It looks like it looks like there are going a lot of discussions about future of MySQL Community Binaries, see for example this post and Kaj’s clarifications. Obviously now it grew to a lot of speculations and many comments are far from real story. It is also really interesting to watch MySQL try to balance [...]
Binaries of MySQL 5.0.33 Community release for AMD64 / EM64T
January 12, 2007 By 37 Comments
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 [...]
Where to get recent MySQL version ?
December 29, 2006 By 86 Comments
As you might noticed there are no recent MySQL Community versions available for download from MySQL Download Area This applies both to binaries (which is expected with new polices) but also to the source files which were promised to be available. So what is if you would like to use recent MySQL code while staying [...]
Interesting MySQL and PostgreSQL Benchmarks
November 30, 2006 By 20 Comments
I had found pile of MySQL and PostgreSQL benchmarks on various platforms which I have not seen before. Very interesting reading. It does not share too much information about how MySQL or PostgreSQL was configured or about queries. Furthermore MySQL and PostgreSQL has a bit different implementations (ie SubQueries avoided for MySQL) so do not [...]
MyISAM mmap feature (5.1)
May 26, 2006 By 10 Comments
As you know MyISAM does not cache data, only indexes. MyISAM assumes OS cache is good enough and uses pread/pwrite system calls for reading/writing datafiles. However OS is not always good in this task, my benchmarks show Linux/Solaris aren’t scalable on intensive pread calls (I believe the same for Windows, but I did not test [...]
