Following on from our earlier announcement, Paul McCullagh has responded with the answers to your questions – as well as a few I gathered from other Percona folks, and attendees of OpenSQL Camp. Thank you Paul! What’s the “ideal” use case for the PBXT engine, and how does it compare in performance?  When would I [...]
Using Multiple Key Caches for MyISAM Scalability
November 26, 2008 By 8 Comments
I have written before – MyISAM Does Not Scale, or it does quite well – two main things stopping you is table locks and global mutex on the KeyCache. Table Locks are not the issue for Read Only workload and write intensive workloads can be dealt with by using with many tables but Key Cache [...]
Beware of MyISAM Key Cache mutex contention
August 12, 2008 By 10 Comments
Today I was working with the client loading data to MyISAM tables at very high rate. Hundreds of millions rows are loaded daily into single MySQL instance with bursts up to 100K of records/sec which need to be inserted (in the table with few indexes). It was good not all records had to go to [...]
Will Falcon fly?
June 22, 2008 By 11 Comments
Why one may wonder, it’s just Swedish beer (State of Doplhin, MySQL UC 2006). One week ago Jim Starkey sent message http://www.firebirdnews.org/?p=1742 so he will not work for MySQL anymore and starting new project. While that’s fully Jim Starkey’s personal decision, I expected some comments about Falcon future development from MySQL / Sun side. Jim [...]
MySQL Users Conference Presentation Proposals
October 24, 2007 By 12 Comments
OK, I am not getting too much people feedback on what would they like to hear about on MySQL Users Conference, so I went ahead and submitted few presentation ideas. I do not expect all of them would be accepted, furthermore it would be hard to prepare so many good presentations if they are so [...]
MySQL Northern European Customer Conference
October 17, 2007 By 7 Comments
Yesterday I’ve attended MySQL Customers Conference in London. This event is much smaller size than Users Conference (one day and about 170 people attending) and surely less geeky – there were no one from MySQL Development Support or Consulting teams and Sales Engineers were as close as you could get. Though Anders Karlsson and Ivan [...]
MyISAM Scalability and Innodb, Falcon Benchmarks
October 12, 2007 By 10 Comments
We many times wrote about InnoDB scalability problems, this time We are faced with one for MyISAM tables. We saw that several times in synthetic benchmarks but never in production, that’s why we did not escalate MyISAM scalability question. This time working on the customer system we figured out that box with 1 CPU Core [...]
Speaking on OSCON 2007
July 3, 2007 By 2 Comments
Vadim and me will be speaking on OSCON 2007, taking place in Portland,OR July 23-27. Our talk will be about Open Source Transactional Storage Engines meaning Innodb, Falcon, Solid and PBXT. We’ll look into architecture of these storage engines as well as compare performance in number of Benchmarks. If you will be visiting OSCON please [...]
Countless storage engines
May 3, 2007 By 6 Comments
Today everybody writes about MySQL Conference & Expo and I am not an exclusion. I am under impression of count of storage engines were presented. In good old time when Oracle bought InnoDB, MySQL did one step – announced MySQL supports Plugginable Storage Architecture. In that time nobody was able to predict what is the [...]
PBXT benchmarks
April 8, 2007 By 14 Comments
The PBXT Storage Engine (http://www.primebase.com/xt/) is getting stable and we decided to benchmark it in different workloads. This time I tested only READ queries, similar to ones in benchmark InnoDB vs MyISAM vs Falcon (http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2007/01/08/innodb-vs-myisam-vs-falcon-benchmarks-part-1) The difference is I used new sysbench with Lua scripting language, so all queries were scripted for sysbench.
