In my previous rounds with DataWarehouse oriented engines I used single table without joins, and with small (as for DW) datasize (see http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/10/02/analyzing-air-traffic-performance-with-infobright-and-monetdb/, http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/10/26/air-traffic-queries-in-luciddb/, http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/11/02/air-traffic-queries-in-infinidb-early-alpha/). Addressing these issues, I took Star Schema Benchmark, which is TPC-H modification, and tried run queries against InfoBright, InfiniDB, LucidDB and MonetDB. I did not get results for MonetDB, will [...]
Paul McCullagh answers your questions about PBXT
November 20, 2009 By 2 Comments
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 [...]
InnoDB: look after fragmentation
November 5, 2009 By 12 Comments
One problem made me puzzled for couple hours, but it was really interesting to figure out what’s going on. So let me introduce problem at first. The table is
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | CREATE TABLE `c` ( `tracker_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, `username` char(20) character set latin1 collate latin1_bin NOT NULL, `time_id` date NOT NULL, `block_id` int(10) unsigned default NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`tracker_id`,`username`,`time_id`), KEY `block_id` (`block_id`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB |
Table has 11864696 rows and takes Data_length: 698,351,616 bytes on disk The problem is that after restoring table from mysqldump, the query that scans data [...]
Analyzing air traffic performance with InfoBright and MonetDB
October 2, 2009 By 50 Comments
Accidentally me and Baron played with InfoBright (see http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/09/29/quick-comparison-of-myisam-infobright-and-monetdb/) this week. And following Baron’s example I also run the same load against MonetDB. Reading comments to Baron’s post I tied to load the same data to LucidDB, but I was not successful in this. I tried to analyze a bigger dataset and I took public [...]
Give me 8 hours, and I’ll help you build a better application
August 29, 2009 By 4 Comments
I have run into a number of cases recently that all had a similar look and feel. In most of these cases, the symptoms were very complicated, but they boiled down to just a few problems that can be prevented in very simple ways. If you are not doing any of the following three simple [...]
XtraDB storage engine release 1.0.3-7
August 17, 2009 By 6 Comments
Dear Community, Today we are announcing XtraDB release 7. This is the last release based on InnoDB plugin version 1.0.3, as you might know Innobase has released 1.0.4. The release includes following new features: MySQL 5.1.37 as a base release speed hack for buf_flush_insert_sorted_into_flush_list controlled by the new variable innodb_fast_recovery Fixed bugs: MySQL Bugs: #45357: [...]
XtraDB: The Top 10 enhancements
August 13, 2009 By 5 Comments
Note: This post is part 2 of 4 on building our training workshop. Last week I talked about why you don’t want to shard. This week I’m following up with the top 10 enhancements that XtraDB has over the built-in InnoDB included in MySQL 5.0 and 5.1. Building this list was not really a scientific [...]
Call for opinions: Do we need MySQL 5.0 with MySQL 5.4 performance
April 29, 2009 By 12 Comments
MySQL 5.4 comes with Innodb engine which seems to have much better performance than MySQL 5.0 – this is due to locking and IO patches from Google integrated in this release (which are similar to appropriate Percona patches) as well as some unique fixes such as different innodb_thread_concurrency handling and other optimization. Should we take [...]
Talking MySQL to Sphinx
April 19, 2009 By 4 Comments
In the recently released Sphinx version 0.9.9-rc2 there is a support for MySQL wire protocol and SphinxQL – SQL-like language to query Sphinx indexes. This support is currently in its early preview stage but it is still fun to play with. A thing to mention – unlike MySQL Storage Engines, some of which as InfoBright [...]
High-Performance Click Analysis with MySQL
December 22, 2008 By 13 Comments
We have a lot of customers who do click analysis, site analytics, search engine marketing, online advertising, user behavior analysis, and many similar types of work. The first thing these have in common is that they’re generally some kind of loggable event. The next characteristic of a lot of these systems (real or planned) is [...]
