by Dave Avery | Apr 19, 2016 | Percona Live
We’re moving along on the first day at Percona Live 2016, and I was able to attend a lecture from Intel’s Ken LeTourneau, Solutions Architect at Intel, on Performance of Percona Server for MySQL on Intel Server Systems using HDD, SATA SSD, and NVMe SSD as...
by Peter Zaitsev | Mar 22, 2016 | MySQL
This blog discusses how TokuDB impacts InnoDB performance when the two run in the same environment. You would think MySQL storage engines are fairly independent of each other, even in the same environment. Enabling one, or changing its configuration, logically should...
by Emily Ikuta | Dec 30, 2015 | MySQL, Webinars
Too often developers and DBAs struggle to pinpoint the root cause of MySQL database performance issues, and then spend too much time in trying to fix them. Wouldn’t it be great to bypass wasted guesswork and get right to the issue? In our upcoming webinar Tired of...
by Jon Tobin | Feb 25, 2015 | MySQL
In Mo’ Data, Mo’ Problems, we explored the paradox that “Big Data” projects pose to organizations and how Tokutek is taking an innovative approach to solving those problems. In this post, we’re going to talk about another hot topic in IT, “The Cloud,” and how...
by Aurimas Mikalauskas | Jan 15, 2015 | Benchmarks, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
The other day a customer asked me to do capacity planning for their web server farm. I was looking at the CPU graph for one of the web servers that had Hyper-threading switched ON and thought to myself: “This must be quite a misleading graph – it shows 30%...
by Rich.Prohaska | Dec 17, 2014 | MySQL
TokuDB offers high throughput for write intensive applications, and the throughput scales with the number of concurrent clients. However, when the binary log is turned on, TokuDB 7.5.2 throughput suffers. The throughput scaling problem is caused by a poor...
by Dave Rosenlund | Oct 3, 2014 | MySQL
MongoDB includes several powerful features like high availability, read scaling, and horizontal scalability in an easy-to-use, schema-free database platform. But, what if you could retain those properties, improve performance, and ensure scalability without...
by Bill Karwin | Jul 17, 2014 | Insight for Developers, MySQL, Webinars
On Wednesday I gave a presentation on “How to Avoid Even More Common (but Deadly) MySQL Development Mistakes” for Percona MySQL Webinars. If you missed it, you can still register to view the recording and my slides. Thanks to everyone who attended, and...
by Dave Rosenlund | Jun 5, 2014 | MySQL
MongoDB replication has a lot of great features including crash safety, automatic failover and parallel slave replication. Although MongoDB’s replication is impressive in many ways, TokuMX™ replication internals are purposely designed differently. Register Now!...
by Yves Trudeau | May 23, 2014 | Benchmarks, Hardware and Storage, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Live
Update: do not do this, this has been proven to corrupt data! During April’s Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2014, I attended a talk on MySQL 5.7 performance an scalability given by Dimitri Kravtchuk, the Oracle MySQL benchmark specialist. He mentioned at...
by Dave Rosenlund | May 7, 2014 | MySQL
NoSQL time-series applications built with MongoDB frequently need to remove expired or unwanted data. This is especially true in the world of big data. Sub-optimization in this area leads to unnecessary database growth and decreased performance. In addition, the Time...
by Justin Swanhart | May 1, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
While Shard-Query can work over multiple nodes, this blog post focuses on using Shard-Query with a single node. Shard-Query can add parallelism to queries which use partitioned tables. Very large tables can often be partitioned fairly easily. Shard-Query can...
by Alexander Rubin | Apr 21, 2014 | MySQL
Apache Hadoop is commonly used for data analysis. It is fast for data loads and scalable. In a previous post I showed how to integrate MySQL with Hadoop. In this post I will show how to export a table from MySQL to Hadoop, load the data to Cloudera Impala (columnar...
by Dave Rosenlund | Apr 18, 2014 | MySQL
A little background… When I ventured into sales and marketing (I’m an engineer by education) I learned I would often have to interpret and simply summarize the business value that is sometimes hidden in benchmarks. Simply put, the people who approve the purchase...
by Dave Rosenlund | Mar 13, 2014 | MySQL
You may think that you have to buy, install, and get up to speed on a new database if you want to work with large amounts of data, but you can do more than you think with the MySQL you already have. Register Now! SPEAKER: Jon Tobin, Tokutek DATE: Thursday, March 20th...
by Dave Rosenlund | Feb 27, 2014 | MySQL
It may be easy to choose a NoSQL database, but do you know which distribution is best for you? Which will perform better? Which will scale further? Look before you leap. Register Now! SPEAKER: John Schulz DATE: Wednesday, March 5th TIME: 1pm ET AOL, the well-known...
by Leif.Walsh | Feb 25, 2014 | MySQL
We just released version 1.4.0 of TokuMX, our high-performance distribution of MongoDB. There are a lot of improvements in this version (release notes), the most of any release yet. In this series of blog posts, we describe the most interesting changes and how they’ll...
by Leif.Walsh | Feb 21, 2014 | MySQL
We just released version 1.4.0 of TokuMX, our high-performance distribution of MongoDB. There are a lot of improvements in this version (release notes), the most of any release yet. In this series of blog posts, we describe the most interesting changes and how they’ll...
by Leif.Walsh | Feb 20, 2014 | MySQL
We just released version 1.4.0 of TokuMX, our high-performance distribution of MongoDB. There are a lot of improvements in this version (release notes), the most of any release yet. In this series of blog posts, we describe the most interesting changes and how they’ll...
by Leif.Walsh | Feb 19, 2014 | MySQL
We just released version 1.4.0 of TokuMX, our high-performance distribution of MongoDB. There are a lot of improvements in this version (release notes), the most of any release yet. In this series of blog posts, we describe the most interesting changes and how they’ll...
