by Michael.Bender | Oct 15, 2012 | MySQL
Bradley and I (Michael) gave the tutorial on Data Structures and Algorithms for Big Databases at the 6th XLDB Conference last month. The tutorial was organized as follows: Module 0: Tutorial overview and introductions. We describe an observed (but not necessary)...
by Tim.Callaghan | Sep 13, 2012 | MySQL
In my three previous blogs I wrote about our implementation of Fractal Tree Indexes on MongoDB, showing a 10x insertion performance increase, a 268x query performance increase, and a comparison of covered indexes and clustered indexes. The benchmarks show the...
by Tim.Callaghan | Aug 30, 2012 | MySQL
Last week I wrote about our 10x insertion performance increase with MongoDB. We’ve continued our experimental integration of Fractal Tree® Indexes into MongoDB, adding support for clustered indexes. A clustered index stores all non-index fields as the “value” portion...
by Tim.Callaghan | Aug 23, 2012 | MySQL
The challenge of handling massive data processing workloads has spawned many new innovations and techniques in the database world, from indexing innovations like our Fractal Tree® technology to a myriad of “NoSQL” solutions (here is our Chief Scientist’s perspective)....
by Tokutek | Jul 5, 2012 | MySQL
… Ya se que estás piantao, piantao, piantao… For my lastest blog, a review of the MySQL, NoSQL and Cloud Conference, I’ll continue to use the tango metaphor. Balada para un loco (ballad for a crazy one) is a Piazzola classic and explains what I think of Santiago...
by Martin.FarachColton | Jun 4, 2012 | MySQL
The signal-to-noise ratio in the NoSQL world has made it hard to figure out what’s going on, or even who has something new. For all the talk of performance in the NoSQL world, much of the most exciting part of what’s new is really not about performance at all. Take...
by Tokutek | Sep 8, 2011 | MySQL
Intent Media Issue addressed: Ad hoc analytics on clickstream data arriving too fast for InnoDB or NoSQL to handle. TokuDB powers an online advertising application The Company: Headquartered in New York, Intent Media is a fast-growing online advertising startup. The...
by Ryan Lowe | Mar 16, 2011 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
HandlerSocket has really generated a lot of interest because of the dual promises of ease-of-use and blazing-fast performance. The performance comes from eliminating CPU consumption. Akira Higuchi’s HandlerSocket presentation from a couple of months back had...
by Ryan Lowe | Mar 14, 2011 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Events
On March 29th, I’ll be giving a webinar whose title is “Understanding HandlerSocket – A NoSQL PlugIn For MySQLâ€. This is a continuation and extension of the talk I gave during the Percona Live Event in San Francisco back in February. We’ll ask, and...
by Peter Zaitsev | Apr 30, 2010 | Cloud, MySQL
Another thing I find interesting about MongoDB is its approach to Durability, Data Consistency and Availability. It is very relaxed and will not work for some applications but for others it can be usable in current form. Let me explain some concepts and compare it to...
by Peter Zaitsev | Apr 30, 2010 | Cloud, MySQL
I went to MongoSF today – quite an event, and I hope to have a chance to write more about it. This post is about one replication problem and how MongoDB solves it. If you’re using MySQL Replication when your master goes down it is possible for some writes...
by Ryan Lowe | Dec 10, 2009 | Benchmarks, Cloud, MySQL
Peter took a look at Redis some time ago; and now, with the impending 1.2 release and a slew of new features, I thought it time to look again. One of the more interesting features in 1.2 is the ability to operate in “append-only file persistence mode”,...
by Matt Yonkovit | Nov 12, 2009 | Benchmarks, Cloud, MySQL
This is part 3 of my Tyrant extra’s, part 1 focused on durability, part 2 focused on the perceived performance wall. #3. Tokyo Cabinet Can have only a single writer thread, bottlenecking performance When writing an application using Tokyo Cabinet only one...
by Matt Yonkovit | Nov 11, 2009 | Benchmarks, Cloud, MySQL
Continuing my look at Tokyo Tyrant/Cabinet and addressing some of the concerns I have seen people have brought up this is post #2. #2. As your data grows does Tokyo Cabinet slow down? Yes your performance can degrade. One obvious performance decrease with a larger...
by Matt Yonkovit | Nov 10, 2009 | Benchmarks, Cloud, MySQL
by Matt Yonkovit | Oct 19, 2009 | Benchmarks, Cloud, MySQL
This is part 3 of our series. In part 1 we talked about boosting performance with memcached on top of MySQL, in Part 2 we talked about running 100% outside the data with memcached, and now in Part 3 we are going to look at a possible solution to free you from the...
by Matt Yonkovit | Oct 16, 2009 | Benchmarks, Cloud, MySQL
Part 1 of our series set-up our “test” application and looked at boosting performance of the application by buffer MySQL with memcached. Our test application is simple and requires only 3 basic operations per transaction 2 reads and 1 write. Using...
by Matt Yonkovit | Oct 15, 2009 | Benchmarks, Cloud, MySQL
All to often people force themselves into using a database like MySQL with no thought into whether if its the best solution to there problem. Why? Because their other applications use it, so why not the new application? Over the past couple of months I have been...
