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 [...]
Top 5 Wishes for MySQL
June 29, 2007 By 10 Comments
About a week ago Marten send me email pointing to his article published on Jays Blog (Come on Marten, it is time for you to get your own blog). I should have replied much earlier but only found time to do that now. So here is my list 1. Be Pluggable Unlike many OpenSource projects [...]
MySQL – to use or not to use
May 28, 2007 By 10 Comments
Reading this slashdot article today and two CIO magazine articles linked from it. Such discussions started at right place at right time always attract a lot of flamers and can be fun to read. What hit me this time is quality of the articles in CIO magazine. If this is what managers suppose to use [...]
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 [...]
Power of MySQL Storage Engines
March 5, 2007 By 3 Comments
Where does real power of MySQL Storage Engines, and pluggable storage engines as MySQL 5.1 lays ? It is very much advertised this allows third parties to create their own storage engines and we can see solutions as Solid and PBXT . Plus there is Falcon storage engine being developed inside MySQL. All of these [...]
Falcon Storage Engine Design Review
January 12, 2007 By 19 Comments
Now as new MySQL Storage engine – Falcon is public I can write down my thought about its design, which I previously should have kept private as I partially got them while working for MySQL. These thought base on my understanding, reading docs, speaking to Jim, Monty, Arjen and other people so I might miss [...]
MySQL/Innodb scalability tests after fix
January 3, 2007 By 1 Comment
This is not freshest news ever but I simply have not yet had a time to comment on it. I already wrote about interesting benchmarks Tweakers.net have done for MySQL and PostgreSQL with different CPUs. I was in contact with Tweakers.net team to see if they miss something obvious in MySQL settings as well as [...]
Interesting MySQL and PostgreSQL Benchmarks
November 30, 2006 By 20 Comments
I had found pile of MySQL and PostgreSQL benchmarks on various platforms which I have not seen before. Very interesting reading. It does not share too much information about how MySQL or PostgreSQL was configured or about queries. Furthermore MySQL and PostgreSQL has a bit different implementations (ie SubQueries avoided for MySQL) so do not [...]
Back from OpenSource Database Conference
November 9, 2006 By 1 Comment
I’m just back from OpenSource Database Conference and PHP International Conference which took place in Frankfurt. I’ve uploaded slides for two talks I’ve been giving which you might want to check out. In general Database portion of the conference was a bit boring. May be because it was not widely announced or may be for [...]
MySQL wins C’T Database Contest
August 29, 2006 By 27 Comments
Today MySQL published the press release with results of Database Contest (results on German available here http://www.mysql.de/ct-dbcontest). Peter and me spent quite some time working on this project while being employed by MySQL and it is great to see results finally publicly available. The story began about year ago when C’T magazine had called for [...]
