… benchmarked Virident a while ago (http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2010/06/15/virident-tachion-new-player-on-flash-pci-e-cards-market…
Post: Watch out for Marketing benchmarks
August 23, 2006 By 7 Comments
… benchmark results I try to understand if it is technical benchmark – made by people seeking the truth or it is done by Marketing department to wash your brains. Watch out. Whenever you treat marketing benchmarks as technical ones, you make make wrong decision. Take a look at MySQL 5.0 Benchmarks Whitepaper and guess…
Post: A piece of Sun/MySQL Marketing
February 27, 2008 By 7 Comments
… and among other things – These Benchmarks This may be great piece of Benchmarks for Sales and Marketing needs as they show sun stuff… high performance Web apps which I have no doubt these benchmarks would be shown as. Another funny thing is even though… close CPU power which what this benchmark tends to compare. My advice to someone looking at marketing benchmarks would be to examine issues…
Post: Virident tachIOn: New player on Flash PCI-E cards market
June 15, 2010 By 19 Comments
… monopoly, and it will finally bring some competition to the market, which I believe is good for the end users. I… to most interesting part – performance numbers. I took sysbench fileio benchmark with 16KB blocksize to see what maximal performance we can… to have aligned IO requests) and mounted with nobarrier option Benchmark: sysbench fileio on 100GB file, 16KB blocksize The raw results…
Post: On Benchmarks on SSD
July 14, 2010 By 4 Comments
… of the card during benchmark. However it makes task of running benchmark on SSD trickier. It is similar to benchmarks on database but… should make sure you have it in your benchmark. As we speak about benchmark results, there is another trick from vendors, I… in fresh state A). As SSD market involving, we will see more and more the benchmark results, so be ready to read…
Post: XtraDB in CPU-bound benchmark
December 18, 2008 By Leave a Comment
… http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2008/12/18/xtradb-benchmarks-15x-gain/ are too marketing, and we should show other results also. Here…,or it would be more correctly to say in-cache benchmark, because there is a lot of CPU remains idle. This… has BBU installed. Other is simply properties of TPC-C benchmark which is rather lock intensive and may not be able…
Post: Another ingenious piece of Sun Marketing
March 20, 2009 By 20 Comments
… performance, but sure enough writing code is harder than writing marketing materials so this work now made it to the Sun…
Post: Review of Virident FlashMAX MLC cards
November 10, 2011 By 14 Comments
… I will discuss: Because Virident has competition in the SSD market, they have stated their goals to distinguish themselves from their…. To compare performances I ran sysbench oltp and tpcc-mysql benchmarks. I will present the results for sysbench oltp (with full… adequately fill both cards in comparison. Some hardware used in benchmarks include: Server: Cisco UCS C250, running Oracle Linux 6.1…
Post: All thouse new MySQL Storage Engines
April 17, 2008 By 8 Comments
… them showing benchmarks with great numbers and glossy marketing materials explaining why they are better. I’ve seen enough of marketing benchmarks at my life to really believe them. Marketing benchmarks typically…
Post: New SpecJAppServer results at MySQL and Sun.
November 12, 2008 By Leave a Comment
… replaced with comparable Dell or HP box. Unfortunately such benchmarks are more about marketing then fair technical comparison and we, technical people… innodb_flush_method = O_DIRECT First the options are somethat benchmark optimized – for example doublewrite is disabled; checksums are disabled; binary…
