Hi Baron, Your first paper – Forecasting MySQL Scalability with the Universal Scalability Law was really very interesting. I actually read it first…? I got to see you gave one session on – Extracting Scalability and Performance Metrics from TCP Traffic in Surge Conference 2011…
Post: MariaDB 5.3 is released as GA!
March 5, 2012 By 17 Comments
… joins Thread pooling and a segmented key cache for improved scalability That’s really just a sampling. A good starting point….5 release. This should help MariaDB be faster and more scalable, as well as adding a lot of nice features like…
Post: Percona is Speaking At Open Source Data Center Conference in Nuremberg, Germany
April 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
… divided into the three sessions, „Devops and Methods“, „Databases“ and „Scalability and Infrastructure“ and thus provides the latest know-how for…
Post: Percona Toolkit 2.1 with New Online Schema Change Tool
April 5, 2012 By 9 Comments
… upgrades I’ll show how to use it to forecast scalability and performance The new Percona Toolkit release is available for…
Post: Announcement of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.20 GA release
April 3, 2012 By 10 Comments
… XtraDB Cluster. Percona XtraDB Cluster is a High Availability and Scalability solution for MySQL Users and is based on Percona Server…
Post: Diamond Keynote Panel, BOFs, Lightning Talks, and McAfee and AOL Sponsorships
April 2, 2012 By 1 Comment
… “The Five Minute Tour of Drizzle”, “How to Design a Scalable System”, and “How to Become a Rockstar DBA”. The Percona…
Comment: mysql-proxy, urgh performance and scalability ?
February 27, 2012 By 27 Comments
Tank, I did not try, but I am not aware about performance fixes that could improve scalability in this version.
Post: Is VoltDB really as scalable as they claim?
February 28, 2011 By 3 Comments
…. More disclaimers at the end. Short version: VoltDB is very scalable; it should scale to 120 partitions, 39 servers, and 1… used Neil J. Gunther’s Universal Scalability Law (USL) to model the cluster’s scalability. If you are not familiar with this… of VoltDB it does indeed match their claim, with good scalability to dozens of servers. For more information, or to download…
Post: Modeling InnoDB Scalability on Multi-Core Servers
January 26, 2011 By 11 Comments
… prompted me to do some mathematical modeling of InnoDB’s scalability as the number of cores in the server increases. Vadim…. The modeling I performed is Universal Scalability Law modeling, which can predict both software and hardware scalability, depending on how it is… following are plots of the read-only and read-write scalability models that I generated, based on these benchmarks. [caption id…
Post: Percona white paper: Forecasting MySQL Scalability
November 16, 2010 By 6 Comments
… just published Percona’s latest white paper, Forecasting MySQL Scalability with the Universal Scalability Law. This is essentially a streamlined walk-through… metrics can provide amazingly rich insight into system performance and scalability, in combination with Little’s Law and queueing theory. These…
