by Vadim Tkachenko | Sep 5, 2013 | Benchmarks, MySQL
This post is a continuation of my research of TokuDB’s storage engine to understand if it is suitable for timeseries workloads. While inserting LOAD DATA INFILE into an empty table shows great results for TokuDB, what’s more interesting is seeing some...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Aug 29, 2013 | Benchmarks, MySQL
I am working on a customer’s system where the requirement is to store a lot of timeseries data from different sensors. For performance reasons we are going to use SSD, and therefore there is a list of requirements for the architecture: Provide high insertion...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Jul 19, 2013 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL
In writing a recommendation for our Web development team on how to use MySQL, I came up with the following list, which I want to share: What kind of queries are bad for MySQL? Any query is bad. Send a query only if you must. (Hint: use caching like memcache or redis)...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Jun 25, 2013 | Cloud, MySQL
I am actually quite excited about Tokutek’s release of TokuMX. I think it is going to change the landscape of database systems and it is finally something that made me looking into NoSQL. Why is TokuMX interesting? A few reasons: It comes with transactions, and...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jun 12, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Services
We’re less than a week away from Percona MySQL University at Portland, Oregon next Monday, June 17. The latest in a series of FREE one-day educational events, we are pleased to feature 10 technical talks by members of Team Percona as well as local members of the...
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 Vadim Tkachenko | Apr 16, 2013 | Benchmarks, Hardware and Storage, MySQL
The Micron P320h SSD is an SLC-based PCIe solid-state storage device which claims to provide the highest read throughput of any server-grade SSD, and at Micron’s request, I recently took some time to put the card through its paces, and the numbers are indeed...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Mar 21, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Events
I actually don’t remember exactly whether it was in 2006, 2007 or 2008 — but around that time the MySQL community had one of the greatest MySQL conferences put on by O’Reilly and MySQL. It was a good, stable, predictable time. Shortly thereafter, the MySQL...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Mar 16, 2013 | MySQL
For this post I’m going to shamelessly exploit the litany of technical problems SimCity players encountered earlier this month and a few examples of how Thread Pool for MySQL and Percona Server for MySQL can help to prevent such incidents. Users of SimCity, a...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Feb 28, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Software
Following Roel’s post, Percona Server on the Raspberry Pi: Your own MySQL Database Server , I thought what other crazy gadget can I run Percona Server on? And having an Asus Nexus 7 Android tablet I decided to give it a try. Anything below contains a risk that...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Jan 31, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Software
With our newest release of Percona XtraDB Cluster, I would like to highlight a very nice ability to recovery a node and bring it back to the cluster with an incremental transfer after a crash. This feature was available even in previous release, but now I want to give...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Jan 29, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Software
We continue to improve Percona XtraBackup, and today I would like to give a preview for one feature which comes in next Percona XtraBackup 2.1 release. This feature is “Compact backups”, and let me explain what it does. As you may know InnoDB PK (Primary...
