June 19, 2013

Post: Pacemaker, please meet NDB Cluster or using Pacemaker/Heartbeat to start a NDB Cluster

… automatically. I know at least 2 sets of scripts to manage NDB startup, ndb-initializer and from Johan configurator www.severalnines… I realized that Pacemaker has all the logic required to manage NDB Cluster startup. Okay it might seems weird to control…-HA project has split the old Heartbeat-2 project in 2 parts, the clustering and communication layer, Heartbeat and the resources manager, Pacemaker…

Post: Percona and the MariaDB Foundation

… is a form of governance for many mature open source projects, such as Apache Software Foundation, Linux Foundation or FreeBSD Foundation… there is a non-profit organization behind the project, with the success of the project as its mission, which can streamline the… very fast pace and ensures it remains the best data management technology for modern applications. We recommend MariaDB in the cases…

Post: Percona testing: Quick test clusters with kewpie!

… @@ -49,9 +49,9 @@ from lib.test_mgmt.execution_management # We base / look for a lot of things based…-#project_name = ‘percona-xtradb-cluster’ +project_name = ‘percona-xtradb-cluster’ #project_name = ‘xtrabackup’ -project_name = None +#project_name = None defaults = get_defaults(qp_rootdir,project

Post: MySQL Support or Support for MySQL ? MySQL Trademark Policies

… instead selected to stop the project. What worries me is situation with a lot of Open Source project which use MySQL in the name – there is MySQL Toolkit, MySQL Master Master Manager, MySQL Slow Log… you’re Open Source Project and make no money out of it does not help here. Other Projects are smarter with naming…

Post: Top 5 Wishes for MySQL

… UDFs which was very limited. Compare this with other OpenSource projects such as PostgreSQL (plugable indexes etc), Apache, PHP or Linux… just the day before it is released. With such release management I would expect MySQL to try to be a lot… MySQL I have created more than hundred of such little projects suggested by MySQL customers and myself based on long MySQL…

Post: Commodity Hardware, Commodity Software and Commodity People

… not to mention understanding all ups and downs of database management system. This sounds nice in theory but there are not… have many of them in the team. In many MySQL Projects there are not even dedicated MySQL people and Web developers… other databases. Other interesting development is Scalable Blob Streaming. This projects starts with retrieving data from storage engine using HTTP Protocol…

Post: MySQL Storage Engines - PBXT

… never fragmented and handled efficiently. PBXT team even leads the project to add scalable blob streaming to MySQL which would be… lot of question about details, such as index structures, buffer management locking implementation and so on. As we already seen in… engine which needs VACUUM” So overall PBXT is very interesting project to watch and to try out (We’re using PBXT…

Post: devops webinar - follow up Q&A

… best and more mature solution used to perform database change management. However there are many other alternatives like Flyway, c5-db… I really like. Most of them are created for java projects and use XML definitions of your changes which I don…. If you just run the ALTER statements from your configuration management when a file with those ALTERs is modified then deltas…

Comment: Edge-case behavior of INSERT...ODKU

… legacy schema to a completely re-structured one on a project I am working on. InsODKU just didnt cut it. It… exactly what the figures were, but I think it was managing about 400 inserts per second with InsODKU. With my method, it was managing around 10 – 15,000 a second I believe. And yes…

Post: Thank you for joining us at Percona Live, NYC 2012

… a good reason. NewRelic have been showing their application performance management platform. I find it great help both for MySQL Developers… tutorials and conference sessions from many experienced MySQL practitioners and project leaders, including keynote by Monty Widenius, founder of MySQL. We…