One may have notice we were not blogging too much recently, this is because we were quite busy, mainly building BoardReader.com – Search Engine which indexes tens of thousands of forums from all over the world. This project was built by us as consulting project so too bad we do not own it completely but [...]
SHOW INNODB STATUS walk through
July 17, 2006 By 40 Comments
Many people asked me to publish a walk through SHOW INNODB STATUS output, showing what you can learn from SHOW INNODB STATUS output and how to use this info to improve MySQL Performance. To start with basics SHOW INNODB STATUS is command which prints out a lot of internal Innodb performance counters, statistics, information about [...]
eWeek tests OpenSource stacks and .NET
July 17, 2006 By 7 Comments
Have you seen recent eWeek benchmarks which test OpenSource stacks and compare them to .NET ? Here is what was compared and here are results. Results make me ask number of questions – why WAMP would perform 6 times better than LAMP ? Why Python would be faster than PHP on Windows but slower on [...]
Sysbench evaluation of iSCSI performance
July 6, 2006 By 2 Comments
Partha Dutta posted pretty interesting post about iSCSI vs SCSI performance using SysBench. This is nice to finally see some iSCSI benchmarks done with MySQL – something we were planning to do for a while but never ended up doing, mainly due to lack of hardware available for tests. It is also good to see [...]
Why MySQL could be slow with large tables ?
June 9, 2006 By 141 Comments
If you’ve been reading enough database related forums, mailing lists or blogs you probably heard complains about MySQL being unable to handle more than 1.000.000 (or select any other number) rows by some of the users. On other hand it is well known with customers like Google, Yahoo, LiveJournal,Technocarati MySQL has installations with many billions [...]
To pack or not to pack – MyISAM Key compression
May 13, 2006 By 4 Comments
MyISAM storage engine has key compression which makes its indexes much smaller, allowing better fit in caches and so improving performance dramatically. Actually packed indexes not a bit longer rows is frequent reason of MyISAM performing better than Innodb. In this article I’ll get in a bit more details about packed keys and performance implications [...]
