June 20, 2013

Post: 10 years of MySQL User Conferences

MySQL Cluster and MySQL Press were announced during this event; “High Performance MySQL” 1st edition written by Jeremy and Derek was also available. MySQL… from Maria (storage engine) to MariaDB (complete MySQL replacement). There is a lot of “MySQL Community” focused keynotes. Good coverage of MySQL

Post: Monty unviels Maria and starts Blogging

… announces Maria – the MyISAM successor storage engine he has been working for last few years. You can now get Maria from MySQL BitKeeper… people with Maria problems – things he was also great with. It is still unclear how Maria will be integrated with MySQL (what version… convenient in practice. I will not say anything about performance of Maria because performance is not the main goal of this release and…

Post: Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013: The talks I want to see

… might look like. Using MySQL Performance Schema to debug performance issues - (Zburivsky Danil, Pythian) – I haven’t explored the performance_schema very much yet… about Maria, and since Perl is a native language to me, this seems compelling. Managing data and data archiving using MySQL 5…

Post: MySQL Northern European Customer Conference

… were publicly announced before. Somewhere in 6.x series proper performance monitoring instrumentation and semi-synchronous replication is promised together with… closer view at. There is also not much told about Maria (aka MyISAM++) in product road map presentation, so I guess… dealing with High Performance. Though I’d really like them to see to have some work done outside of MySQL Cluster – for…

Post: The tool I've been waiting for years

… which cache everything in their own cache memory – Innodb, Falcon, Maria. Having information about how large portion of table is cached… it can’t perform direct IO to log files on Linux because it is not aligned. [root@DB01 mysql]# du -h ibdata… logs]# du -h performance_log_080319.MYD 229M performance_log_080319.MYD [root@DB01 logs]# perl /tmp/fincore –justsummarize performance_log_080319.MYD…

Comment: Open Development vs Making a Big Splash

I did not claim that PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA had been in development for years, what I said …€™s one of the commits for the Maria instrumentation late last year: http://lists.mysql.com/commits/56225 They’ve all been… way towards a more open development model. Picking on the PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA is a poor show, it was a kind of…

Comment: Another scalability fix in XtraDB

… they? My take on any unfinished code — InnoDB, Falcon, PBXT, MySQL, Maria, even Maatkit — is this: don’t pin your hopes on…, multiplied by what economic factors (initial purchase price, performance per dollar thereafter, performance per watt…) are you looking at? Multiply that over…

Post: Open Development vs Making a Big Splash

… exactly how Innodb Plugin was released last year or MySQL 5.4 performance improvements this year. Community did not know about them… splash which seems to be planned later this year is “Performance Schema” – which is in development for years as this post… from very early days. I should praise Monty for having Maria storage engine tree available from its early and buggy days…

Post: Report from OSCON 2008

… the conference is not as much backend and high performance focused as MySQL Conference or even Velocity, though this year there are… effort to implement right – without sacrificing speed or flexibility. The MySQL presence on this conference was also very interesting. There was… outside – the Drizzle – MySQL “community fork” was surely the biggest splash on the conference around MySQL. Monty’s Maria storage engine was only…

Comment: MariaDB 5.3 is released as GA!

Jan: The real MariaDB repository is on Launchpad at lp:maria. The git repository you mention must be a copy maintained…’t see the problem distros have with the MySQL model. Contrary to common belief MySQL maintenance releases have never included new features… patch security issues whereas MySQL also fixes non-security bugs like server crash, wrong result or just performance regressions. From my point…