September 22, 2006

Test Drive of Solid

Posted by Vadim |

Not so long ago Solid released solidDB for MySQL Beta 3 so I decided now is time to take a bit closer look on new transactional engine for MySQL. While my far goal is the performance and scalability testing before I wanted to look at basic transactional properties such as deadlock detection, select for update handling and phantom reads in the repeatable read isolation level.

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EuroOSCON 2006 – High Performance FullText Search

Posted by peter |

I’m now back from EuroOSCON 2006 which was the reason I was not posting for a while. Pretty interesting event, even though it looks like it is getting less geeky compared to OSCON in US I visited two years ago – a lot of presentations now shifted to philosophical, political and business issues. I however do not know might be this is just Europe thing.

I gave a talk on High Performance FullText Search for Database Content which is now available for download from MySQL Performance Presentations page

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