by Hrvoje Matijakovic | May 16, 2012 | MySQL
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.23-25.3 on May 16, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.23, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.23-25.3 is now the current...
by Tokutek | May 14, 2012 | MySQL
We are excited to have Gerry Narvaja start today at Tokutek! Gerry has spent more than 25 years in the software industry, most of them working with databases for different kinds of applications, from embedded to large-scale web products. Gerry worked first at MySQL,...
by Vadim Tkachenko | May 14, 2012 | MySQL, Percona Software
Our previous GA release of Percona XtraDB Cluster caused a lot of interest and feedback. I am happy to announce next version Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.23, which comes with bug fixes and improvements. List of changes: Fixes merged from upstream (Codership-mysql)...
by Leif.Walsh | May 10, 2012 | MySQL
In April, I got to give a talk at Percona Live, about why The Right Read Optimization is Actually Write Optimization. It was my first industry talk, so I was delighted when someone in the audience said “I feel like I just earned a college credit.” Box...
by Vadim Tkachenko | May 10, 2012 | Benchmarks, Hardware and Storage, MySQL
I was lucky enough to get my hands on new Fusion-io ioDrive2 Duo card. So I decided to run the same series of tests I did for other Flash devices. This is ioDrive2 Duo 2.4TB card and it is visible to OS as two devices (1.2TB each), which can be connected together via...
by Vadim Tkachenko | May 9, 2012 | Benchmarks, MySQL
Sysbench has three distribution for random numbers: uniform, special and gaussian. I mostly use uniform and special, and I feel that both do not fully reflect my needs when I run benchmarks. Uniform is stupidly simple: for a table with 1 mln rows, each row gets equal...
by Baron Schwartz | May 8, 2012 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Events
The recording and slides for my webinar on zero-downtime schema changes with MySQL are available now. Don’t miss Vadim’s webinar tomorrow!
by Vadim Tkachenko | May 8, 2012 | MySQL
Just as a reminder – tomorrow, May-9, 2012, at 11am PDT I will be giving a free webinar “MySQL and SSD”. This is the same talk I gave on Percona Live MySQL Conference, so if you were there – you probably will find nothing new. Otherwise, you...
by Vadim Tkachenko | May 8, 2012 | MySQL, Percona Events
You might have heard that Oracle made the decision not to support MySQL for IBM i any longer. This is certainly understandable. However, there are still users who want to continue running IBM i and MySQL. That’s why we’re happy to announce that we have...
by Vadim Tkachenko | May 7, 2012 | Benchmarks, Hardware and Storage, MySQL
In my previous post with results for Fusion-io ioDrive we saw some instability in results, I was pointed that it may be fixed in new drivers VSL 3.1.1. I am not sure if this driver is available for everyone – if you are interested, please contact your Fusion-io...
by Peter Zaitsev | May 6, 2012 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
One of the very frequent cases with performance problems with MySQL is what they happen every so often or certain times. Investigating them we find out what the cause is some batch jobs, reports and other non response time critical activities are overloading the...
by Vadim Tkachenko | May 4, 2012 | Benchmarks, Hardware and Storage, MySQL
I still continue to run benchmarks of different SSD cards. This time I show numbers for Virident FlashMAX 1400. This is a MLC PCIe SSD device. There are couple notes on these results. First, this time I use a different server. For this benchmark it is Cisco UCS C250,...
by Vadim Tkachenko | May 3, 2012 | Benchmarks, Hardware and Storage, MySQL
Following my series of posts on testing different SSD, in my last post I mentioned that SATA SSD performance is getting closer to PCIe cards. It really makes sense to test it under MySQL workload, but before getting to that, let me review the same workload on...
by Baron Schwartz | May 3, 2012 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
The recording of yesterday’s webinar, as well as a PDF of my slide deck, is now available. You can watch the recording and get the slides here. I got a lot of questions, and did not have enough time to answer all of them, so let me try to answer some of the...
by Tokutek | May 2, 2012 | MySQL
Tokutek’s ability to improve database performance brings an entirely new value proposition to MySQL.
by Tokutek | May 2, 2012 | MySQL
The ability to change schemas and indexes on the fly and no need to repair fragmented indexes has led to a simplification of our environment and reduced maintenance windows
by Tokutek | May 2, 2012 | MySQL
MySQL storage engine provider joins forces with leading database consultants to deliver support for growing number of MySQL and MariaDB customers Lexington, MA – (May 2, 2012) – Tokutek, the leader in high-performance and agile database storage engines, today...
by Vadim Tkachenko | May 1, 2012 | Benchmarks, Hardware and Storage, MySQL
Following my previous benchmarks of SATA SSD cards I got Intel SSD 520 240GB into my hands. In this post I show the results of raw IO performance of this card. The benchmark methodology I described in previous posts, so let me jump directly to results. First case is...
by Martin.FarachColton | Apr 30, 2012 | MySQL
TokuDB v6.0 is full of great improvements, like getting rid of slave lag, better compression, improved checkpointing, and support for XA. I’m happy to announce that TokuDB v6.0 is now generally available and can be downloaded here. Sysbench Performance I wanted...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Apr 26, 2012 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.1.62-13.3 on April 25, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.1.62, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.1.62-13.3 is now the current...
