by Vadim Tkachenko | May 14, 2014 | Benchmarks, MySQL, Percona Software
We just released, as an open source release, our new percona-agent the agent to work with Percona Cloud Tools. This agent is written in Go. There will be more posts about percona-agent, but in the meantime I want to dedicate this one to Go, Go with MySQL and some...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Feb 4, 2014 | Benchmarks, MySQL, Percona Software
We just published results with improvements in Thread Pool in Percona Server: Percona Server: Thread Pool Improvements for Transactional Workloads Percona Server: Improve Scalability with Thread Pool What I am happy to see is that Percona Server is able to handle a...
by Ernie Souhrada | Nov 18, 2013 | Benchmarks, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Security
This is part two on a two-part series on the performance implications of in-flight data encryption with MySQL. In the first part, I focused specifically on the impact of using MySQL’s built-in SSL support with some rather surprising results. Certainly it was...
by Ernie Souhrada | Oct 10, 2013 | Benchmarks, Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL
NOTE: This is part 1 of what will be a two-part series on the performance implications of using in-flight data encryption. Some of you may recall my security webinar from back in mid-August; one of the follow-up questions that I was asked was about the performance...
by Ernie Souhrada | May 17, 2013 | Benchmarks, Hardware and Storage, MySQL
This is the second part in a two-part series comparing Virident’s vCache to FlashCache. The first part was focused on usability and feature comparison; in this post, we’ll look at some sysbench test results. Disclosure: The research and testing conducted...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Apr 16, 2013 | Benchmarks, Hardware and Storage, MySQL
The Micron P320h SSD is an SLC-based PCIe solid-state storage device which claims to provide the highest read throughput of any server-grade SSD, and at Micron’s request, I recently took some time to put the card through its paces, and the numbers are indeed...
by Ernie Souhrada | Mar 21, 2013 | Benchmarks
Approximately 11 months ago, Vadim reported some test results from the Virident FlashMax 1400M, an MLC PCIe SSD device. Since that time, Virident has released the FlashMAX II, which promises both increased capacity and increased performance over the previous model. In...
by Ovais Tariq | May 16, 2012 | Benchmarks, Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
I have been working for a customer benchmarking insert performance on Amazon EC2, and I have some interesting results that I wanted to share. I used a nice and effective tool iiBench which has been developed by Tokutek. Though the “1 billion row insert...
by Ovais Tariq | Mar 12, 2012 | Benchmarks, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
I have been working with Peter in preparation for the talk comparing the optimizer enhancements in MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 5.5. We are taking a look at and benchmarking optimizer enhancements one by one. So in the same way this blog post is aimed at a new optimizer...
by Morgan Tocker | Oct 26, 2010 | Benchmarks, Insight for Developers, MySQL
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about Sharing an auto_increment value across multiple MySQL tables. In the comments, a few people wrote in to suggest alternative ways of implementing this. I just got around to benchmarking those alternatives today across two large...
by Peter Zaitsev | May 27, 2006 | Benchmarks
Sun has now published SpecJAppServer2004 benchmark results with MySQL. The results are pretty good as we can see and it is also good to know some room for tuning remains so we can hope getting even better results this time. Jenny Chen published good MySQL Tuning...
