Also having to dump/restore to go from 10.2 to 10.3 tables is a PITA. Remember how awful it was to migrate all those BDB tables to InnoDB? Or even just how frustrating it was when UTF8_GENERAL_CI changed the umlaut?
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 9:43 AM, Reinis Rozitis <r...@roze.lv> wrote: > The main reason to drop TokuDB would be it being redundant. If MyRocks >> and TokuDB would cover, basically, the same use case and MyRocks >> would've done it better - then nobody would need TokuDB, right? >> > > But you're saying that they have different use cases and even on the >> common use case, MyRocks is not necessarily better - do I understand you >> correctly? In that case we should be interesed in keeping TokuDB in >> MariaDB Server, not removing it. >> > > It's true that in general it shouldn't matter for the end-user what the > storage engine is called as far it has more or less the same (needed) > features and delivers comparable performance (in the end it would be great > if we could have only one for all purposes and workloads :)). > > But my concern is that at least currently publicly available Facebook > version has several limitations ( https://github.com/facebook/my > sql-5.6/wiki/MyRocks-limitations ) which (for me) would be problematic > (for example no partitions, no online ddl and only row based replication > (the locking is also interesting)) and seems strange since I would guess > people (would) use theese engines mainly for compressing large tables (at > least in some cases I can't even go back to compressed Innodb by how much > the database size would inflate). > > Myself have tested Rocks only as mongo-rocks in MongoDB environment but > for me as a user the features the engine has for Mysql seem subpar. > > Obviously there are bunch of issues with Toku and in the future RocksDB > might get all the options people need - wanted to just share my opinion. > > rr > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss > Post to : maria-discuss@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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