May 25, 2012

Comment: Which Linux distribution for a MySQL database server? A specific point of view.

Perl or Python requires you to install software from ActiveState of some other Perl/Python vendor and is sometimes limited. (The 64-bit MySQL Python

Post: Percona is looking for a Perl and Python expert

If you’re a Perl and/or Python expert (preferably both), Percona may have a job for you. …

Comment: Mass killing of MySQL Connections

Thanks Chip, The good thing with having it done on SQL level is you do not need to install everything – not every server running MySQL has working perl python on php installed

Post: Should MySQL and Web Server share the same box ?

… you’re running 500 Apache children with mod_P (php,perl,python) per box (which is probably bad idea anyway). The good…

Comment: Percona is looking for a Perl and Python expert

… mysql interface and the python interpreter is not truly threaded. Once it drops into a c function python loses all ability to kill a thread. This is partially addressed in python 2.6 with multiprocess… python. Before all the perl guy get mad at me for this I am not saying that you can’t write maintainable perl

Post: Alternatives of PHP ?

… proposed languages: D, Ocaml, Haskell, Erlang, Python, Ruby, LISP, Scheme, Lua, Eiffel, C#, SML, Perl, TCL and rest. Unfortunately my first requirement of support MySQL narrows the list to Perl, Ruby, Java, C, C++, even Python supports…

Post: Percona Testing: Innodb crash / recovery tests available

… two reasons: My attempts at copying the Facebook multi-threaded python load-generation code seemed very, very slow I just like… the name of dbqp).  You’ll need the DBD::mysql perl module for the randgen and MySQLdb for kewpie, and a…

Comment: Alternatives of PHP ?

… I found it’s apparently 35x faster than perl and 31 times faster the python. http://www.rapideuphoria.com/bench.txt It…

Comment: MySQL-Memcached or NOSQL Tokyo Tyrant - part 3

I think we should examine redis redis is a key value database, however it support persistency and clients (PHP/ Ruby/Perl /Java / Python / tcl … some of the clients support sharding ( not need to re-implement that) and there is also terracotta … Best Regards

Comment: Watch out for your CRON jobs

Peter, Many people have shell/perl/php/python/ruby scripts that are cron jobs that only do database …