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November 18, 2014
MySQL’s INNODB_METRICS table: How much is the overhead?
Starting with MySQL 5.6 there is an INNODB_METRICS table available in INFORMATION_SCHEMA which contains some additional information than provided in [...]
November 14, 2014
RDS for Aurora unveiled at AWS re:Invent
One of the big announcements at the Amazon Web Services re:Invent 2014 conference this week was the unveiling of Aurora. The [...]
October 29, 2014
MySQL and Openstack deep dive talk at OpenStack Paris Summit (and more!)
I will present a benchmarking talk next week (Nov. 4) at the OpenStack Paris Summit with Jay Pipes from Mirantis. [...]
September 10, 2014
Generating test data from the mysql> prompt
There are a lot of tools that generate test data. Many of them have complex XML scripts or GUI interfaces [...]
September 2, 2014
Using sysbench 0.5 for performing MySQL benchmarks
Given the recent excitement & interest around OpenStack I wanted to make sure I was ready to conduct appropriate evaluations [...]
August 21, 2014
A closer look at the MySQL ibdata1 disk space issue and big tables
A recurring and very common customer issue seen here at the Percona Support team involves how to make the ibdata1 [...]
August 19, 2014
Measuring failover time for ScaleArc load balancer
ScaleArc hired Percona to benchmark failover times for the ScaleArc database traffic management software in different scenarios. We tested failover [...]
August 12, 2014
Benchmarking IBM eXFlash™ DIMM with sysbench fileio
Diablo Technologies engaged Percona to benchmark IBM eXFlash™ DIMMs in various aspects. An eXFlash™ DIMM itself is quite an interesting piece [...]
June 24, 2014
Sysbench Benchmarking of Tesora’s Database Virtualization Engine
Tesora, previously called Parelastic, asked Percona to do a sysbench benchmark evaluation of its Database Virtualization Engine on specific architectures [...]
June 3, 2014
Do not trust vmstat IOwait numbers
I’ve been running a benchmark today on my old test box with conventional hard drives (no raid with BBU) and [...]
May 23, 2014
How to improve InnoDB performance by 55% for write-bound loads
Update: do not do this, this has been proven to corrupt data! During April’s Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo [...]
May 16, 2014
Benchmark: SimpleHTTPServer vs pyclustercheck (twisted implementation)
Github user Adrianlzt provided a python-twisted alternative version of pyclustercheck per discussion on issue 7. Due to sporadic performance issues noted [...]
May 14, 2014
Tips on benchmarking Go + MySQL
We just released, as an open source release, our new percona-agent the agent to work with Percona Cloud Tools. This agent [...]
April 29, 2014
ScaleArc: Real-world application testing with WordPress (benchmark test)
ScaleArc recently hired Percona to perform various tests on its database traffic management product. This post is the outcome of [...]
March 31, 2014
ScaleArc: Benchmarking with sysbench
ScaleArc recently hired Percona to perform various tests on its database traffic management product. This post is the outcome of [...]
February 24, 2014
The MySQL ARCHIVE storage engine – Alternatives
In my previous post I pointed out that the existing ARCHIVE storage engine in MySQL may not be the one that [...]
February 4, 2014
16000 active connections – Percona Server continues to work when others die
We just published results with improvements in Thread Pool in Percona Server: Percona Server: Thread Pool Improvements for Transactional Workloads [...]
January 29, 2014
Percona Server: Thread Pool Improvements for Transactional Workloads
In a previous thread pool post, I mentioned that in Percona Server we used an open source implementation of MariaDB’s [...]
January 23, 2014
Percona Server: Improve Scalability with Percona Thread Pool
By default, for every client connection the MySQL server spawns a separate thread which will process all statements for this [...]
November 18, 2013
MySQL encryption performance, revisited
This is part two on a two-part series on the performance implications of in-flight data encryption with MySQL. In the [...]