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June 17, 2011
Speeding Up TPCC Table Loads by 8x with TokuDB v5.0
Percona’s TPCC for MySQL toolset allows one to measure the query performance for an OLTP workload on various MySQL storage [...]
June 13, 2011
Product to try: MySQL/MariaDB-Galera 0.8
I wrote about Galera about 1.5 years ago: State of the art: Galera – synchronous replication for InnoDB. It was [...]
June 9, 2011
Percona Server 5.5.12-20.3 Stable Release
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.12-20.3 on June 9, 2011 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona [...]
June 9, 2011
How to replace a NDB node on EC2
NDB cluster is a very interesting solution in term of high availability since there are no single point of failure. [...]
June 9, 2011
Aligning IO on a hard disk RAID – the Benchmarks
In the first part of this article I have showed how I align IO, now I want to share results [...]
June 9, 2011
Aligning IO on a hard disk RAID – the Theory
Now that flash storage is becoming more popular, IO alignment question keeps popping up more often than it used to [...]
June 8, 2011
Percona Server 5.1.57-12.8 Stable Release
Released on June 8, 2011 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories. Percona Server 5.1.57-12.8 is now the current [...]
June 3, 2011
A recovery trivia or how to recover from a lost ibdata1 file
A few day ago, a customer came to Percona needing to recover data. Basically, while doing a transfer from one [...]
June 2, 2011
We’ll Bring the Pie
Yesterday, Tokutek was invited (thanks to David Hughson, Vice-Consul of the British Consulate) to the Massachusetts State House for a [...]
June 2, 2011
ACTIVE with Locks – Now thats a problem !
One of item I always look at SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS to see if there are any transactions spending very [...]
June 1, 2011
Big Data Needs You
In the 18th century, Benjamin Franklin stated “In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.” In the 21st [...]
May 31, 2011
What’s a good buffer pool read/write ratio?
At Percona Live last week, someone showed me a graph from their Cacti monitoring system, using the templates that I [...]
May 27, 2011
Percona Live, NYC
Yesterday, Percona held Percona Live NYC, which they describe as an “intensive one-day MySQL summit.” They meant it. It was [...]
May 25, 2011
Just hours left until Percona Live sells out!
We’re seeing a spike of last-minute ticket sales for Percona Live New York. Meanwhile, we’re assembling bags and unpacking t-shirts [...]
May 24, 2011
Never Settle for a “B”
OldSQL DBs based on B-trees have some well-known problems and workarounds. TokuDB is a NewSQL storage engines based on Fractal [...]
May 23, 2011
Free Percona Live tickets and Percona Support contract!
Just a couple of announcements for Percona Live: we’re giving away free tickets through Engine Yard, and we’ve arranged our [...]
May 20, 2011
Scaling problems still exist in MySQL 5.5 and Percona Server 5.5
MySQL 5.5 and Percona Server 5.5 do not solve all scalability problems even for read only workloads. Workloads which got [...]
May 20, 2011
InnoDB compression woes
InnoDB compression is getting some traction, and I see quite contradictory opinions. Someone has successful deployments in productions, and someone [...]