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May 22, 2012
btrfs – probably not ready yet
Every time I have a conversation on SSD, someone mentions btrfs filesystem. And usually it is colored as a solution [...]
May 21, 2012
Intel 520 SSD in MySQL sysbench oltp benchmark
In my raw IO benchmark of Intel 520 SSD we saw that the drive does not provide uniform throughput and [...]
May 16, 2012
Benchmarking single-row insert performance on Amazon EC2
I have been working for a customer benchmarking insert performance on Amazon EC2, and I have some interesting results that [...]
May 10, 2012
Testing Fusion-io ioDrive2 Duo
I was lucky enough to get my hands on new Fusion-io ioDrive2 Duo card. So I decided to run the [...]
May 9, 2012
New distribution of random generator for sysbench – Zipf
Sysbench has three distribution for random numbers: uniform, special and gaussian. I mostly use uniform and special, and I feel [...]
May 7, 2012
Testing Fusion-io ioDrive – now with driver 3.1
In my previous post with results for Fusion-io ioDrive we saw some instability in results, I was pointed that it [...]
May 4, 2012
Testing Virident FlashMAX 1400
I still continue to run benchmarks of different SSD cards. This time I show numbers for Virident FlashMAX 1400. This [...]
May 3, 2012
Testing Fusion-io ioDrive
Following my series of posts on testing different SSD, in my last post I mentioned that SATA SSD performance is [...]
May 1, 2012
Testing Intel SSD 520
Following my previous benchmarks of SATA SSD cards I got Intel SSD 520 240GB into my hands. In this post [...]
April 25, 2012
Testing STEC SSD MACH16 200GB SLC
Following my previous benchmark of Samsung 830, today I want to show results for STEC MACH16 SATA card, 200GB size, [...]
April 25, 2012
Testing Samsung SSD SATA 256GB 830 – not all SSD created equal
I personally like PCIe based Flash, but from a pricing point our customers are looking for cheaper alternatives. SATA SSD [...]
April 20, 2012
Benchmarks challenges of XtraDB Cluster
We are running internally a lot of benchmarks on our recently announced Percona XtraDB Cluster, and I am going to [...]
April 4, 2012
Join Optimizations in MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 5.5
This is the third blog post in the series of blog posts leading up to the talk comparing the optimizer [...]
March 21, 2012
Multi Range Read (MRR) in MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 5.5
This is the second blog post in the series of blog posts leading up to the talk comparing the optimizer [...]
March 15, 2012
ext4 vs xfs on SSD
As ext4 is a standard de facto filesystem for many modern Linux system, I am getting a lot of question [...]
March 12, 2012
Index Condition Pushdown in MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 5.5 and its performance impact
I have been working with Peter in preparation for the talk comparing the optimizer enhancements in MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB [...]
February 25, 2012
Introducing new type of benchmark
Traditionally the most benchmarks are focusing on throughput. We all get used to that, and in fact in our benchmarks, [...]
February 23, 2012
Percona Server vs MySQL on Intel 320 SSD
If you are terrified by the stability of the results in MySQL in my previous post, I am going to [...]
February 23, 2012
Some fun with R visualization
My previous post I finished with the graph with unstable results. There I won’t analyze causes, but rather I want [...]
February 22, 2012
Benchmarks of Intel 320 SSD 600GB
I have a chance to test a system with Intel 320 SSD drives (NewRelic provided me with an access to [...]