May 24, 2013

MySQL – to use or not to use

Reading this slashdot article today and two CIO magazine articles linked from it. Such discussions started at right place at right time always attract a lot of flamers and can be fun to read. What hit me this time is quality of the articles in CIO magazine. If this is what managers suppose to use [...]

MySQL Releases first real Community Release

Few days ago MySQL released MySQL 5.0.37 which I would call first real Community Version, because unlike previous versions which were released from the same source tree as Enterprise MySQL this one has some community features added, which is great. Also over last half a year MySQL seems to have organized resources for Community Engineering [...]

Binaries of MySQL 5.0.33 Community release for AMD64 / EM64T

Update 3 June 2008: We have removed the builds below, since they are quite obsolete and no one has posted comments about them since more than a year ago. Great news are MySQL finally released new Community release – MySQL 5.0.33, which however as promised comes without Binaries. This version also does not have any [...]

InnoDB vs MyISAM vs Falcon benchmarks – part 1

Several days ago MySQL AB made new storage engine Falcon available for wide auditory. We cannot miss this event and executed several benchmarks to see how Falcon performs in comparison to InnoDB and MyISAM. The second goal of benchmark was a popular myth that MyISAM is faster than InnoDB in reads, as InnoDB is transactional, [...]

InnoDB benchmarks

There was several changes in InnoDB to fix scalabilty problems, so I ran benchmark to check new results and also compare overall performance of InnoDB in 5.0 and 5.1 before and after fixes. Problems in InnoDB that were fixed: Thread trashing issues with count of theads 100+. In this case performance of InnoDB degraded dramatically. [...]