MySQL Performance Blog

We’re happy to announce Andrew Aksyonoff, developer of popular OpenSource full text search software Sphinx joins our team.

Andrew will now have more time to dedicate to Sphinx development so cool new features will come sooner.

Having Andrew on board we’ll be able to solve all kinds of problems related to full text search, tagging and general information retrieval.

It does not mean we’ll push sphinx ether it suits your needs well or it does not. Sphinx is great for high performance high quality or complex full text search applications – but If you’re looking at smaller search applications we can help you getting most of MySQL build in full text search. If there are some features which are missing in Sphinx or it is not best solution for your application for other reasons we can help you with using Lucene or other external search system.

Finally having Andrew onboard we’ll be able to offer official Sphinx support, consulting and custom feature development via our company.

Several days ago MySQL AB made new storage engine Falcon available for wide auditory. We cannot miss this event and executed several benchmarks to see how Falcon performs in comparison to InnoDB and MyISAM.
The second goal of benchmark was a popular myth that MyISAM is faster than InnoDB in reads, as InnoDB is transactional, supports Foreign Key and has an operational overhead. As you will see it is not always true.

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