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July 13, 2018
On MySQL and Intel Optane performance
Recently, Dimitri published the results of measuring MySQL 8.0 on Intel Optane storage device. In this blog post, I wanted to [...]
July 12, 2018
Why MySQL Stored Procedures, Functions and Triggers Are Bad For Performance
MySQL stored procedures, functions and triggers, are tempting constructs for application developers. However, as I discovered, there can be an [...]
July 11, 2018
AMD EPYC Performance Testing… or Don’t get on the wrong side of SystemD
Ever since AMD released their EPYC CPU for servers I wanted to test it, but I did not have the [...]
June 27, 2018
Scaling PostgreSQL with PgBouncer: You May Need a Connection Pooler
As PostgreSQL based applications scale, the need to implement connection pooling can become apparent sooner than you might expect. Since [...]
June 15, 2018
Tuning PostgreSQL for sysbench-tpcc
Percona has a long tradition of performance investigation and benchmarking. Peter Zaitsev, CEO and Vadim Tkachenko, CTO, led their crew [...]
June 5, 2018
Call for Questions: Webinar with MySQL Benchmarking Experts
If you attended my latest Troubleshooting MySQL Concurrency Issues with Load Testing Tools webinar you learned how I exploit benchmarking [...]
June 4, 2018
Troubleshooting MySQL Concurrency Issues with Load Testing Tools Webinar: Q & A
In this blog, I will provide answers to the Q & A for the Troubleshooting MySQL Concurrency Issues with Load [...]
May 4, 2018
How Binary Logs Affect MySQL 8.0 Performance
As part of my benchmarks of binary logs, I’ve decided to check how the recently released MySQL 8.0 performance is [...]
May 4, 2018
How Binary Logs (and Filesystems) Affect MySQL Performance
I want to take a closer look at MySQL performance with binary logs enabled on different filesystems, especially as MySQL [...]
April 30, 2018
MyRocks Performance
In this blog post, I’ll look at MyRocks performance through some benchmark testing. As the MyRocks storage engine (based on [...]
April 24, 2018
Percona Live 2018 Keynotes, Day One
Welcome to Percona Live 2018 keynotes, day one! Percona Live 2018 is up and running! We call this day one, [...]
April 19, 2018
Sysbench-tpcc Supports PostgreSQL (No, Really This Time)
This time, we really mean it when we say sysbench-tpcc supports PostgreSQL. When I initially announced sysbench-tpcc, I mentioned it [...]
March 9, 2018
Sneak Peek at Proxytop Utility
In this blog post, I’ll be looking at a new tool Proxytop for managing MySQL topologies using ProxySQL. Proxytop is [...]
March 5, 2018
TPCC-Like Workload for Sysbench 1.0
In this post I’ll look at some of our recent work for benchmark enthusiasts: a TPCC-like workload for Sysbench (version 1.0 [...]
December 29, 2017
Percona Database Performance Blog Year in Review: Top Blog Posts
Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2017. The closing of a year [...]
October 17, 2017
Webinar Wednesday, October 18, 2017: How to Scale with MongoDB
Join Percona’s Senior Technical Services Engineer Adamo Tonete as he presents How To Scale with MongoDB on Wednesday, October 18, [...]
September 21, 2017
Percona Live Europe Featured Talks: Modern sysbench – Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks with Alexey Kopytov
Welcome to another post in our series of interview blogs for the upcoming Percona Live Europe 2017 in Dublin. This [...]
August 28, 2017
Looking at Disk Utilization and Saturation
In this blog post, I will look at disk utilization and saturation. In my previous blog post, I wrote about [...]
July 12, 2017
Gh-ost benchmark against pt-online-schema-change performance
In this blog post, I will run a gh-ost benchmark against the performance of pt-online-schema-change. When gh-ost came out, I was very excited. [...]
July 6, 2017
ClickHouse: One Year!
In this blog, we’ll look at ClickHouse on its one year anniversary. It’s been a year already since the Yandex [...]