May 22, 2012

Post: Benchmarking single-row insert performance on Amazon EC2

… have been working for a customer benchmarking insert performance on Amazon EC2, and I have some interesting results that I wanted…

Comment: Making the impossible: 3 nodes intercontinental replication

… on the file system either. I tried this with both Amazon‘s default as well as RHEL 6.2 stock AMI images (I had to modify the script slightly for the Amazon image) but it didn’t work on either. Should I…

Comment: Moving Subtrees in Closure Table Hierarchies

… with DAGs: “SQL Design Patterns” by Vadim Tropashko. http://www.amazon.com/SQL-Design-Patterns-Programming-In-Focus/dp/0977671542/

Post: How We Got Here

… initiative, we’ve received support from companies such as HP, Amazon Web Services, McAfee, Clustrix, Akiban, Facebook, Google and many more…

Post: Diamond Keynote Panel, BOFs, Lightning Talks, and McAfee and AOL Sponsorships

… MySQL industry leaders, including: Sundar Raghavan, director product management at Amazon; Paul Mikesell, CEO of Clustrix; a representative from HP; and…

Post: Early Bird Pricing Ends Today for Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo

…. Keynote speakers will include representatives from HP, Facebook, Box, Clustrix, Amazon Web Services, Eucalyptus Systems, Percona, and more. This is the…

Post: High availability for MySQL on Amazon EC2 - Part 1 - Intro

…, I have been seduced by the power and flexibility of Amazon EC2. Being able to launch new instances at will depending on the load, is almost too good to be true. Amazon has also some drawbacks, availability is not guaranteed and discovery… and Heartbeat. The setup is fairly complex, being in the Amazon EC2 virtual world is not a simplification, far from. Because…

Post: MySQL on Amazon RDS part 2: Determining Peak Throughput

… of my series of benchmark posts comparing Amazon RDS to a server running on Amazon EC2. Upcoming posts (probably 6 or 8…

Post: MySQL on Amazon RDS part 1: insert performance

Amazon‘s Relational Database Service (RDS) is a cloud-hosted MySQL … next post in this series, we will see how the Amazon RDS instance performed at various thread counts on the OLTP…

Post: XtraDB Amazon Image

For those who use Amazon EC2 service and were anxious about having XtraDB ready to … there is a good news. We created a public AMI (Amazon Machine Image) with XtraDB release 8 installed on CentOS 5…