This blog compares how PostgreSQL and MySQL handle millions of queries per second. Anastasia: Can open source databases cope with millions of queries per second? Many open source advocates would answer “yes.” However, assertions aren’t enough for well-grounded proof. That’s why in this blog post, we share the benchmark testing results from Alexander Korotkov (CEO of […]
Read MoreThis is a time-honored topic, and there’s no shortage of articles on the topic on this blog. I wanted to write a post trying to condense and clarify those posts, as it has taken me a while to really understand this relationship. Some basic facts Most of us know that writing into Innodb updates buffer […]
Read MorePreamble: On performance, workload and scalability: MySQL has always been focused on OLTP workloads. In fact, both Percona Server and MySQL 5.5.7rc have numerous performance improvements which benefit workloads that have high concurrency. Typical OLTP workloads feature numerous clients (perhaps hundreds or thousands) each reading and writing small chunks of data. The recent improvements to […]
Read MoreInnoDB has a mechanism to regulate count of threads working inside InnoDB. innodb_thread_concurrency is variable which set this count, and there are two friendly variables innodb_thread_sleep_delay and innodb_concurrency_tickets. I’ll try to explain how it works. MySQL has pluginable architecture which divides work between mysql common code (parser, optimizer) and storage engine. From storage engine’s point […]
Read MoreAs maybe you know InnoDB uses hard page size 16Kb for datafiles and for buffer pool. However this size can be changed if you need it for your workload. go to file innobase/include/univ.i, lines:
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/* The universal page size of the database */ #define UNIV_PAGE_SIZE (2 * 8192) /* NOTE! Currently, this has to be a power of 2 */ /* The 2-logarithm of UNIV_PAGE_SIZE: */ #define UNIV_PAGE_SIZE_SHIFT 14 |
UNIV_PAGE_SIZE is page size (as you see – default value 16Kb). Possible values for UNIV_PAGE_SIZE is 8K, 16K, 32K, 64K. […]
Read MoreIn MySQL 5.0.19 the meaning of innodb_thread_concurrency variable was changed (yeah, again). Now innodb_thread_concurrency=0 means unlimitied count of concurrent threads inside InnoDB. It’s logical, but there was long way. In MySQL versions below 5.0.8 for unlimited threads you had to set innodb_thread_concurrency over 500 (and default value for innodb_thread_concurrency was 8 ). Starting with MySQL […]
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