQL
MySQL is the most popular open source database software in the world. Many of the world's largest and fastest-growing organizations use MySQL to save time and money powering their high-volume Web sites, critical business systems, communications networks, and commercial software. MySQL is owned by Oracle, the world's largest business software company.