For large number of online applications once you implemented proper sharding you can consider your scaling problems solved – by getting more and more hardware you can grow. As I recently wrote it however does not mean it is the most optimal way by itself to do things. The “classical” sharding involves partitioning by user_id,site_id [...]
MySQL Blob Compression performance benefits
January 11, 2008 By 17 Comments
When you’re storing text of significant size in the table it often makes sense to keep it compressed. Unfortunately MySQL does not provide compressed BLOB/TEXT columns (I would really love to have COMPRESSED attribute for the BLOB/TEXT columns which would make them transparently compressed) but you well can do it yourself by using COMPRESS/UNCOMPRESS functions [...]
MySQL Users Conference Presentation Proposals
October 24, 2007 By 12 Comments
OK, I am not getting too much people feedback on what would they like to hear about on MySQL Users Conference, so I went ahead and submitted few presentation ideas. I do not expect all of them would be accepted, furthermore it would be hard to prepare so many good presentations if they are so [...]
Progress with ClickAider project
October 24, 2007 By 21 Comments
About three months ago I announced ClickAider to become available to general public. And I think it is about the time to write about the progress we have with this project for those who interested. The project generates decent interest and we have about 3000 sites Registered over this time, which I consider decent number [...]
Possible optimization for sort_merge and UNION ORDER BY LIMIT
September 18, 2007 By 10 Comments
Every so often you need to perform sort results retrieved from MySQL when your WHERE clause goes beyound col=const values which would allow MySQL to still use second portion of the index for the order by. Ranges as well as IN lists make this optimization impossible, not even speaking about index merge optimization. Lets look [...]
Implementing efficient counters with MySQL
July 1, 2007 By 16 Comments
On many web sites you would see a counter how many time given object – blog post, forum thread, image, movie etc was viewed. This is sometimes handy feature but it can be rather expensive from performance point of view. The nasty thing with counters as they are implemented the most trivial way – they [...]
RAID and Scale Out Discussions
June 12, 2007 By 3 Comments
Just found this wonderful summary of articles by Jeremy and wanted to give some of my thoughts on the topic. First lets speak about death of the RAID. I think this is far from the case especially if you consider Software RAID here. For many workloads you would like to get RAID just for the [...]
Is it query which needs to be optimized ?
March 6, 2007 By 9 Comments
Last few days I had a lot of a lot of questions at MySQL Performance Forum as well as from our customers regarding query optimization… which had one thing in common – It is not query which needed to be optimized. Way too frequently people design schema first and then think how the queries they [...]
MySQL Consulting – Being on your own
February 20, 2007 By 7 Comments
About half a year have passed since me and Vadim have left MySQL to do MySQL Consulting on our own. Bunch of people have been wondering about our experiences so I thought it would be worth to share it here.
Getting use of Slave in MySQL Replication
February 14, 2007 By 15 Comments
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 [...]
