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 Different Storage Mediums. In this talk, Ken reviewed some benchmark testing he did using MySQL on various types of storage mediums. This talk looked at the performance of Percona Server for MySQL for Linux running on the same Intel system, but with three different storage configurations. We looked at and compared the performance of:

  1. a RAID of HDD,
  2. a RAID of SATA SSD, and
  3. a RAID of NVMe SSD

In the talk,  Ken covered the hardware and system configuration and then discuss results of TPC-C and TPC-H benchmarks, as well as the overall system costs including hardware and software, and cost per transaction/query based on overall costs and benchmark results.

I got a chance to speak with Ken after his talk, check it out below!