… to assert that XFS is the way to go for MySQL, but I’m not sure how frequently they benchmark XFS… ext4: http://blog.tsunanet.net/2011/09/ext4-2x-faster-than-xfs.html So we built all our MySQL DBs with ext4… instead of btrfs, and his feedback was that some recent developments in the XFS world have greatly enhanced the metadata performance…
Post: MariaDB 5.3 is released as GA!
March 5, 2012 By 17 Comments
… meeting last week, so we are a little slow to blog about this and acknowledge the great work that has gone… as a first-class member of the MySQL family of databases. Finally, High Performance MySQL, Third Edition mentions MariaDB in many places… is a great development for MySQL users. Users now have more choice than ever — there are three great versions of MySQL that suit…
Comment: MariaDB 5.3 is released as GA!
March 6, 2012 By 17 Comments
… not supposed to say anything negative of MariaDB or its developers, or even the entire userbase as a whole, but just… ignorant group is something like: * MariaDB is the new MySQL * Oracle’s MySQL is completely closed source or at least will be… obviously such a person would not be reading your blog or planet mysql. (So you can’t do much to educate them…
Post: An update on Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2012
November 30, 2011 By 2 Comments
…, please do. Tell your friends; put promotional banners on your blog; and most of all, help us get great session proposals… they can benefit MySQL users. And I think we always just relied on a cadre of the core MySQL developers to submit talks about what is new in MySQL, the MySQL roadmap for the future, and…
Post: MySQL Performance Blog now uses Sphinx for Site Search
February 15, 2008 By 52 Comments
… on MySQL Performance Blog. Today we have published new search functionality for our site which is based on Sphinx. We have developed it… for fun and for SEO. Hope this addition will make MySQL Performance Blog more useful for you. UPDATE: For those looking to…
Post: How Percona Develops Open-Source Software
January 9, 2009 By 4 Comments
… functionality for MySQL. We have a team of dedicated MySQL developers working on the server and on ExtraDB, and a dedicated Maatkit developer. Other… not released yet. The general public. People comment on our blog posts, or send us email, and so forth. We notice… working for a profit — part of our business is custom MySQL development, after all — but we discount it. The second way is…
Page: About This Blog
May 3, 2006 By 48 Comments
… for bottlenecks and helps Development team to fix them. We also work with MySQL partners helping them to ensuree MySQL performs best with… our company team page. We have published biographies of other MySQL Performance Blog contributers at Percona Team Page
Post: Using MySQL as a Queue, and Free Percona Live Tickets
September 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
… guest post over on the Engine Yard blog: 5 subtle ways you’re using MySQL as a queue, and why it’ll… not to create one inside MySQL. Although the job queue is a great design pattern from the developer’s point of view… up in unexpected ways, even if you’re a seasoned developer. » read more
Post: MySQL Life Cycle. Your Feedback is needed.
November 18, 2011 By 6 Comments
… web. Since that time I matured and so did MySQL ecosystem. MySQL is powering a lot more demanding and business critical applications… applications which have not been actively developed recently are also more likely to run on old MySQL release which is understandable as… Open Source software Percona develops. I would appreciate your feedback on this matter either as comments to this blog posts or as…
Post: MySQL Limitations Part 4: One thread per connection
October 27, 2010 By 14 Comments
… the way MySQL handles connections, allocating one thread per connection to the server. MySQL is a…that wasn’t always the case. However, many development environments and programming languages really want a …are more details in this blog post by Mark, and two followup blog posts from Tim Cook (1…
