by Yves Trudeau | Nov 23, 2018 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
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...
by Avinash Vallarapu | Aug 10, 2018 | Insight for DBAs, PostgreSQL
The performance of a PostgreSQL database can be compromised by dead tuples since they continue to occupy space and can lead to bloat. We provided an introduction to VACUUM and bloat in an earlier blog post. Now, though, it’s time to look at autovacuum for...
by Avinash Vallarapu | Jun 15, 2018 | Benchmarks, PostgreSQL
Percona has a long tradition of performance investigation and benchmarking. Peter Zaitsev, CEO and Vadim Tkachenko, CTO, led their crew into a series of experiments with MySQL in this space. The discussion that always follows on the results achieved is well known and...
by Alexander Rubin | Oct 12, 2016 | MySQL
This blog updates Stephane Combaudon’s blog on MySQL performance tuning and covers MySQL 5.7 performance tuning immediately after installation. A few years ago, Stephane Combaudon wrote a blog post on Ten MySQL performance tuning settings after installation that...
by Matt Yonkovit | Apr 6, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Services
Every day hundreds of millions of dollars are wasted by allowing improperly tuned or misconfigured systems, misunderstood infrastructure, and inefficient IT operations to live and thrive in data centers around the globe. There are both direct and indirect costs...
