Hi Baron, Your first paper – Forecasting MySQL Scalability with the Universal Scalability Law was really very interesting. I actually read it first, …? I got to see you gave one session on – Extracting Scalability and Performance Metrics from TCP Traffic in Surge Conference 2011…
Post: MariaDB 5.3 is released as GA!
March 5, 2012 By 17 Comments
… as a first-class member of the MySQL family of databases. Finally, High Performance MySQL, Third Edition mentions MariaDB in many places… cache for improved scalability That’s really just a sampling. A good starting point for learning more is the MySQL versus MariaDB… Oracle has made to the MySQL 5.5 release. This should help MariaDB be faster and more scalable, as well as adding…
Post: Announcement of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.20 GA release
April 3, 2012 By 10 Comments
… Cluster. Percona XtraDB Cluster is a High Availability and Scalability solution for MySQL Users and is based on Percona Server 5.5… talks: Tutorial on PL MySQL Conference Galera Synchronous Multi-Master Replication for MySQL. My talk on PL MySQL Conference Percona XtraDB Cluster: New…: Data compatibility. Percona XtraDB Cluster works with databases created in MySQL / Percona Server Application compatibility. There is no or minimal application…
Post: Diamond Keynote Panel, BOFs, Lightning Talks, and McAfee and AOL Sponsorships
April 2, 2012 By 1 Comment
… entitled “Future Perfect: The Road Ahead for MySQL” which will feature a panel of MySQL industry leaders, including: Sundar Raghavan, director product… some quality face time. Topics include “Query Optimization”, “MySQL and Ruby on Rails”, “MySQL in the Cloud”, and much more. We also…”, “How to Design a Scalable System”, and “How to Become a Rockstar DBA”. The Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo promises to…
Post: Percona Toolkit 2.1 with New Online Schema Change Tool
April 5, 2012 By 9 Comments
…. Percona Toolkit is the essential suite of administrative tools for MySQL. With this release we introduce a new version of pt… tool, one of the most painful things anyone experiences with MySQL is significantly alleviated. If you’ve ever delayed a project… upgrades I’ll show how to use it to forecast scalability and performance The new Percona Toolkit release is available for…
Post: Percona is Speaking At Open Source Data Center Conference in Nuremberg, Germany
April 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
… hot backups with XtraBackup by Alexey Kopytov – Expert Troubleshooting: Resolving MySQL Problems Quickly by Kenny Gryp Feel free to come and… divided into the three sessions, „Devops and Methods“, „Databases“ and „Scalability and Infrastructure“ and thus provides the latest know-how for…
Post: Percona white paper: Forecasting MySQL Scalability
November 16, 2010 By 6 Comments
… have just published Percona’s latest white paper, Forecasting MySQL Scalability with the Universal Scalability Law. This is essentially a streamlined walk-through… metrics can provide amazingly rich insight into system performance and scalability, in combination with Little’s Law and queueing theory. These…
Post: MySQL Scalability for Facebook Application Developers
July 5, 2009 By 3 Comments
… of FbFund educational seminars I will give a talk on MySQL Scalability for Facebook Application Developers. We have been working with number…
Post: MySQL/Innodb scalability tests after fix
January 3, 2007 By 1 Comment
… something obvious in MySQL settings as well as to let them know the fix is now out for Innodb scalability bug and they can rerun the test to see if there are any difference. Recently Tweakers.net published comparison of MySQL… and will be different in other benchmarks) we can see MySQL scalability problem with high number of CPUs and high concurrency is…
Post: Scaling problems still exist in MySQL 5.5 and Percona Server 5.5
May 20, 2011 By 11 Comments
MySQL 5.5 and Percona Server 5.5 do not solve all scalability problems even for read only workloads. Workloads which got…. This is why it is important to test performance and scalability for your application on your hardware if you really want… 12 physical cores and 24 threads, which is almost perfect scalability. So there are workloads where the problem is solved and…
