June 19, 2013

Comment: MariaDB 5.3.4 benchmarks

… benchmarks. I think it is fair to compare MySQL 5.5.20 to MariaDB 5.3.4 as these are real choices people care… concurrency MySQL 5.5 provides or do you want Optimizer Changes MariaDB team developed ? If your workload is simple (sysbench like) MySQL 5.5 would… ready for MySQL 5.6 already might be a good idea – over 1 year wait for MariaDB based on MySQL 5.5 code base…

Comment: MariaDB 5.3.4 benchmarks

… Davi Arnaut. MariaDB 5.3 uses XtraDB engine which scales pretty well in both 5.1 and 5.5. Now about fairness: MariaDB 5.3 is RC for the next production ready MariaDB‘s flagship database… we compare the future MariaDB with the current MySQL 5.5, and probably more fair would be to compare MariaDB 5.3 vs MySQL 5.6.

Post: Product to try: MySQL/MariaDB-Galera 0.8

….8 comes with many nice features: Works with MySQL 5.1 and MariaDB 5.1. The latest is more interesting for us, as… add support for Percona XtraBackup to propagate nodes. Why MySQL/MariaDB + Galera 0.8 is interesting? It allows to solve following… have uniform servers across the cluster. From my experiments with MariaDB/Galera 0.8 I have one serious feature request for…

Post: Using MySQL Sandbox with Percona Server

… you to maintain many different versions of MySQL, Percona Server, MariaDB. If you’re just working with single sandbox you can… $HOME/sandboxes/msb_5_5_29 However if you want to have multiple Sandboxes for MySQL, Percona Server, MariaDB sharing the the same… if you’re having multiple sandboxes for MySQL, Percona Server, MariaDB of the same version, however you do not need to…

Post: Thank you for joining us at Percona Live, NYC 2012

… for deploying and managing MySQL in the Cloud. MariaDB have showcased MariaDB 5.5 and forthcoming MariaDB 10 Alpha release. The Cassandra storage engine is… you might guess. Tokutek have been talking about TokuDB 6.5 – the newest release of TokuDB storage engine. It was great… replication, filtering, cross database replication. It feature set beats MySQL 5.6 but as Robert Hodges puts it , “it works with…

Comment: MariaDB 5.3.4 benchmarks

MariaDB 5.3.4 runs ontop XtraDB 1.0.17-13.0 … 5.1. So indeed MySQL 5.1 or Percona Server 5.1.59-13.0 would be proper targets for a comparison with MariaDB 5.3.4. As pointed out by Peter, sysbench runs simple queries only where MariaDB cannot demonstrate any…

Post: Percona Toolkit 2.1.9 is ready

…-schema-change fails with “Duplicate entry” on MariaDB MariaDB 5.5.28 (https://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-5528-changelog/) fixed a bug: “Added warnings… entry errors by using “INSERT IGNORE”, it now handles the MariaDB case by also ignoring duplicate entry errors in the code…

Post: Announcing Percona Server for MySQL version 5.5.29-30.0

… Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.29, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.29-30.0 is now… found in the 5.5.29-30.0 milestone at Launchpad. New Features: Ported the Thread Pool patch from MariaDB. This feature enables… the Valgrind instrumentation enabled. Bugs Fixed: Ported a fix from MariaDB for the upstream bug #67974, which caused server crash on…

Post: Announcing Percona Server 5.5.28-29.3

… Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.28, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.28-29.3 is now… SQL injection like vulnerabilities. This bug fix comes originally from MariaDB (see MDEV-382). Bug fixed #1049871 (Vlad Lesin). Fixed the… the GRANT FILE command. This bug fix comes originally from MariaDB (see MDEV-3884). Bug fixed #1083377 (Vlad Lesin). Rows_read…

Comment: Percona Server vs MySQL on Intel 320 SSD

… blog, 5.1 and 5.5 performed almost the same. It sounds to be correct, since MariaDB+vanilla Innodb (both based on 5.1 codebase) performed well 256 concurrent clients, only a slightly behind MySQL5.5 On the other hand, everything based on XtraDB (PerconaServer 5.1, MariaDB+XtraDB) showed quite a slowdown…