May 23, 2012

Comment: Best kept MySQLDump Secret

…” which was ever taken. This is just how things were designed with MySQL and how transactions were retrofitted to it. MySQL… MySQL will ever be redesigned to focus on transactional storage engines or whenever this will remain Drizzle’s turf.

Post: Falcon Storage Engine Design Review

Now as new MySQL Storage engine – Falcon is public I can write down my thought about its design, which I previously should… base of my MySQL use with existing applications – if you design new applications which are done specially for Falcon you might… 8-16M as you need with page cache. There are design techniques though to improve page cache efficiency in this respect…

Post: Countless storage engines

…. The interesting note Solid proposes High Availability solution for Solid Engine, which can be replacement of MySQL replication (the solution was… presented and details only available from marketing materials: NitroEDB The engine promises to handle in very fast way aggregative functions on… and read-only engine designed for DataWarehouse applications with compression rate from 10:1 to 30:1 ScaleDB The engine based on special…

Post: Paul McCullagh answers your questions about PBXT

… try it”.  PBXT is a general purpose transactional storage engine, designed to perform well on a broad range of tasks, much… have very few configuration parameters.  Was this an intentional design decision, and do you see it creating opportunities for you… tuning parameters that are absolutely necessary, PBXT is not specifically designed to be self-tuning, because I believe that is a…

Post: Announcing Percona XtraDB Storage Engine: a Drop-in Replacement for Standard InnoDB

… environments. Percona XtraDB includes all of InnoDB’s ACID-compliant design and advanced MVCC architecture, and adds features, more tunability, more… small variations from standard InnoDB. Percona will improve this storage engine using our own ideas, as well as incorporate improvements specifically…

Post: The Doom of Multiple Storage Engines

… “zero copy” design one may have streaming data from memory when it fits there. Optimizer and Execution Storage engines are not created… transaction engines have their own ! Quality Assurance Multiple storage engines are much more complicated to test. And I believe multi-storage engine use… have to deal with balancing – allocating resources to different storage engines and performance tuning becomes more complicated. Now what is interesting…

Post: Power of MySQL Storage Engines

… will not be easy to figure out which storage engine or storage engine mix is best match for you. Believe me people… I think happens with custom storage engines which are not designed to be run as core storage engines and are not match of… external search engine . As MySQL 5.1 and plugable storage engine interface matures I hope we’ll see more storage engines which are…

Post: MySQL Server Variables - SQL layer or Storage Engine specific.

… concurrent insert (while Selects are running) for MyISAM storage engine. Other Storage engine ether always have it (ie Innodb) or do not… inserts configuration. Technically it is not storage engine dependent, in practice however not all storage engines support it. For example Innodb tables… is technically variable which affects all tables but it was designed for MyISAM tables. It makes little sense to use it…

Post: All thouse new MySQL Storage Engines

… results – and these cases always exist. Making decisions in software design you often have to made tradeoffs which makes it especially… it hard to get independent product evaluation. Many of storage engines will indeed offer you benefits they promise but, but you… make sure to get as much information about Performance and Design limitations as you can and be aware – Sales and Marketing…

Post: Detailed review of Tokutek storage engine

…, as TokuDB is a disk-based, read-write transactional storage engine that is based on special “fractal tree indexes”. Fractal…. – We did not tested wide range of queries, but by design expect there may be not good results for some kind… say how it will work with mix of storage engines. – The Tokutek engine I tested comes in binary form and mysqld binary…