June 19, 2013

Comment: MySQL Quality of old and new features

… my opinion people who pay money for mySQL should be given piece of mind that mySQL itself will not cause data-corruption…! To feel confident that mySQL will not cause corruption is to release the fixes and use the community as the testing ground… Community (like fix the Optimizer, Grammer Parser, etc). People will pay for Enterprise if they want the speed and support, while the community

Post: How much overhead DRDB could cause ?

…file system and configuration) more synchronous IO operations – MySQL binary logs are not preallocated as Innodb…overhead can vary a lot depending on the speed of the disk subsystem and network. If… you should be looking at low latency network communications. It would be actually rather interesting to…

Comment: New MySQL Community Release Policies published

… the above article. Here are my criticisms. First of all, Community version will continue, but with some changes. Second, microsecond resolution… do agree partially with what you wrote on the speed with which MySQL accepts patches. But, believe it or not, new procedures…. In that way a paying customer gets more then community user. But community still gets a free software, which is also VERY…

Comment: Where to get recent MySQL version ?

community. MySQL is only as large as it is because of the user base. PostgreSQL has been around for many years with speed and functionality that MySQL is still attempting to achieve. Without the community MySQL would have never grown to the size it is today. This is something MySQL

Comment: MySQL wins C'T Database Contest

… postgre solution gets only 120 opm while mysql gets 3664 (even thou there are mysql results as low as 137 opm in… performance of below 50 posts/sec in indexing speed while it has now a speed of 300-350 posts/sec (or more…. An example is that in the perl api to communicate with mysql (DBI/DBD::mysql) there is not only one way to fire…

Comment: Air traffic queries in InfiniDB: early alpha

… the maximum amount of syntax for existing MySQL installations. We have observed that it performs … have seen even a 100x improvement in speed as opposed to LOAD DATA INFILE. cpimport separators…http://infinidb.org/resources/tech-articles/120-infinidb-community-edition-roadmap. This is one of our top…

Post: XtraDB storage engine release 1.0.3-7

Dear Community, Today we are announcing XtraDB release 7. This is the …. The release includes following new features: MySQL 5.1.37 as a base release speed hack for buf_flush_insert_sorted_into_flush_list controlled by the new variable innodb_fast_recovery Fixed bugs: MySQL

Post: Percona Server 5.1.50-rel12.1

Dear Community, Percona Server version 5.1.50-rel12.1 RC is … ”innodb_expand_export”. (Yasufumi Kinoshita) remove_eol_carret – Implemented a MySQL client option to handle end-of-line in BLOB fields… in the MySQL client. (Sasha Pachev) Bug #640924 – Fixed a crash caused by innodb_doublewrite_file. (Yasufumi Kinoshita) Bug #643650 – Speeded up…

Comment: MySQL and PostgreSQL SpecJAppServer benchmark results

… to sacrifice speed to get the reliability and flexibility of PostgreSQL. You just don’t have nearly the community support that MySQL has, and that is the one real advantage of MySQL. If you’re aware… go with pgsql then becomes pretty clear, at least while MySQL is stuck in 5.x.

Post: xtrabackup-0.9

Community, The release 0.9 of the opensource backup tool for …could not treat over 8GB file, now max 64GB prepare-speed-hack is added Fixed bugs: Bug #386179: “InnoDB: Error: …of the XtraBackup is available on http://www.percona.com/mysql/xtrabackup/0.9/. The project lives on Launchpad : https://…