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Have you heard about the USE Method (Utilization – Saturation – Errors), RED (Rate – Errors – Duration) or Golden Signals (Latency – Traffic – Errors – Saturations)?
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Sysbench has long been established as the de facto standard when it comes to benchmarking MySQL performance. Percona relies on it daily, and even Oracle uses it when blogging about new features in MySQL 8. Sysbench comes with several pre-defined benchmarking tests. These tests are written in an easy-to-understand scripting language called Lua. Some […]
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MySQL 8.0.15 performs worse in sysbench oltp_read_write than MySQL 5.7.25
Initially I was testing group replication performance and was puzzled why MySQL 8.0.15 performs consistently worse than MySQL 5.7.25.
It appears that a single server instance is affected by a performance degradation.
My testing setup
Hardware details:
Bare metal server provided by packet.net, instance size: c2.medium.x86
24 Physical Cores @ […]
In this article I’m going to talk about partial and sparse indexes in MongoDB® and Percona Server for MongoDB®. I’ll show you how to use them, and look at cases where they can be helpful. Prior to discussing these indexes in MongoDB in detail, though, let’s talk about an issue on a relational database like […]
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Over the last year, I have been pursuing a part time hobby project exploring ways to squeeze as much data as possible in MySQL. As you will see, there are quite a few different ways. Of course things like compression ratio matters a lot but, other items like performance of inserts, selects and updates, […]
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