right syntax to use near 'TOKUDB_DEFAULT'
Most likely the changes in this JIRA link: https://jira.percona.com/browse/PS-4942

To use a specific row_format or tokudb_row_format do the following instead:

SET SESSION tokudb_row_format=TOKUDB_LZMA;
CREATE TABLE stable1 ( column_a INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, column_b INT NOT NULL) ENGINE=TokuDB;


To check what compression method is used by the table you can run this command from the shell:

tokuftdump --header &lt;tablename&gt;_main*.tokudb