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So, TokuMX is web scale?

In all seriousness, this looks super cool, but I'm easily fooled by benchmarks and I don't have any projects right now that really push MongoDB that hard, so it doesn't impact me other than giving us a potentially faster Mongo, which is cool.

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I work for Tokutek. In addition to performance improvements and compression, another cool thing about TokuMX: it's fully transactional. We hope this makes development of applications simpler.

That's awesome! I hope you didn't mind the joke too much. I really do use/love Mongo and I appreciate anyone who contributes to it.

could you clarify this statement. mongodb native is consistent and atomic wrt to single documents. Are you saying that tokumx does something additional wrt to transactions (which also implies client api changes)?

TokuMX offers multi-document transactional semantics without application changes (snapshot reads), as well as protocol support for multi-statement (read-modify-write style) transactions, within a single shard. We are still designing how we want to present transactions in a sharded cluster.

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