… of MySQL features were implemented in marketing rush being hacks over architecture which was not intended to support it. Remember early MySQL versions… by majority of users. This was even the early Marketing strategy for MySQL. Marten used to frequently say Oracle is Overkill for… just marketing. Innodb/Oracle relationship complexities. If the bug happen to affect Innodb things become even more complicated slow. Even though MySQL…
Post: Intel Woodcrest vs AMD Opteron for MySQL
June 8, 2006 By 9 Comments
… it looks like increasing frequency was the main goal. Possibly marketing thought in peoples mind frequency is what defines performance. No… Rank” rather than true frequency tricked people. Also with Server market this did not work as well as these are bought… article also has very interesting observation on MySQL Multiple CPU scalability . As you can see MySQL could be slower on Linux with…
Post: Virident tachIOn: New player on Flash PCI-E cards market
June 15, 2010 By 19 Comments
… that time, it was just a guess, as PCI-E market is really attractive so FusionIO can’t stay alone for… monopoly, and it will finally bring some competition to the market, which I believe is good for the end users. I… writes performance (important in question for log related activity in MySQL) I am looking forward to present results in sysbench oltp…
Post: MySQL 5.1 went to GA. Was it a good move ?
December 10, 2008 By 4 Comments
… I think MySQL 5.1 Quality Stands ? I’ve been MySQL user for years since version 3.22 and when MySQL 3.23… in this case MySQL of course minds its commercial interests more than follows community sentiments – in commercial software market there is usually… transfered to MySQL too. As a Summary I think this was inevitable MySQL 5.1 will be released for commercial/marketing reasons, not…
Post: MySQL - to use or not to use
May 28, 2007 By 10 Comments
… see zero “meat” – mostly using of marketing materials. This applies both to pro-MySQL and against-MySQL articles. The funniest argument for me… yes I know, it comes from the point of view market old timers try to show the value of their technology… articles speaking about MySQL for Enterprises speaking about MySQL with full pack of services from MySQL AB. Obviously this is how MySQL AB wants…
Post: High-Performance Click Analysis with MySQL
December 22, 2008 By 13 Comments
… of customers who do click analysis, site analytics, search engine marketing, online advertising, user behavior analysis, and many similar types of… familiar for me to use the example of search engine marketing. I’ll do that throughout this article. Requirements The words… save that work by either using MySQL 5.1′s row-based replication, or in MySQL 5.0 and earlier, doing the…
Post: MySQL Public Worklog and Community Focus
March 25, 2008 By 6 Comments
… to those small little convenience things – MySQL was on the road to take over enterprise market and all resources were focused on… hand Sun being serious player on Enterprise market may demand even more Enterprise features from MySQL as well as making current features… one of the ways you can help MySQL to understand what you need from MySQL and I would encourage you to surely…
Post: Working on "High Performance MySQL, Second Edition", how you can help?
August 31, 2007 By 20 Comments
… on major rewrite of High Performance MySQL book – the most famous book about MySQL Performance on the market… which is getting old though… on MySQL Performance topic to the market. Me and Vadim have great internals insight and a lot of practical experience in MySQL Scaling… angle plus being author of large amount of popular MySQL tools such as MySQL Toolkit he is surely the man for the…
Post: Another ingenious piece of Sun Marketing
March 20, 2009 By 20 Comments
So a while ago I wrote about fun post about MySQL Scalability to 256 way…. Besides discussion on the thread itself… on making things to scale inside MySQL rather than asking you to run tens of MySQL instances to get reasonable performance, but sure enough writing code is harder than writing marketing materials so this…
Post: MySQL Sizing questions
June 23, 2006 By 4 Comments
… questions demand the answer. It could be internal Sales and Marketing people or even customers saying they typically get the answers… correct at least to the order of magnitude. Seriously in MySQL Consulting practice it would not be exception to have 1… it does not make it is used by Sales and Marketing forces in many companies because it looks good. Also Big…
