June 19, 2013

Post: MySQL and the SSB - Part 2 - MyISAM vs InnoDB low concurrency

… series on the Star Schema Benchmark. In my previous blog post I compared MySQL 5.5.30 to MySQL 5.6.10, both with default settings using only the InnoDB storage engine.  In my testing I discovered that innodb_old_blocks_time had an effect on performance of the benchmark.  There…

Post: Learn About MySQL 5.6 at the Percona Live MySQL Conference

MySQL 5.6 at the Percona Live MySQL Conference: “MySQL 5.6: Performance Benchmarks, Tuning, and ‘Best’ Practices” by Dmitri Kravtchuk, MySQL Performance Architect “MySQL 5.6: What’s New in InnoDB” by Sunny Bains, Senior Principal Software EngineerMySQL 5.6…

Post: More on MySQL transaction descriptors optimization

… well, so we tried to answer that question by retrying benchmarks on various combinations of hardware and dataset sizes, including the…=120 –max-requests=0 –percentile=99 –mysql-user=root –mysql-db=sbtest8t1M –mysql-table-engine=INNODB –mysql-socket=/tmp/mysql.sock –oltp-point-selects=1 –oltp…

Post: Keynotes, BOFs, and the Community Networking Reception at Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo

… Software Engineer, Oracle Topic: “MySQL 5.6: What’s New in InnoDB” Dmitri Kravtchuk, MySQL Performance Architect, Oracle Topic: “MySQL 5.6: Performance Benchmarks, Tuning, and ‘Best’ Practices” Luís Soares, Senior Software Engineer, Oracle Topic: “MySQL 5.6…

Post: Benchmarking Percona Server TokuDB vs InnoDB

… measure that also. And, if you want to repeat this benchmark, the sysbench code is on Launchpad lp:~vadim-tk/sysbench…=insert_roll.lua –oltp-table-size=10000 –mysql-user=root –oltp-tables-count=32 –mysql_table_engine=tokudb –oltp_auto_inc=on –max… = 10G myisam_repair_threads = 1 myisam_recover socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock user=root skip-grant-tables TokuDB-related options are…

Post: Is your MySQL buffer pool warm? Make it sweat!

… diving into the waters of the MySQL buffer pool is a cross-post from Groupon’s engineering blog, and is Part 1… my Fosdem 2013 slides for information about discarded designs and benchmarks.) First, we set long_query_time to 0 in order… is necessary when running a large stream of queries. Benchmarks We benchmarked with slow query logs captured from our production systems. We…

Post: Virident vCache vs. FlashCache: Part 2

… can be declared the clear winner. Base MySQL & Benchmark Configuration All benchmarks were conducted with the following: sysbench ­­–num…percentile=95 ­­\ –mysql­-user=root –mysql­-socket=/tmp/mysql.sock ­­–mysql­-table­-engine=innodb ­­\ –oltp­-read­-only=off run The base MySQL configuration …

Post: Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013: It feels like 2007 again

… major MySQL players are coming to the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013. I am happy to see Oracle’s engineers coming with talks — and now with a great MySQL 5.6 release — and I have great confidence in MySQL‘s… benchmarks should be run, what the next bottleneck in MySQL will be, and how we, with Percona Server, are going to beat MySQL

Comment: State of the art: Galera - synchronous replication for InnoDB

…http://www.codership.com/en/content/benchmarking-write-scalability does not work anymore? I am …,000 queries in about 50-60 seconds to mysql 5.1 and in about 6-9 seconds…auto-generate-sql –csv=/tmp/mysqlslap_3index_innodb.csv –engine=innodb –auto-generate-sql-add-autoincrement –auto-generate…

Post: New OLAP Wikistat benchmark: Introduction and call for feedbacks

…see details on our Percona Wikistat benchmark Wiki. I have next goals with proposed benchmark: Compare engines in OLAP queries for planning, …am going to load data and run queries against available engines: MySQL MyISAM / InnoDB (to have reference results) InfoBright InfiniDB MonetDB LucidDB…