…: “It is now over three years since Oracle acquired MySQL along with Sun Microsystems. Fears for the open source database’s survival…, Oracle Topic: “MySQL 5.6: What’s New in InnoDB” Dmitri Kravtchuk, MySQL Performance Architect, Oracle Topic: “MySQL 5.6: Performance Benchmarks, Tuning, and…
Post: Keynotes, BOFs, and the Community Networking Reception at Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo
April 15, 2013 By 1 Comment
Post: New SpecJAppServer results at MySQL and Sun.
November 12, 2008 By Leave a Comment
… running PostgreSQL instead of MySQL or having Sun box replaced with comparable Dell or HP box. Unfortunately such benchmarks are more about marketing… for benchmark specs. But what really surises me here is why not ZFS ? The ZFS MySQL success story is all over across Sun‘s blogs, so why benchmarks are still run on UFS…
Post: A piece of Sun/MySQL Marketing
February 27, 2008 By 7 Comments
… Sun and MySQL and among other things – These Benchmarks This may be great piece of Benchmarks for Sales and Marketing needs as they show sun… high performance Web apps which I have no doubt these benchmarks would be shown as. Another funny thing is even though… CPU power which what this benchmark tends to compare. My advice to someone looking at marketing benchmarks would be to examine issues…
Post: MySQL and PostgreSQL SpecJAppServer benchmark results
July 25, 2007 By 13 Comments
… hardware is different – MySQL benchmark use Sun Fire X4100 available in Nov 2005 using Opteron 285 CPU, PostgreSQL benchmarks use Sun Fire X4200 M2 available… on published SpecJAppServer benchmark while still working for MySQL I remember we spot number of issues in MySQL exposed by this benchmark with only…
Post: Another ingenious piece of Sun Marketing
March 20, 2009 By 20 Comments
… mail from Sun/MySQL employees which tended to agree with me on this being the a large stretch. I would hope Sun/MySQL would tone it down and actually spend time on making things to scale inside MySQL rather than asking… my old post about T2000 performance with Sun comments about Sun not pushing this as scalable MySQL platform. Well this is T5440 now…
Post: Watch out for Marketing benchmarks
August 23, 2006 By 7 Comments
… see ? Out of all MySQL 4.1 vs 5.0 benchmarks which were done only benchmarks which show MySQL 5.0 is faster were selected and bunch of other benchmarks which show… bit different configurations, or Sun would not publish SpecJAppServer benchmarks on absolutely same configuration. Looking at any benchmarks also make sure to check…
Post: MySQL SpecJAppServer2004 results
May 27, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Sun has now published SpecJAppServer2004 benchmark results with MySQL. The results are pretty good as we can see and … Chen published good MySQL Tuning writeup so I would not repeat it. It was great colaboration between Sun and MySQL teams which allowed…
Post: SysBench - benchmark tool
August 18, 2006 By 20 Comments
Sysbench is benchmark developed by Alexey Kopytov (software engineer @ MySQL AB) – http://sysbench.sourceforge.net/ and I want to write … is one of software for my everyday use. For example, SUN published their Solaris vs RedHat stuff based on sysbench’s… servers – I will write about in further notes. Regarding database benchmarks – in 0.4.7 and earlier versions Sysbench supported only…
Post: Looking on 5.4 - IO bound benchmarks
April 30, 2009 By 5 Comments
… (it is also being update with my next CPU benchmarks, and benchmark on SSD & FusionIO), also I post graph there: … minute, more is better). So I can confirm that MySQL team did great job with 5.4 and it … you can find on Dimitri’s blog, one of Sun Performance Engineers. From our side we will look on …
Post: T2000 CPU Performance - Watch out
May 1, 2008 By 12 Comments
…mysql> select benchmark(100000000,1+2); +————————–+ | benchmark(100000000,1+2) | +————————–+ | 0 | +————————–+ 1 row in set (1.50 sec) # T2000 mysql> select benchmark(100000000,1+2); +————————–+ | benchmark…I’m hearing Sun is working…
