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June 22, 2017
ClickHouse in a General Analytical Workload (Based on a Star Schema Benchmark)
In this blog post, we’ll look at how ClickHouse performs in a general analytical workload using the star schema benchmark [...]
May 24, 2017
Percona Software and Roadmap Update with CEO Peter Zaitsev: Q2 2017
This blog post is a summary of the Percona Software and Roadmap Update – Q2 2017 webinar given by Peter Zaitsev on May [...]
May 3, 2017
Storing UUID and Generated Columns
A lot of things have been said about UUID, and storing UUID in an optimized way. Now that we have generated [...]
April 25, 2017
Percona Live 2017 Tutorials Day
Welcome to the first day of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference: Percona Live 2017 tutorials day! While technically [...]
April 10, 2017
ProxySQL Rules: Do I Have Too Many?
In this blog post we are going to take a closer look at ProxySQL rules. How do they work, and [...]
April 5, 2017
Evaluation of PMP Profiling Tools
In this blog post, we’ll look at some of the available PMP profiling tools. While debugging or analyzing issues with [...]
March 22, 2017
The Puzzling Performance of the Samsung 960 Pro
In this blog post, I’ll take a look at the performance of the Samsung 960 Pro SSD NVME. First, I [...]
February 13, 2017
ClickHouse: New Open Source Columnar Database
For this blog post, I’ve decided to try ClickHouse: an open source column-oriented database management system developed by Yandex (it currently powers Yandex.Metrica, [...]
January 6, 2017
PostgreSQL and MySQL: Millions of Queries per Second
This blog compares how PostgreSQL and MySQL handle millions of queries per second. Anastasia: Can open source databases cope with millions [...]
December 2, 2016
Make MySQL 8.0 Better Through Better Benchmarking
This blog post discusses how better MySQL 8.0 benchmarks can improve MySQL in general. Like many in MySQL community, I’m [...]
August 22, 2016
Query rewrite plugin: scalability fix in MySQL 5.7.14
In this post, we’ll look at a scalability fix for issues the query rewrite plugin had on performance. Several months ago, [...]
August 11, 2016
Percona Memory Engine for MongoDB
This post discusses Percona Server for MongoDB’s new in-memory storage engine, Percona Memory Engine for MongoDB. Percona Server for MongoDB introduced [...]
August 10, 2016
Small innodb_page_size as a performance boost for SSD
In this blog post, we’ll discuss how a small innodb_page_size can create a performance boost for SSD. In my previous [...]
August 9, 2016
tpcc-mysql benchmark tool: less random with multi-schema support
In this blog post, I’ll discuss changes I’ve made to the [crayon-68bb8b12680b5433158553-i/] benchmark tool. These changes make it less random and support [...]
July 26, 2016
Testing Samsung storage in tpcc-mysql benchmark of Percona Server
This blog post will detail the results of Samsung storage in [crayon-68bb8b1268ca6078243007-i/] benchmark using Percona Server. I had an opportunity to [...]
May 13, 2016
Benchmark MongoDB with sysbench
In this blog post, we’ll discuss how to benchmark MongoDB with sysbench. In an earlier post, I mentioned our use [...]
April 13, 2016
Evaluating Database Compression Methods: Update
This blog post is an update to our last post discussing database compression methods, and how they stack up against [...]
March 17, 2016
Percona Server 5.7 performance improvements
In this blog post, we’ll be discussing Percona Server 5.7 performance improvements. Starting from the Percona Server 5.6 release, we’ve [...]
February 1, 2016
InnoDB and TokuDB on AWS
In a recent post, Vadim compared the performance of Amazon Aurora and Percona Server on AWS. This time, I am comparing [...]
January 7, 2016
Apache Spark with Air ontime performance data
There is a growing interest in Apache Spark, so I wanted to play with it (especially after Alexander Rubin’s Using Apache Spark post). To start, [...]