… most obvious one. MySQL (and systems in general) do not scale perfectly with numbers of CPUs and number of concurrent requests… process. The scalability numbers depend a lot on the system scale, software and workload. Data size impact There are different type… stream in single thread which means it replication can’t scale for large amount of writes. The lack of parallel query…
Post: Scaling to 256-way the Sun way
November 11, 2008 By 13 Comments
… you may have recently seen there are some articles about scaling MySQL one 256-way system. I though wow did they… or 256 threads all together. Now what is about MySQL scaling to use these 32 cores with 256 threads ? Especially with… which is of course extremely poor number. The scale out and ability to scale by using as many MySQL instances as you…
Post: Percona Server Scales Vertically with Virident tachIOn Drives
February 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
… white paper that explains how to stop sharding and start scaling vertically with PCI-E flash drives, specifically the Virident tachIOn…-latency I/O performance, exemplified by the Virident tachIOn drive. “Scaling up” is once again a viable and economical strategy for MySQL, and “scaling out” need no longer be the default database architecture.
Post: Scaling problems still exist in MySQL 5.5 and Percona Server 5.5
May 20, 2011 By 11 Comments
… lot of attention such as Sysbench and DBT2/TPC-C scale pretty well a they got a lot of attention, there can be other quite typical workloads however which do not scale that well. This is why it is important to test…
Post: White Paper: "Scaling MySQL Deployments Efficiently" from Percona and Virident
February 7, 2011 By 2 Comments
… solution for MySQL, and as result you can find whitepaper “Scaling MySQL Deployments Efficiently Using Virident tachIOn Drives”, available from Virident…
Post: Scaling w Flash Webinar Recording Available
July 2, 2009 By 3 Comments
The Scaling with Flash webinar I’ve mentioned earlier was a success and we got the recording available. It contains Percona presentation, presentation of Schooner appliances and Q&A session. Enjoy.
Post: Scaling IO Bound Workloads Webinar
June 19, 2009 By 2 Comments
… whenever you’re interested in Schooner appliance offerings, flash or scaling MySQL in General. You can follow this url to register…
Post: Shard-Query turbo charges Infobright community edition (ICE)
May 6, 2011 By 23 Comments
…=* [shard1] host=192.168.56.102 Scale-out In addition to adding parallelism via scale-up, Shard-Query can improve performance of… by scaling out, even more so than scaling up, because additional parallelism is added beyond what can be exploited by scale up. Scale up… used. There are benefits with both “scale-up” and “scale-out”, but once again, the “scale-out” results are the most striking. — Q4…
Post: Economics of Performance Optimization
March 13, 2008 By 9 Comments
… featured on the front page you quite likely start with scaled out and reasonably optimized phase. Let us think about some… memcache, sharding, replication or other techniques which allow you to scale out to the several boxes. If you do this step… tackle these problems, and even though I just spoke about scaling and performance optimization it goes far beyond this. Hiring us…
Post: Is VoltDB really as scalable as they claim?
February 28, 2011 By 3 Comments
… the end. Short version: VoltDB is very scalable; it should scale to 120 partitions, 39 servers, and 1.6 million complex… know what to think of that, I’ll tell you: scaling a synchronously replicated, active-active master, fully ACID, always-consistent… access to the raw performance results from benchmarks at that scale — this is a mathematical model based on a smaller benchmark…
