… work for Commodity People, and people seems to agree with me. Number of vendors would claim they are in Commodity Software or Hardware business but few would probably mention they are doing it for Commodity People, because few… bunch of interfaces to talk to MySQL cluster as PHP session storage or as a REST Web Service, which are all rather interesting…
Post: Is VoltDB really as scalable as they claim?
February 28, 2011 By 3 Comments
…, at a throughput of more than 1.6 million transactions per second. This is on commodity 8-core … VoltDB. We’re focused on MySQL software and services. I am not a VoltDB expert. I have some …/2 of a percent to 8 percent) to avoid unphysical parameters as a result of performing a regression against the…
Post: Rendundant Array of Inexpensive Servers
August 21, 2008 By 15 Comments
… well for small systems. It is my experience – with quality commodity hardware (Dell,HP,IBM etc) you would see box failing… more availability issues caused by their own software bugs, DOS attacks and other issues. However as your system growths the reliability goes… why commodity inexpensive hardware is often better choice. If you have couple of $1M in production you need another $1M server as a…
Post: A piece of Sun/MySQL Marketing
February 27, 2008 By 7 Comments
… take informed decision and pick best of the component level. As you can see Everything – Hardware, Virtualization, OS, Database Server, Web… on these Xeons ? or is it “Leading Virtualization Software” used with Windows is a crap ? Remembering horrible MySQL performance loss from Xen… which is hardware/software configuration which is chosen. $200K per box and 830W is probably a lot more than commodity hardware most of…
Post: Death match! EBS versus SSD price, performance, and QoS
February 21, 2011 By 55 Comments
… get with physical hardware? Specifically, how does it compare to commodity solid-state drives? Let’s put them in the ring… a quadruple extra large EC2 server (currently priced at $2/hour for a non-reserved instance) with a software RAID10 array of EBS volumes. As…} in the output because the first sample is merely used as a baseline for subtracting from other samples), we read and wrote…
Post: RAID and Scale Out Discussions
June 12, 2007 By 3 Comments
… you consider Software RAID here. For many workloads you would like to get RAID just for the sake of BBU. As Jeremy… Google as far as I remember uses decent servers with RAID for their MySQL installations. I surely agree with Jeremy on Commodity does not mean Crapy thing. There is usually a sweet spot when you can get…
Post: Modeling InnoDB Scalability on Multi-Core Servers
January 26, 2011 By 11 Comments
… Scalability Law modeling, which can predict both software and hardware scalability, depending on how it is…œMagny-Cours†2.1GHz CPUs. It is a reasonably typical commodity machine except for the high core count…feeling is that the results will not be as good as the model predicts at high numbers of…
Post: Heikki Tuuri answers to Innodb questions, Part II
November 4, 2007 By 13 Comments
… interface both in hardware and software. I’m still surprised with databases being so much of commodity no one has something like it. Q35: I believe this is a somewhat trivial question, but it’s hard to find a… about 20 % of the available RAM as its file cache. The ideal configuration in a dedicated server is: set innodb_flush_method…
Comment: MySQL Partitioning - can save you or kill you
September 18, 2011 By 45 Comments
… may concern, I have been a software developer and database administrator/developer for decades, focusing…if broken down by location this could be as low as 10k transaction per second) application and …with a hosting service using commodity hardware and MySQL with the client side PHP. My client has a …
Post: Small things are better
October 8, 2006 By 15 Comments
…as piece of hardware or software can fail, even if this piece of hardware has some internal redundancy by itself, such as…system (yet another reason to like medium end commodity hardware) makes it faster to recover, smaller tables…no box to fall back to for such a long time ? On other hand if you …
