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February 9, 2010
Introducing percona-patches for 5.1
Our patches for 5.0 have attracted significant interest. You can read about SecondLife’s experience here, as well as what Flickr [...]
February 8, 2010
Introducing tpce-like workload for MySQL
We have been using tpcc-mysql benchmark for long time, and there many results published in our blog, but that’s just [...]
January 28, 2010
New OLAP Wikistat benchmark: Introduction and call for feedbacks
I’ve seen my posts on Ontime Air traffic and Star Schema Benchmark got a lot of interest (links: https://www.percona.com/blog/2010/01/07/star-schema-bechmark-infobright-infinidb-and-luciddb/ https://www.percona.com/blog/2009/10/02/analyzing-air-traffic-performance-with-infobright-and-monetdb/ [...]
January 22, 2010
Community Events February-March
February and March as busy months for Community events. There’s MySQL University, Fosdem, the Seattle MySQL Meetup & Confoo.ca.
January 21, 2010
When Should You Store SQL Serialized Data in the Database?
A while back Friendfeed posted a blog post explaining how they changed from storing data in MySQL columns to serializing [...]
January 20, 2010
XtraDB feature: save / restore buffer pool
We recently released XtraDB-9, and while we did not highlight it in announcement, the release-making feature is ability to save [...]
January 18, 2010
Why Swapping is bad for MySQL Performance ?
So you get MySQL or other applications using too much memory on the box or OS behaving funny and using [...]
January 18, 2010
Fast storage: 8 SSD Intel X-25M 80GB benchmarks
I appreciate opportunity Jos van Dongen from Tholis Consulting gave me. He granted me access to servers with 8 attached [...]
January 16, 2010
How expensive is MySQL Replication for the Master
I generally thought about MySQL replication as being quite low overhead on Master, depending on number of Slaves. What kind [...]
January 14, 2010
2010 Percona Training Schedule
After a nice long vacation, it’s time to unveil our destinations for public classes in 2010. We are now offering [...]
January 13, 2010
XtraDB storage engine release 1.0.6-9
Dear Community, As of today Release 9 of XtraDB storage engine is available. The release includes following new features: The [...]
January 13, 2010
Recovery Times – Part Deux
In a follow-up experiment to an earlier post on TokuDB recovery times, I tried to create a better apples-to-apples comparison [...]
January 13, 2010
InnoDB, InnoDB-plugin vs XtraDB on fast storage
To continue fun with FusionIO cards, I wanted to check how MySQL / InnoDB performs here. For benchmark I took [...]
January 11, 2010
FusionIO 320GB MLC benchmarks
After my previous benchmarks of FusionIO 160GB SLC card, FusionIO team sent me for the tests another card, FusionIO 320GB [...]
January 10, 2010
Active Cache for MySQL
One of the problems I have with Memcache is this cache is passive, this means it only stores cached data. [...]
January 9, 2010
Getting around optimizer limitations with an IN() list
There was a discussion on LinkedIn one month ago that caught my eye: Database search by “within x number of [...]
January 7, 2010
Star Schema Bechmark: InfoBright, InfiniDB and LucidDB
In my previous rounds with DataWarehouse oriented engines I used single table without joins, and with small (as for DW) [...]
January 5, 2010
High Insertion Rates into a TokuDB Table with Durable Transactions
We recently made transactions in TokuDB 3.0 durable. We write table changes into a log file so that in the [...]
December 16, 2009
Percona is hiring a consultant
We’re hiring. We are looking for the following qualifications: Expert knowledge of MySQL. Not just “certified” — years of production [...]
December 16, 2009
Recovery Time for TokuDB
Last week Tokutek released version 3.0.0 of TokuDB, adding ACID transactions to its list of features. This post discusses an [...]