I would be interested in a benchmark of XtraDB vs PBXT. Could you do something like that? Because PBXT is maybe the better choice if the database doesn’t fit in memory. But numbers are better than conjectures.
Comment: PBXT in tpcc-like benchmark
Vadim, Thanks for the benchmark. How do PBXT‘s table size compared to XtraDB’s — are they generally … the impact of XtraDB’s data compression. For example comparing PBXT, uncoompressed XtraDB with compressed XtraDB to see if compression brings…
Comment: The Doom of Multiple Storage Engines
… is still working on fixing issues that were found with PBXT after porting to Drizzle (since we can run a larger test suite against PBXT). In Drizzle we have taken some engines which cause performance…
Post: The Doom of Multiple Storage Engines
… kinds of combination such as running multi-table update joining PBXT and Innodb tables. Operations Things like backup and monitoring becomes… drops everything but Innodb Storage engine (it could be NDB, PBXT etc, it does not matter). We could save a lot…
Comment: MySQL 5.5.4 in tpcc-like workload
Very interesting Vadim – thanks for posting! I’d like to see the PBXT comparison too (when PBXT is ready). –Robin
Comment: Would you like to ask a question about PBXT?
What’s the “ideal” use case for the PBXT engine? When would I use PBXT instead of, say, myISAM or INNODB?
Comment: XtraDB storage engine release 1.0.4-8
… against the vanilla release) but, I have noticed that neither PBXT nor SphinxSE seem to work as pluggable modules in 5… an aside, are there any plans to add these in? PBXT is still an RC, but having the SphinxSE engine as…
Comment: MySQL and IBM
… partnership with other third-party storage engine vendors, such as PBXT. I don’t see it as a double-standard to include the DB2 storage engine when the PBXT relationship hasn’t yet reached the same level.
Comment: MySQL and IBM
… added in a release version, so can PBXT – and I would state that PBXT has probably had more real world use already…
Post: Percona's patches spread to a wider audience
… with features (Percona patches, Google patches, etc) and storage engines (PBXT, Sphinx, etc) that aren’t in the main MySQL server…-built versions of the server with cutting-edge features like PBXT. This should help lower the barriers to trying these…

