… post I compared MySQL 5.5.30 to MySQL 5.6.10, both with default settings using only the InnoDB storage engine. In my testing… [mysqld] datadir=/mnt/mysql56/data basedir=/usr/local/mysql socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock user=justin innodb_buffer_pool_size=64G innodb…=128k read_rnd_buffer_size=8M join_buffer_size=8M default_tmp_storage_engine=myisam tmpdir=/dev/shm innodb_undo_logs=32 innodb…
Post: Understanding the maximum number of columns in a MySQL table
… modular system where the storage engines themselves owned their own metadata. This was a radical departure from the MySQL philosophy, and one that… in MySQL, the defines can still found in the source. Basically, it’s why we can’t have nice things (like default… of columns you can create. If you try setting the storage engine to InnoDB however, you will get an error message! The…
Post: Virident vCache vs. FlashCache: Part 2
…storage configuration? After creating a vCache device with the default configuration, I started with a baseline HDD configuration for MySQL…percentile=95 \ –mysql-user=root –mysql-socket=/tmp/mysql.sock –mysql-table-engine=innodb \ –oltp-read-only=off run The base MySQL configuration …
Post: Ultimate MySQL variable and status reference list
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Post: MySQL Upgrade Webinar Questions Followup
… Innodb storage engine got dramatic performance improvements and is getting better in each new release. Also note the default storage engine changed to Innodb in MySQL 5.5, meaning you might need to set storage_engine=MYISAM if you’re…
Post: Should MySQL update the default innodb_log_file_size?
Now that InnoDB is the default storage engine in MySQL, is it time to update the default configuration for the InnoDB log file size (innodb…’t be left at their historical defaults for a production installation. MySQL 5.5 increased the default buffer pool size to something more… times two is okay as a default. What do you think? Write your suggestion for a default log file size into the…
Post: Shard-Query EC2 images available
… the demos, if you want to reload on your favorite storage engine or database About the cluster For best performance, there should….cnf [client] port=3306 socket=/tmp/mysql-inno.sock [mysqld] socket=/tmp/mysql-inno.sock default-storage-engine=INNODB innodb-buffer-pool-instances=2 innodb…
Post: MySQL Northern European Customer Conference
… will be default transactional storage engine in MySQL 6.0 – I did not truly understand if it will be recommended transactional storage engine or just default storage engine will switch from MyISAM to Falcon. It was rather interesting to hear a lot about features of new storage engines…
Post: Falcon Storage Engine Design Review
…been implemented outside of MySQL Storage Engine level for MySQL – reading rows in their physical order can be applied to most storage engines, it certainly can…about this feature, for example changing default value needs table rebuild even though for other storage engines it often could be done …
Post: Filtered MySQL Replication
… not a big fan of filtered or partial MySQL Replication (as of version MySQL 5.0) – there is enough gotchas with replication… when BLACKHOLE storage engine can come into the play. In the nutshell you can create intermediately slave which has BLACKHOLE as default-storage engine which…

