We were doing MySQL Performance evaluation on TPC-H queries for the client and they kindly allowed us to publish results which are very interesting. This is obviously not audited TPC-H run, and it can’t be because we used MyISAM tables which are not ACID complaint. Plus we only measured Power to keep things simple. We [...]
MySQL Performance on Memory Appliance
March 31, 2008 By 23 Comments
Recently I have had a chance to check out MySQL Performance on “Memory Appliance” by Violin Memory which can be used as extremely high speed storage system. I helped Violin Memory to optimize MySQL for customer workload and Violin memory and also had a chance to do some benchmarks on my own. 2*Quad Core Xeon [...]
Evaluating IO subsystem performance for MySQL Needs
March 5, 2008 By 23 Comments
I’m often asked how one can evaluate IO subsystem (Hard drive RAID or SAN) performance for MySQL needs so I’ve decided to write some simple steps you can take to get a good feeling about it, it is not perfect but usually can tell you quite a lot of what you should expect from the [...]
How we work on High Performance MySQL Second Edition
November 12, 2007 By 12 Comments
Baron have been updating you a lot about chapter by chapter progress so I should not repeat it, instead I thought it would be a good idea to write a bit about how we work on the book. Generally, quite similar to the previous book this is long process, which is probably what happens when [...]
Heikki Tuuri Innodb answers – Part I
October 26, 2007 By 19 Comments
Its almost a month since I promised Heikki Tuuri to answer Innodb Questions. Heikki is a busy man so I got answers to only some of the questions but as people still poking me about this I decided to publish the answers I have so far. Plus we may get some interesting follow up questions [...]
MySQL and PostgreSQL SpecJAppServer benchmark results
July 25, 2007 By 13 Comments
Listening to Josh Berkus presentation on OSCON today I decided to take a closer look at SpecJAppServer benchmarks results which were published by PostgreSQL recently and which as Josh Puts it “This publication shows that a properly tuned PostgreSQL is not only as fast or faster than MySQL, but almost as fast as Oracle (since [...]
MySQL Stored Procedures problems and use practices
June 12, 2007 By 21 Comments
To be honest I’m not a big fan of Stored Procedures, At least not in the form they are currently implemented in MySQL 5.0 Only SQL as a Language Which is ancient ugly for algorithmic programming and slow. It is also forces you to use a lot of foreign constructs to “original” MySQL style – [...]
MySQL Users Conference – Innodb
May 9, 2007 By 6 Comments
It might look like it is too late to write about stuff happened at Users Conference but I’m just starting find bits of time from processing accumulated backlog. The Theme of this Users Conference was surely Storage Engines both looking at number of third party storage engine presented, main marketing message – Storage Engine partnership [...]
SysBench – benchmark tool
August 18, 2006 By 20 Comments
Sysbench is benchmark developed by Alexey Kopytov (software engineer @ MySQL AB) – http://sysbench.sourceforge.net/ and I want to write a short intro about this tool as sysbench is one of software for my everyday use. For example, SUN published their Solaris vs RedHat stuff based on sysbench’s results (Peter and me provided performance consutling for [...]
Consulting for MySQL
July 31, 2006 By
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