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April 27, 2010
Level 2 Flash cache is there
As I mentioned in my talk An Overview of Flash Storage for Databases I see in the near and middle [...]
April 26, 2010
XtraDB / InnoDB internals in drawing
I did some drawing exercise and put XtraDB / InnoDB internals in Visio diagram: The XtraDB differences and main parameters [...]
April 24, 2010
How fast is FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK?
A week or so ago at the MySQL conference, I visited one of the backup vendors in the Expo Hall. [...]
April 21, 2010
MySQL 5.5.4 in tpcc-like workload
MySQL-5.5.4 ® is the great release with performance improvements, let’s see how it performs in tpcc-like workload. The full details [...]
April 15, 2010
TokuDB Indexes are NOT in-memory (and not hash tables either)
Another plug for Bradley’s talk Thursday morning at the MySQL User’s conference. Spending the day talking to DBA’s and other [...]
April 14, 2010
Is there a performance difference between JOIN and WHERE?
I’ve heard this question a lot, but never thought to blog about the answer. “Is there a performance difference between [...]
April 14, 2010
Forgot the Titles for Tokutek’s MySQL UC Talks
I forgot to include the titles for my talks. The ignite talk Wednesday at 7pm is “What Is a Performance [...]
April 14, 2010
Slides from my Sphinx talk at RIT++ 2010
While the majority of Percona gang travelled to California for the MySQL event of the year, I headed in the [...]
April 14, 2010
Tokutek MySQL UC Talks
I (Bradley C. Kuszmaul) am presenting two talks at the MySQL User Conference. The first talk is a 5-minute talk [...]
April 13, 2010
Percona Server version 10
Dear Community, Today we are pleased to announce the release 10 of Percona Server with XtraDB storage engine. Since the [...]
April 13, 2010
xtrabackup-1.2
Dear Community, The notice is hereby given that next version 1.2 of XtraBackup software is released. The list of changes [...]
April 11, 2010
How to know if you’re updating Slave you should not ?
When replication runs out of sync first question you often ask is if someone could be writing to the slave. [...]
April 8, 2010
Customer Success Story: KAYAK uses ad hoc indexing
Fast insertion – what Tokutek excels at – isn’t only important for handling high data rates. It also enables a [...]
April 8, 2010
Rebuilding MySQL with same options
Every so often I am working on the system with custom compiled MySQL. How to upgrade to the new MySQL [...]
April 8, 2010
Announcing New Training Venues for May-August
We’ve just launched training for London, Seattle, San Francisco, Atlanta, Orlando, Columbus, Dallas, San Diego, Denver, Minneapolis, New York City, [...]
April 8, 2010
Should I buy a Fast SSD or more memory?
While a scale-out solution has traditionally been popular for MySQL, it’s interesting to see what room we now have to [...]
April 7, 2010
See us at the O’Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo
At this year’s O’Reilly MySQL Conference we will be showing the latest version of our MySQL storage engine, TokuDB v3.1. [...]
April 2, 2010
fadvise – may be not what you expect
I often hear suggestion to use [crayon-68d81fc0276e4805577820/] system call to avoid caching in OS cache. We recently made patch for [...]
March 30, 2010
Can we get faster expression handling in MySQL
Andrew from Sphinx continues to work on improving SQL (or SphinxQL) support and now he published benchmarks comparing arithmetic expression [...]
March 26, 2010
How well do your tables fit in buffer pool
In XtraDB we have the table INNODB_BUFFER_POOL_PAGES_INDEX which shows which pages belong to which indexes in which tables. Using thing [...]