by Yves Trudeau | May 24, 2013 | Hardware and Storage, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
I am currently working with a large customer and I am involved with servers located in two data centers, one with Solaris servers and the other one with Linux servers. The Solaris side is cleverly setup using zones and ZFS and this provides a very low virtualization...
by Justin Swanhart | May 22, 2013 | Benchmarks, MySQL
This blog post is part two in what is now a continuing series on the Star Schema Benchmark. In my previous blog post I compared MySQL 5.5.30 to MySQL 5.6.10, both with default settings using only the InnoDB storage engine. In my testing I discovered that...
by Bill Karwin | May 20, 2013 | MySQL, Webinars
Next Friday, May 31 at 10 a.m. Pacific, I’ll present Percona’s next webinar, “SQL Query Patterns, Optimized.” Based on my experiences solving tough SQL problems for Percona training and consulting, I’ll classify several common types of...
by Tim.Callaghan | May 15, 2013 | MySQL
I finally posted a copy of the slides from my Percona Live presentation, “Creating a Benchmarking Infrastructure that Just Works”. The PDF is available via this link. The content comes from my personal experiences over many years benchmarking and testing...
by Tim.Callaghan | May 13, 2013 | MySQL
At tomorrow’s Effective MySQL Meetup, I’ll be presenting “Fractal Tree Indexes : Theory and Practice (MySQL and MongoDB).” The meetup is at 6:30pm Tuesday, May 14, 2013, and will be held at Alley NYC in New York City. I’ll give an overview on how Fractal...
by Vadim Tkachenko | May 10, 2013 | MySQL
I was reviewing the Percona Live sponsors list the other day and pondering the potential success stories associated with this product or that one…. and as I was preparing to put more thought on the topic, a PlanetMySQL post caught my eye. It was penned by Mike...
by Alexey Stroganov | May 8, 2013 | Benchmarks, MySQL
Around month ago Facebook has announced the Linkbench benchmark that models the social graph OLTP workload. Sources, along with a very nice description of how to setup and run this benchmark, can be found here. We decided to run this benchmark for MySQL Server 5.5.30,...
by Tokutek | May 2, 2013 | MySQL
Last week I had to present a tutorial at Percona Live 2013, a presentation at SkySQL’s MySQL & Cloud Database Solution Day and last but not least, a presentation on a Saturday morning at Linuxfest Northwest. It wasn’t easy, but giving the presentations after...
by Tokutek | Apr 29, 2013 | MySQL
With this version, the source code is now freely available under the GPL License v2. For more details, see our blog here. Open source pioneer Mozilla has been using TokuDB to manage its MySQL-driven Datazilla Data cluster, an open-source system for managing and...
by Leif.Walsh | Apr 26, 2013 | MySQL
Since we had the pleasure to announce that TokuDB is open source on Monday, it’s been a thrilling ride. With several members of the team out west all week, back on the east coast we’ve been seeing quite a lot of questions, suggestions, and exciting results. Here are...
by Tokutek | Apr 25, 2013 | MySQL
Yesterday we posted the photos and lyrics. Now we’ve got the YouTube video (click here)! And for those who want some behind the scenes photos, see here and here. (courtesy of @seattlegaucho).
by Tokutek | Apr 25, 2013 | MySQL
We wanted to thank everyone for naming Tokutek the Corporate Contributor of the Year 2013 for ongoing contribution to the MySQL community. The MySQL Community Awards are given annually to the people and companies that support the MySQL ecosystem. The MySQL Community...
by Tokutek | Apr 25, 2013 | MySQL
Thanks to all of those who came to the lightning talks this evening. A special thanks to Erin Grace O’Malley O’Neill for the great performance. Thanks also to @NuoDB and @geobdz (whose photo is below) for tweets. Stay tuned for the video as well…. MySQL...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Apr 24, 2013 | MySQL
Since we announced that TokuDB is now open source, there has been a lot of positive feedback (thanks!) and also some questions about the details. I want to take this opportunity to give a quick high level guide to describe what our repositories on Github are. Here are...
by Tokutek | Apr 23, 2013 | MySQL
I enjoyed Stewart Smith’s MySQL storage engine blog last week. In it he noted “I cannot emphasize how much more interesting TokuDB would be if it were open source.” Well, with our open source announcement yesterday, hopefully we are getting...
by Martin.FarachColton | Apr 22, 2013 | MySQL
Every few months, I get the fun job of announcing what’s new in TokuDB®, but this time is special. With Version 7, TokuDB for MySQL and MariaDB is going open source. The free Community Edition is fully functional and fully performant. It has all the compression...
by Tokutek | Apr 9, 2013 | MySQL
If T.S. Eliot were a MySQL DBA, I think he would have been more upbeat about April. We are gearing up for an incredible second half of April. We will be presenting three separate sessions at the Percona Live: MySQL Conference and Expo 2013, April 22-25, in Santa...
by Stewart Smith | Apr 8, 2013 | MySQL
This post was initially going to be two sets of polls: “What is the maximum number of columns in MySQL?” and “What is the minimum maximum number of columns in MySQL?”. Before you read on, ponder those questions and come up with your own...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Apr 3, 2013 | MySQL
Earlier, I talked about the transactional semantics we are introducing to MongoDB. As I hinted at the end of the post, we are actually doing more. We are introducing multi-statement transactions. That’s right, multiple queries, updates, deletes, and inserts will be...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Apr 2, 2013 | MySQL
People claim that MongoDB is not transactional. It actually is, and that’s a good thing. In MongoDB 2.2, individual operations are Atomic. By having per database locks control reads and writes to collections, write operations on collections are Consistent and...
