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October 10, 2013
SSL Performance Overhead in MySQL
NOTE: This is part 1 of what will be a two-part series on the performance implications of using in-flight data [...]
October 8, 2013
A closer look at Percona Server 5.6
Yesterday we announced the GA release of Percona Server 5.6, the latest release of our enhanced, drop-in replacement for MySQL. [...]
September 18, 2013
Percona Live London 2013: an insider’s view of the schedule
With the close of call for papers earlier this month, the Percona Live London conference committee was in full swing this [...]
September 5, 2013
TokuDB vs InnoDB in timeseries INSERT benchmark
This post is a continuation of my research of TokuDB’s storage engine to understand if it is suitable for timeseries [...]
August 29, 2013
Considering TokuDB as an engine for timeseries data
I am working on a customer’s system where the requirement is to store a lot of timeseries data from different [...]
August 28, 2013
Testing Intel, Samsung & SanDisk SATA SSD
While working on the service architecture for one of our projects, I considered several SATA SSD options as the possible [...]
July 31, 2013
InnoDB Full-text Search in MySQL 5.6: Part 3, Performance
This is part 3 of a 3 part series covering the new InnoDB full-text search features in MySQL 5.6. To [...]
July 3, 2013
When it’s faster to use SQL in MySQL NDB Cluster over memcache API
Memcache access for MySQL Cluster (or NDBCluster) provides faster access to the data because it avoids the SQL parsing overhead [...]
July 1, 2013
tpcc-mysql: Simple usage steps and how to build graphs with gnuplot
Lots of times we could see different benchmarks performed by tpcc-mysql. So today I want to tell you about how [...]
May 22, 2013
MySQL and the SSB – Part 2 – MyISAM vs InnoDB low concurrency
This blog post is part two in what is now a continuing series on the Star Schema Benchmark. In my previous [...]
May 17, 2013
Virident vCache vs. FlashCache: Part 2
This is the second part in a two-part series comparing Virident’s vCache to FlashCache. The first part was focused on [...]
May 16, 2013
Virident vCache vs. FlashCache: Part 1
(This is part one of a two part series) Over the past few weeks I have been looking at a [...]
May 8, 2013
MySQL and Percona Server in LinkBench benchmark
Around month ago Facebook has announced the Linkbench benchmark that models the social graph OLTP workload. Sources, along with a [...]
May 7, 2013
Benchmarking Percona Server TokuDB vs InnoDB
After compiling Percona Server with TokuDB, of course I wanted to compare InnoDB performance vs TokuDB. I have a particular [...]
April 26, 2013
More on MySQL transaction descriptors optimization
Since my first post on MySQL transaction descriptors optimization introduced in Percona Server 5.5.30-30.2 and a followup by Dimitri Kravchuk, [...]
April 16, 2013
Testing the Micron P320h
The Micron P320h SSD is an SLC-based PCIe solid-state storage device which claims to provide the highest read throughput of [...]
April 15, 2013
Memory allocators: MySQL performance improvements in Percona Server 5.5.30-30.2
In addition to the problem with trx_list scan we discussed in Friday’s post, there is another issue in InnoDB transaction [...]
April 12, 2013
trx descriptors: MySQL performance improvements in Percona Server 5.5.30-30.2
One major problem in terms of MySQL performance that still stands in the way of InnoDB scalability is the trx_list [...]
March 27, 2013
Why MySQL Performance at Low Concurrency is Important
A few weeks ago I wrote about “MySQL Performance at High Concurrency” and why it is important, which was followed [...]
March 21, 2013
Testing the Virident FlashMAX II
Approximately 11 months ago, Vadim reported some test results from the Virident FlashMax 1400M, an MLC PCIe SSD device. Since [...]