As you may have recently seen there are some articles about scaling MySQL one 256-way system. I though wow did they really make it work, considering how many bottlenecks remain in MySQL. What article really tells us ?
Percona’s patches spread to a wider audience
October 13, 2008 By 7 Comments
Percona’s patches are now available to a wider audience via OurDelta, a community effort to provide builds with features (Percona patches, Google patches, etc) and storage engines (PBXT, Sphinx, etc) that aren’t in the main MySQL server. Arjen Lentz is really the brainchild behind this. Kudos Arjen! What does this mean for the Percona patches? [...]
Choosing innodb_buffer_pool_size
November 3, 2007 By 39 Comments
My last post about Innodb Performance Optimization got a lot of comments choosing proper innodb_buffer_pool_size and indeed I oversimplified things a bit too much, so let me write a bit better description. Innodb Buffer Pool is by far the most important option for Innodb Performance and it must be set correctly. I’ve seen a lot [...]
MySQL Users Conference Presentation Proposals
October 24, 2007 By 12 Comments
OK, I am not getting too much people feedback on what would they like to hear about on MySQL Users Conference, so I went ahead and submitted few presentation ideas. I do not expect all of them would be accepted, furthermore it would be hard to prepare so many good presentations if they are so [...]
Progress with ClickAider project
October 24, 2007 By 21 Comments
About three months ago I announced ClickAider to become available to general public. And I think it is about the time to write about the progress we have with this project for those who interested. The project generates decent interest and we have about 3000 sites Registered over this time, which I consider decent number [...]
Query Profiling with MySQL: Bypassing caches
September 12, 2007 By 6 Comments
Quite frequently I run into question like this “I’m using SQL_NO_CACHE but my query is still much faster second time I run it, why is that ? The answer to this question is simple – because SQL_NO_CACHE only bypasses query cache but it has no change on other caches, which are MySQL Caches – Innodb [...]
Landscape of Transactional Storage Engines for MySQL
August 1, 2007 By 11 Comments
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.
ClickAider – Track Adsense Clicks and much more
July 9, 2007 By 17 Comments
Let me announce ClickAider – another projects we were working on in stealth mode for last several Months. ClickAider is Hosted Web Statistics system but it tracks Clicks rather than page views as most web counters do. And by clicks I mean not just clicks on the urls and images but clicks on many sophisticated [...]
Speaking on OSCON 2007
July 3, 2007 By 2 Comments
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 [...]
MySQL Storage Engines – PBXT
May 14, 2007 By 6 Comments
I promised to write little articles about all storage engines which sessions I attended during MySQL Users Conference but I did not get too far yet, too busy. So today it is time for PBXT. I was very interested about session about PBXT because this is storage engine does not target the same general purpose [...]
