Installing MariaDB and TokuDB in Ubuntu Trusty
Background In this post I would tell a story about installing MariaDB in Ubuntu Trusty, and the process that I went through to enable TokuDB engine. I need to experiment using the engine as an alternative to the Archive engine, to store compressed table rows. It have better performance than InnoDB tables (row_format=compressed), and it was recommended in some blog posts (this post and this ) Packages for Ubuntu Trusty In order to be able to use TokuDB, I seek the documentation and find out that Ubuntu version 12.10 and newer for 64-bit platform requires mariadb-tokudb-engine-5.5 package. Despite the existence of mariadb-5.5 packages, I found no package containing tokudb keyword in the official Ubuntu Trusty repositories. The mariadb 5.5 server package also doesn't contain ha_tokudb.so (see file list ). The solution is to use the repository from this online wizard . Installing mariadb-server-10.1, we have many storage engines availa...