In this blog, we’ll look at how improvements to Percona XtraDB Cluster improved IST performance. Introduction Starting in version 5.7.17-29.20 of Percona XtraDB Cluster significantly improved performance. Depending on the workload, the increase in throughput is in the range of 3-10x. (More details here). These optimization fixes also helped improve IST (Incremental State Transfer) performance. This […]
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In this blog post, we’ll look at how ClickHouse performs in a general analytical workload using the star schema benchmark test. We have mentioned ClickHouse in some recent posts (ClickHouse: New Open Source Columnar Database, Column Store Database Benchmarks: MariaDB ColumnStore vs. Clickhouse vs. Apache Spark), where it showed excellent results. ClickHouse by itself seems […]
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In this blog, we will provide answers to the Q & A for the MySQL In the Cloud: Migration, Best Practices, High Availability, Scaling webinar. First, we want to thank everybody for attending the June 7, 2017 webinar. The recording and slides for the webinar are available here. Below is the list of your questions that we […]
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Join Percona’s Senior Technical Services Engineer Bimal Kharel on Tuesday, May 23, 2017, as he presents a webinar on MongoDB monitoring called How to Help Your DBA’s Sleep Better at Night at 10:00 am PDT / 1:00 pm EDT (UTC-7). Register Now Are you trying to stay on top of your database before things turn ugly? Between […]
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In this blog, we’ll look at how to achieve better-than-linear scaling. Scalability is the capability of a system, network or process to handle a growing amount of work, or its potential to be enlarged to accommodate that growth. For example, we consider a system scalable if it is capable of increasing its total output under […]
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In this blog post, we’ll look at the actions and efforts Percona experts took to scale Percona XtraDB Cluster. Introduction When we first started analyzing Percona XtraDB Cluster performance, it was pretty bad. We would see contention even with 16 threads. Performance was even worse with sync binlog=1, although the same pattern was observed even with […]
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In this blog, we’ll look at evaluating the performance of an SST data transfer without encryption. A State Snapshot Transfer (SST) operation is an important part of Percona XtraDB Cluster. It’s used to provision the joining node with all the necessary data. There are three methods of SST operation available: mysqldump, rsync, xtrabackup. The most […]
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In this blog post, I’ll take a look at the performance of the Samsung 960 Pro SSD NVME. First, I know the Samsung 960 Pro is a consumer SSD NVME drive, not intended for sustained data center workloads. But the AnandTech review looked good enough that I decided to take it for a test spin to see if […]
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The MariaDB subquery cache feature added in MariaDB 5.3 is not widely known. Let’s see what it is and how it works. What is a subquery cache? The MariaDB subquery cache optimizes the execution of correlated subqueries. Correlated subqueries refer to a value from the parent query. For example:
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MariaDB only uses this optimization if […]
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In this blog post, I’ll look for the bottleneck that prevented the performance in my previous post from achieving better results. The powerful machine I used in the tests in my previous post has a comparatively slow disk, and therefore I expected my tests would hit a point when I couldn’t increase performance further due to the disk speed. […]
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