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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 [...]
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 [...]