As there were many requests for Debian binary packages in our announcement of Percona builds with custom patchsets, we decided to play with it and built .deb, which you can find there: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/mysql/debian/ You can also add the following repositories into your sources.list: deb http://mysqlperformanceblog.com/mysql/debian/5.0/ binary-amd64/ deb http://mysqlperformanceblog.com/mysql/debian/5.0/ source/ deb http://mysqlperformanceblog.com/mysql/debian/5.1/ binary-amd64/ deb http://mysqlperformanceblog.com/mysql/debian/5.1/ source/ [...]
MySQL Releases first real Community Release
March 18, 2007 By 2 Comments
Few days ago MySQL released MySQL 5.0.37 which I would call first real Community Version, because unlike previous versions which were released from the same source tree as Enterprise MySQL this one has some community features added, which is great. Also over last half a year MySQL seems to have organized resources for Community Engineering [...]
InnoDB vs MyISAM vs Falcon benchmarks – part 1
January 8, 2007 By 117 Comments
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, [...]
InnoDB benchmarks
January 3, 2007 By 15 Comments
There was several changes in InnoDB to fix scalabilty problems, so I ran benchmark to check new results and also compare overall performance of InnoDB in 5.0 and 5.1 before and after fixes. Problems in InnoDB that were fixed: Thread trashing issues with count of theads 100+. In this case performance of InnoDB degraded dramatically. [...]
