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Benchmarking Percona Server TokuDB vs InnoDB

May 7, 2013 By Vadim Tkachenko 32 Comments

After compiling Percona Server with TokuDB, of course I wanted to compare InnoDB performance vs TokuDB. I have a particular workload I’m interested in testing – it is an insert-intensive workload (which is TokuDB’s strong suit) with some roll-up aggregation, which should produce updates in-place (I will use INSERT .. ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE statements [...]

Filed Under: Benchmarks, MySQL, Percona Server Tagged With: Benchmarking, InnoDB, Percona Server, TokuDB

MySQL 5.6 vs MySQL 5.5 and the Star Schema Benchmark

March 11, 2013 By Justin Swanhart 7 Comments

So far most of the benchmarks posted about MySQL 5.6 use the sysbench OLTP workload. I wanted to test a set of queries which, unlike sysbench, utilize joins. I also wanted an easily reproducible set of data which is more rich than the simple sysbench table. The Star Schema Benchmark (SSB) seems ideal for this. [...]

Filed Under: MySQL Tagged With: InnoDB plugin, Justin Swanhart, MySQL 5.5, MySQL 5.6, Star Schema Benchmark (SSB), sysbench

InnoDB Full-text Search in MySQL 5.6 (part 1)

February 26, 2013 By Ernie Souhrada 1 Comment

I’ve never been a very big fan of MyISAM; I would argue that in most situations, any possible advantages to using MyISAM are far outweighed by the potential disadvantages and the strengths of InnoDB. However, up until MySQL 5.6, MyISAM was the only storage engine with support for full-text search (FTS). And I’ve encountered many [...]

Filed Under: Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL Tagged With: Ernie Souhrada, FTS, FullText Search, InnoDB, MyISAM, MySQL 5.6

The Optimization That (Often) Isn’t: Index Merge Intersection

December 14, 2012 By Ernie Souhrada 6 Comments

Prior to version 5.0, MySQL could only use one index per table in a given query without any exceptions; folks that didn’t understand this limitation would often have tables with lots of single-column indexes on columns which commonly appeared in their WHERE clauses, and they’d wonder why the EXPLAIN plan for a given SELECT would [...]

Filed Under: Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL

Minimizing Downtime from Lengthy AWS Outages

October 24, 2012 By Mike Benshoof 6 Comments

Well, it happened again… Another lengthy EBS outage in the US-East region impacted several sites across the net. While failures like this are rare, they can be quite costly and translate into headaches for the operations team when impact production systems for any length of time. At Percona, we routinely help clients architect and deploy [...]

Filed Under: Cloud and NoSQL, MySQL

When is MIN(DATE) != MIN(DATE) ?

September 4, 2012 By Ernie Souhrada 5 Comments

Inspiration for this post is courtesy of a friend and former colleague of mine, Greg Youngblood, who pinged me last week with an interesting MySQL puzzle. He was running Percona Server 5.5.21 with a table structure that looks something like this:

CREATE TABLE foo (
 id INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
 uid INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
 update_time DATETIME NOT NULL,
 ....
 INDEX `uid` (uid, update_time),
 INDEX `bar` (some_other_columns)
 ....
) ENGINE=InnoDB;

CREATE TABLE foo (

id INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,

uid INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL,

update_time DATETIME NOT NULL,

....

INDEX `uid` (uid, update_time),

INDEX `bar` (some_other_columns)

....

) ENGINE=InnoDB;

When he ran this query:

SELECT MIN(update_time) FROM foo WHERE update_time IS NOT NULL AND update_time <> '0000-00-00 00:00:00';

1	SELECT MIN(update_time) FROM foo WHERE update_time IS NOT NULL AND update_time <> '0000-00-00 00:00:00';

The result came back as 2012-06-22 10:28:16. [...]

Filed Under: Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL

DROP TABLE and stalls: Lazy Drop Table in Percona Server and the new fixes in MySQL

June 22, 2012 By Ovais Tariq 33 Comments

Suppose you have turned on innodb_file_per_table (which means that each table has its own tablespace), and you have to drop tables in a background every hour or every day. If its once every day then you can probably schedule the table dropping process to run during off-peak hours. But I have seen cases where the [...]

Filed Under: Benchmarks, Insight for DBAs, MySQL

A case for MariaDB’s Hash Joins

May 31, 2012 By Ovais Tariq Leave a Comment

MariaDB 5.3/5.5 has introduced a new join type “Hash Joins” which is an implementation of a Classic Block-based Hash Join Algorithm. In this post we will see what the Hash Join is, how it works and for what types of queries would it be the right choice. I will show the results of executing benchmarks [...]

Filed Under: Benchmarks, Insight for DBAs, MySQL Tagged With: batched key access, block nested loop, hash join, JOIN Performance, MariaDB, Performance

Percona testing: Quick test clusters with kewpie!

January 13, 2012 By patrick.crews Leave a Comment

The announcement of Percona XtraDB Cluster seems to have generated a fair bit of interest : ) Although the documentation contains more formal instructions for setting up a test cluster, I wanted to share a quick way to set up an ad-hoc cluster on a single machine to help people play with this (imho) rather [...]

Filed Under: Benchmarks, MySQL

Side load may massively impact your MySQL Performance

November 13, 2011 By Peter Zaitsev 7 Comments

When we’re looking at benchmarks we typically run some stable workload and we run it in isolation – nothing else is happening on the system. This is not however how things happen in real world when we have significant variance in the load and many things can be happening concurrently. It is very typical to [...]

Filed Under: Benchmarks, Insight for DBAs, MySQL

Benchmarking Percona Server TokuDB vs InnoDB

MySQL 5.6 vs MySQL 5.5 and the Star Schema Benchmark

InnoDB Full-text Search in MySQL 5.6 (part 1)

The Optimization That (Often) Isn’t: Index Merge Intersection

Minimizing Downtime from Lengthy AWS Outages

When is MIN(DATE) != MIN(DATE) ?

DROP TABLE and stalls: Lazy Drop Table in Percona Server and the new fixes in MySQL

A case for MariaDB’s Hash Joins

Percona testing: Quick test clusters with kewpie!

Side load may massively impact your MySQL Performance

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