MySQL Replication is asynchronous which causes problems if you would like to use MySQL Slave as it can contain stale data. It is true delay is often insignificant but in times of heavy load or in case you was running some heavy queries on the master which not take time to replicate to the slave [...]
BoardReader – Forum Search Engine
November 29, 2006 By 13 Comments
One may have notice we were not blogging too much recently, this is because we were quite busy, mainly building BoardReader.com – Search Engine which indexes tens of thousands of forums from all over the world. This project was built by us as consulting project so too bad we do not own it completely but [...]
Using Sphinx as MySQL data retrieval accelerator
October 30, 2006 By 25 Comments
I’ve run into the following thread couple of days ago: Basically someone is using sphinx to perform search simply on attributes (date, group etc) and get sorted result set and claiming it is way faster than getting it with MySQL. Honestly I can well believe it for cases when you want to know number of [...]
MySQL Performance Forum: Hot Topics
August 18, 2006 By Leave a Comment
As I already announced last week I started MySQL Performance Forums project focusing on MySQL Performance discussions as it names says. I spend planty of time replying questions and thought it would be good idea to provide weekly overviews of most interesting topic discussed. Here is the list for last week: Ways to perform full [...]
MySQL Performance Forums
August 10, 2006 By 16 Comments
I’m happy to announce availability of MySQL Performance Forums on MySQL Performance Blog. This forum is created as free alternative to MySQL Consulting Services which we provide. If you would like to get some free help to your performance issues please use forums so everyone else could benefit from our replies. You also should get [...]
Why MySQL could be slow with large tables ?
June 9, 2006 By 141 Comments
If you’ve been reading enough database related forums, mailing lists or blogs you probably heard complains about MySQL being unable to handle more than 1.000.000 (or select any other number) rows by some of the users. On other hand it is well known with customers like Google, Yahoo, LiveJournal,Technocarati MySQL has installations with many billions [...]
Presentations
May 3, 2006 By
This page is not updated anymore. For new presentations, please check the presentations page on our company website. We love speaking at conferences and other events. Please contact us if you’d like us to present at yours! We can also give internal presentations for your company or group. Sphinx search engine for RDBMS Egypt, December [...]
