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January 13, 2010
InnoDB, InnoDB-plugin vs XtraDB on fast storage
To continue fun with FusionIO cards, I wanted to check how MySQL / InnoDB performs here. For benchmark I took [...]
January 11, 2010
FusionIO 320GB MLC benchmarks
After my previous benchmarks of FusionIO 160GB SLC card, FusionIO team sent me for the tests another card, FusionIO 320GB [...]
January 7, 2010
Star Schema Bechmark: InfoBright, InfiniDB and LucidDB
In my previous rounds with DataWarehouse oriented engines I used single table without joins, and with small (as for DW) [...]
December 10, 2009
Redis Benchmarks on FusionIO (Round 1)
Peter took a look at Redis some time ago; and now, with the impending 1.2 release and a slew of [...]
December 8, 2009
FusionIO – time for benchmarks
I posted about FusionIO couple times RAID vs SSD vs FusionIO and Testing FusionIO: strict_sync is too strict…. The problem [...]
December 5, 2009
How many partitions can you have ?
I had an interesting case recently. The customer dealing with large MySQL data warehouse had the table which was had [...]
December 4, 2009
Effect of adaptive_flushing
I recently had the chance to witness the effects of innodb_adaptive_flushing on the performance of InnoDB Plugin 1.0.5 in the [...]
November 26, 2009
More on table_cache
In my previous post I looked into how large table_cache actually can decrease performance. The “miss” path is getting more [...]
November 16, 2009
table_cache negative scalability
Couple of months ago there was a post by FreshBooks on getting great performance improvements by lowering table_cache variable. So [...]
November 12, 2009
Tokyo Tyrant -The Extras Part III : Write Bottleneck
This is part 3 of my Tyrant extra’s, part 1 focused on durability, part 2 focused on the perceived performance [...]
November 11, 2009
Tokyo Tyrant – The Extras Part II : The Performance Wall
Continuing my look at Tokyo Tyrant/Cabinet and addressing some of the concerns I have seen people have brought up this [...]
November 10, 2009
Tokyo Tyrant – The Extras Part I : Is it Durable?
You know how in addition to the main movie you have extras on the DVD. Extra commentary, bloopers, extra scenes, [...]
November 5, 2009
Air traffic queries in MyISAM and Tokutek (TokuDB)
This is next post in series Analyzing air traffic performance with InfoBright and MonetDB Air traffic queries in LucidDB Air [...]
November 2, 2009
Air traffic queries in InfiniDB: early alpha
As Calpont announced availability of InfiniDB I surely couldn’t miss a chance to compare it with previously tested databases in [...]
October 26, 2009
Air traffic queries in LucidDB
After my first post Analyzing air traffic performance with InfoBright and MonetDB where I was not able to finish task [...]
October 19, 2009
MySQL-Memcached or NOSQL Tokyo Tyrant – part 3
This is part 3 of our series. In part 1 we talked about boosting performance with memcached on top of [...]
October 16, 2009
MySQL-Memcached or NOSQL Tokyo Tyrant – part 2
Part 1 of our series set-up our “test” application and looked at boosting performance of the application by buffer MySQL [...]
October 15, 2009
MySQL-Memcached or NOSQL Tokyo Tyrant – part 1
All to often people force themselves into using a database like MySQL with no thought into whether if its the [...]
October 14, 2009
Tuning for heavy writing workloads
For the my previous post, there was comment to suggest to test db_STRESS benchmark on XtraDB by Dimitri. And I [...]
October 2, 2009
Analyzing air traffic performance with InfoBright and MonetDB
Accidentally me and Baron played with InfoBright (see https://www.percona.com/blog/2009/09/29/quick-comparison-of-myisam-infobright-and-monetdb/) this week. And following Baron’s example I also run the same [...]