MongoDB vs TokuMX - Why shouldnt TokuMX be used by default instead of MongoDB

Question

TokuMX is a opensource drop-in replacement for MongoDB. It has features like transactions,compression etc which give it a upper hand compared to MongoDB.. Then why isnt TokuMX the default choice ahead of MongoDB?? Has anyone here used TokuMX in production?

Answer 1

We were evaluating TokuMX some months ago, and the main reason we rejected it was absence of new 2.6 features (it was based on 2.4 mongo engine that time). Additionally, we found that a real compression was pretty far from what is advertised (in our case, of course, your case may be closer to their ideal conditions), and almost no gain in performance. We decided that the game is not worth the candle.