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April 2, 2012
Diamond Keynote Panel, BOFs, Lightning Talks, and McAfee and AOL Sponsorships
I’m excited by all of the recent developments surrounding the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo! Our own Baron Schwartz [...]
March 22, 2012
BOFs and Lightning Talks Announced for Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo
The Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo is going to be awesome! Great speakers, an A-list of sponsors, countless opportunities [...]
February 8, 2012
Announcing Drizzle Day, Fri 13th April 2012
Percona is proud to sponsor the 4th Drizzle Day, this year being held on the 13th April, the day after the [...]
November 17, 2011
Sphinx 2.0.2 Beta is released, Sphinx Users Conference in December
My friends at Sphinx Technologies have finally released new beta of Sphinx – Sphinx 2.0.2. It includes about 6 months [...]
August 4, 2011
MySQL performance on EC2/EBS versus RDS
A while ago I started a series of posts showing benchmark results on Amazon EC2 servers with RAID’ed EBS volumes [...]
March 28, 2011
MySQL on Amazon RDS part 2: Determining Peak Throughput
This is a continuation of my series of benchmark posts comparing Amazon RDS to a server running on Amazon EC2. [...]
March 28, 2011
What’s up with HandlerSocket?
I’ve presented at two different venues about HandlerSocket recently and the number one question that always arises is: Why hasn’t [...]
March 15, 2011
MySQL on Amazon RDS part 1: insert performance
Amazon’s Relational Database Service (RDS) is a cloud-hosted MySQL solution. I’ve had some clients hitting performance limitations on standard EC2 [...]
March 14, 2011
Upcoming Webinar on HandlerSocket
On March 29th, I’ll be giving a webinar whose title is “Understanding HandlerSocket – A NoSQL PlugIn For MySQLâ€. This [...]
February 21, 2011
Death match! EBS versus SSD price, performance, and QoS
Is it a good idea to deploy your database into the cloud? It depends. I have seen it work well [...]
February 16, 2011
High availability for MySQL on Amazon EC2 – Part 6 – Publishing server location
This post is the sixth of a series that started here. From the previous posts of this series, we now [...]
February 15, 2011
High availability for MySQL on Amazon EC2 – Part 5 – The instance monitoring script
This post is the fifth of a series that started here. From the previous posts of this series, we now [...]
December 14, 2010
Percona Server now both SQL and NOSQL
Just yesterday we released Percona Server 5.1.52-12.3 which includes HandlerSocket. This is third-party plugin, developed by Akira Higuci, DeNA Co., [...]
October 22, 2010
High availability for MySQL on Amazon EC2 – Part 5 – The instance monitoring script
This post is the fifth of a series that started here. From the previous posts of this series, we now [...]
April 30, 2010
MongoDB Approach to Availability
Another thing I find interesting about MongoDB is its approach to Durability, Data Consistency and Availability. It is very relaxed [...]
April 30, 2010
MongoDB Approach to database synchronization
I went to MongoSF today – quite an event, and I hope to have a chance to write more about [...]
December 10, 2009
Redis Benchmarks on FusionIO (Round 1)
Peter took a look at Redis some time ago; and now, with the impending 1.2 release and a slew of [...]
November 12, 2009
Tokyo Tyrant -The Extras Part III : Write Bottleneck
This is part 3 of my Tyrant extra’s, part 1 focused on durability, part 2 focused on the perceived performance [...]
November 11, 2009
Tokyo Tyrant – The Extras Part II : The Performance Wall
Continuing my look at Tokyo Tyrant/Cabinet and addressing some of the concerns I have seen people have brought up this [...]
November 10, 2009
Tokyo Tyrant – The Extras Part I : Is it Durable?
You know how in addition to the main movie you have extras on the DVD. Extra commentary, bloopers, extra scenes, [...]