MySQL Performance Blog

There are interesting posts these day about future of MySQL Replication by Brian Frank and Arjen.

I think it very interesting to take a look at a bit bigger picture using framework from Innovators Dilemma and Innovators Solution.

I’m not going to speak about disruption and commoditisation of Database Market, leaving this for Market talks, my interest is market of Web Applications in general.
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Reading Barons post about Kickfire Appliance and of course talking to them directly I learned a lot in their product is about beating data processing limitations of current systems.

This raises valid question how fast can MySQL process (filter) data using it current architecture ?
I decided to test the most simple case - what if we take the in memory table with very narrow row and run simple query which needs to do simple filtering - how many rows per second it will be able to do?
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