by Alexander Rubin | Mar 17, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
MariaDB no longer meeting your needs? Migrate to Percona software for MySQL – an open source,production-ready, and enterprise-grade MySQL alternative. Learn More This blog shares some column store database benchmark results, and compares the query performance...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Jan 15, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
This is a followup to my previous post Apache Spark with Air ontime performance data. To recap an interesting point in that post: when using 48 cores with the server, the result was worse than with 12 cores. I wanted to understand the reason is was true, so I started...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Jan 7, 2016 | Benchmarks, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
There is a growing interest in Apache Spark, so I wanted to play with it (especially after Alexander Rubin’s Using Apache Spark post). To start, I used the recently released Apache Spark 1.6.0 for this experiment, and I will play with “Airlines On-Time...
by Alexander Rubin | Oct 7, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
What is Apache Spark? Apache Spark is a cluster computing framework, similar to Apache Hadoop. Wikipedia has a great description of it: Apache Spark is an open source cluster computing framework originally developed in the AMPLab at University of California, Berkeley...
