June 20, 2013

Post: Open Source, the MySQL market (and TokuDB in particular)

May 10, 2013 By 13 Comments

… Monty Program – they have the Open Source product MariaDB with raising popularity. But as a business they failed to attract paying customers…, but not as many as we originally hoped for .. One problem we had was that we needed to prove that MariaDB… in addition to an Open Source product, you also need a business model that works. And be sure: the Open Source game is…

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Post: How Percona Develops Open-Source Software

January 9, 2009 By 4 Comments

…, if the work is open-source, we generally run this as a “less-for-profit” part of our business. I’ll clarify… version of the server. Customers pay us to solve their problems now. This means that one way or another, we’re… “yes” when we ask them to agree to open-source the features. Open-source is not a passing fad. It’s not…

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Post: Can having information public hurt consulting business ?

April 30, 2008 By 9 Comments

…background to quickly find right solution for the problem. We know extensive knowledge is important for complex … case surely having such instructions public can hurt business badly. In other cases value could be …it does not apply to the industry of Open Source software consulting we’re working on. …

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Post: Percona's Commitments to MySQL Users

November 5, 2010 By 10 Comments

… our business goals, and to our customers’ goals. And we think the best way to do that is by adhering to open… continue what we are doing: diagnose and solve the root problems our customers experience, and build new features to overcome limitations… advance MySQL and open-source software, including Oracle, and look forward to a bright and prosperous future for our businesses. Sincerely, The…

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Post: InnoDB Full-text Search in MySQL 5.6: Part 2, The Queries!

March 4, 2013 By 7 Comments

…: SELECT id, title, MATCH(title, body) AGAINST (‘arizona business records’ IN NATURAL LANGUAGE MODE) AS score FROM…a stopword, so does that account for our problem? It might, because the word ‘arizona’ appears in…you with this. These tools are free and open source, please use them. You, and your users…

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Post: MySQL Consulting - Being on your own

February 20, 2007 By 7 Comments

…enough lead generation for us to keep us very busy. You can work remotely Before leaving MySQL I …things may cause a problems. People are scarce We also seems to have the same problem as everybody else who…we rather would not disclose for now. In the Open Source area we work on Sphinx Search as …

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Post: MySQL and Sun - Oportunity for smaller companies ?

March 26, 2008 By 10 Comments

… of your problems quickly. In my experience as small business owner the problem tends to happen when you either get some problems or need… good news for smaller companies like Percona, Pythian, Proven Scaling, Open Query. All of these companies should offer more personal professional… cases when decision makers are technically savvy to fully understand problems to the full depth. UPDATE: Reponding to Paul and Sherri…

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Post: XtraDB: The Top 10 enhancements

August 13, 2009 By 5 Comments

…).  One problem in particular that this causes, is that InnoDB the algorithm which chooses if InnoDB is too busy to flush… docs).  The built-in InnoDB status also has some problems with the placement of items (a long transaction list will… (see docs). Data dictionary control – Once an InnoDB table is opened it is never freed from the in-memory data dictionary…

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Post: Are PHP persistent connections evil ?

November 12, 2006 By 32 Comments

…images which also does not need MySQL connection open. In optimal configuration with Apache talking to …apache children. But you need to keep them busy all the time so they should not …could recycle connections easily without any problems. In later versions number of problems however arose – If you …

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Post: Living with backups

November 6, 2008 By 28 Comments

… act as in all-you-can-eat bar. With a busy database server it may turn out that running a simple… of that would support it well. The problem is when accessing a file that was opened with O_DIRECT flag, the file… precautions have been taken, there are still chances for performance problems to happen on the working instance of MySQL. Such danger…

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