May 18, 2013

Why MySQL Performance at Low Concurrency is Important

March 27, 2013 By 8 Comments

A few weeks ago I wrote about “MySQL Performance at High Concurrency” and why it is important, which was followed up by Vadim’s post on ThreadPool in Percona Server providing some great illustration on the topic. This time I want to target an opposite question: why MySQL performance at low concurrency is important for you. [...]

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Accessing Percona XtraDB Cluster nodes in parallel from PHP using MySQL asynchronous queries

March 6, 2013 By 2 Comments

This post is followup to Peter’s recent post, “Investigating MySQL Replication Latency in Percona XtraDB Cluster,” in which a question was raised as to whether we can measure latency to all nodes at the same time. It is an interesting question: If we have N nodes, can we send queries to nodes to be executed in [...]

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Investigating MySQL Replication Latency in Percona XtraDB Cluster

March 3, 2013 By 13 Comments

I was curious to check how Percona XtraDB Cluster behaves when it comes to MySQL replication latency — or better yet, call it data propagation latency. It was interesting to see whenever I can get stale data reads from other cluster nodes after write performed to some specific node. To test it I wrote quite a [...]

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Webinar: Building a highly scaleable distributed row, document or column store with MySQL and Shard-Query

February 6, 2013 By Leave a Comment

On Friday, February 15, 2013 10:00am Pacific Standard Time, I will be delivering a webinar entitled “Building a highly scaleable distributed row, document or column store with MySQL and Shard-Query” The first part of this webinar will focus on why distributed databases are needed, and on the techniques employed by Shard-Query to implement a distributed [...]

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Sphinx search performance optimization: multi-threaded search

January 16, 2013 By 6 Comments

Queries in MySQL, Sphinx and many other database or search engines are typically single-threaded. That is when you issue a single query on your brand new r910 with 32 CPU cores and 16 disks, the maximum that is going to be used to process this query at any given point is 1 CPU core and [...]

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How does MySQL Replication really work?

January 9, 2013 By 9 Comments

While we do have many blog posts on replication on our blog, such as on replication being single-threaded, on semi-synchronous replication or on estimating replication capacity, I don’t think we have one that covers the very basics of how MySQL replication really works on the high level. Or it’s been so long ago I can’t [...]

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Percona XtraDB Cluster: Multi-node writing and Unexpected deadlocks

August 17, 2012 By 17 Comments

Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) and the technology it uses (Galera) is an exciting alternative to traditional MySQL replication.  For those who don’t know, it gives you: Fully Synchronous replication with a write latency increase equivalent to a ping RTT to the furthest node Automatic cluster synchronization, both incremental and full restores The ability to read [...]

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Load management Techniques for MySQL

May 6, 2012 By 3 Comments

One of the very frequent cases with performance problems with MySQL is what they happen every so often or certain times. Investigating them we find out what the cause is some batch jobs, reports and other non response time critical activities are overloading the system causing user experience to degrade. The first thing you need [...]

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Percona XtraDB Cluster Feature 2: Multi-Master replication

January 19, 2012 By 22 Comments

This is about the second great feature – Multi-Master replication, what you get with Percona XtraDB Cluster. It is recommended you get familiar with general architecture of the cluster, described on the previous post. By Multi-Master I mean the ability to write to any node in your cluster and do not worry that eventually you [...]

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Making the impossible: 3 nodes intercontinental replication

January 11, 2012 By 29 Comments

In this post I want to show new possibilities which open with Percona XtraDB Cluster. We will create 3 nodes Cluster with nodes on different continents (Europe, USA, Japan) and each node will accept write queries. Well, you theoretically could create 3 node traditional MySQL ring replication, but this is not what you want to [...]

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