May 19, 2013

Speaking on OSCON 2008

It looks like I never blogged about it but I’m going to be speaking on OSCON 2008. Similar to the last year presentation I’ll do overview of MySQL Open Source storage engines. I’ll do brief overview of different storage engines available out there as well as share benchmark results for some of them.

MySQL Error Message Nonsenses

What MySQL honestly was never good at is giving good helpful error messages. Start with basics for example – The error message in case of syntax error gives you information about tokens near by but little details:

It would be much better if MySQL would give error give exact position of error (with complex [...]

New MySQL Community Release Policies published

Yesterday Kaj Published changes to MySQL Community Release Policies. I knew about them a bit in advance but now they are public I can comment a bit. In general I’m disappointed and think this is moving in the wrong direction, it also makes me to think hard if MySQL is out of more creative solutions [...]

Landscape of Transactional Storage Engines for MySQL

I finally found a time to publish Landscape of Transactional Storage Engines slides on MySQL Presentations page , this is the talk which we gave on OSCON 2007 and which talks about current state behavior and performance properties of Innodb, Falcon, PBXT and SolidDB Storage Engines.

MySQL on OSCON

Interesting enough this year people at OSCON do not show to much interest in the MySQL, and Databases for that reason. Our talk comparing performance of MySQL Storage Engines had probably 20-30 people, Monty’s talk on MySQL Source Code had about same number, and as Monty told me he never had so few people on [...]

MySQL and PostgreSQL SpecJAppServer benchmark results

Listening to Josh Berkus presentation on OSCON today I decided to take a closer look at SpecJAppServer benchmarks results which were published by PostgreSQL recently and which as Josh Puts it “This publication shows that a properly tuned PostgreSQL is not only as fast or faster than MySQL, but almost as fast as Oracle (since [...]

Sphinx: Going Beyond full text search

I’ve already wrote a few times about various projects using Sphinx with MySQL for scalable Full Text Search applications. For example on BoardReader we’re using this combination to build search against over 1 billion of forum posts totaling over 1.5TB of data handling hundreds of thousands of search queries per day. The count of forum [...]

Silicon Valley Onsite consulting anyone ?

Last time I was in Silicon Valley in April after MySQL Users Conference, this time I’m planning to spend July 30 – August 2nd in Silicon Valley after OSCON visiting friends and customers. If you’re located in Silicon Valley or San Francisco area and interested in some onsite MySQL Consulting I can offer 1 day [...]

Speaking on OSCON 2007

Vadim and me will be speaking on OSCON 2007, taking place in Portland,OR July 23-27. Our talk will be about Open Source Transactional Storage Engines meaning Innodb, Falcon, Solid and PBXT. We’ll look into architecture of these storage engines as well as compare performance in number of Benchmarks. If you will be visiting OSCON please [...]

EuroOSCON 2006 – High Performance FullText Search

I’m now back from EuroOSCON 2006 which was the reason I was not posting for a while. Pretty interesting event, even though it looks like it is getting less geeky compared to OSCON in US I visited two years ago – a lot of presentations now shifted to philosophical, political and business issues. I however [...]