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January 3, 2007
InnoDB benchmarks
There was several changes in InnoDB to fix scalabilty problems, so I ran benchmark to check new results and also [...]
January 3, 2007
MySQL/Innodb scalability tests after fix
This is not freshest news ever but I simply have not yet had a time to comment on it. I [...]
November 30, 2006
Interesting MySQL and PostgreSQL Benchmarks
I had found pile of MySQL and PostgreSQL benchmarks on various platforms which I have not seen before. Very interesting [...]
November 12, 2006
Trying Archive Storage Engine
Today I noticed one of server used for web request profiling stats logging is taking about 2GB per day for [...]
August 29, 2006
MySQL wins C’T Database Contest
Today MySQL published the press release with results of Database Contest (results on German available here http://www.mysql.de/ct-dbcontest). Peter and me [...]
August 23, 2006
Watch out for Marketing benchmarks
Whenever I see benchmark results I try to understand if it is technical benchmark – made by people seeking the [...]
August 18, 2006
SysBench – benchmark tool
Sysbench is benchmark developed by Alexey Kopytov (software engineer @ MySQL AB) – http://sysbench.sourceforge.net/ and I want to write a [...]
August 2, 2006
MySQL Prepared Statements
If you care about archiving best performance in your application using MySQL you should learn about prepared statements. These do [...]
July 17, 2006
eWeek tests OpenSource stacks and .NET
Have you seen recent eWeek benchmarks which test OpenSource stacks and compare them to .NET ? Here is what was [...]
July 6, 2006
Sysbench evaluation of iSCSI performance
Partha Dutta posted pretty interesting post about iSCSI vs SCSI performance using SysBench. This is nice to finally see some [...]
June 23, 2006
MySQL Sizing questions
I frequently get questions along the lines of “how many transactions per second MySQL can do” or “how many servers [...]
June 15, 2006
FreeBSD tests
I’m continuing my experiments with different OS and today I tested FreeBSD 6.0 on my box. (more details about box [...]
June 13, 2006
MyISAM concurrent insert
Arjen posted a good note about MyISAM concurrent-insert features, though I should mention concurrent-insert can be cause of scalablity and [...]
June 13, 2006
Quick look at Ubuntu 6.06
There are a lot of talks around new coming Ubuntu 6.06, so I decided to make quick benchmarks. I used [...]
June 8, 2006
Intel Woodcrest vs AMD Opteron for MySQL
AnandTech published Intel Woodcrest preview benchmarks which have some numbers for MySQL as well. From these numbers performance looks great [...]
May 29, 2006
Join performance of MyISAM and Innodb
We had discussion today which involved benchmarks of Join speed for MyISAM and Innodb storage engines for CPU bound workload, [...]
May 27, 2006
MySQL SpecJAppServer2004 results
Sun has now published SpecJAppServer2004 benchmark results with MySQL. The results are pretty good as we can see and it [...]