… agency,” said Mickos, now SVP database products at Sun. “Key to them choosing MySQL was that we are now part of a… speaking millions while MySQL could have these done for thousands or tens of thousands in some cases. As MySQL merge with Sun progresses I… – the deal with Sun is great news for MySQL and will steer a lot of large fish in MySQL nets, it is also…
Post: MySQL and PostgreSQL SpecJAppServer benchmark results
July 25, 2007 By 13 Comments
… is different – MySQL benchmark use Sun Fire X4100 available in Nov 2005 using Opteron 285 CPU, PostgreSQL benchmarks use Sun Fire X4200 M2… engine level. As Josh now seems to be working for Sun I expect there is significant optimizations which could be done… of MySQL sweet spots come from. MySQL performance gains usually come from MySQL unique features – non transactional MyISAM, Multi Value inserts, Query Cache, Merge…
Post: Watch out for Marketing benchmarks
August 23, 2006 By 7 Comments
… sort merge join is needed and in many other advanced optimizer features. I can help in many cases to work around MySQL… interesting enough many of these customers stayed with MySQL for other applications or checked MySQL when new version was released. In general… would run TPC-C on a bit different configurations, or Sun would not publish SpecJAppServer benchmarks on absolutely same configuration. Looking…
Comment: Will Falcon fly?
June 24, 2008 By 11 Comments
… a pimped MyISAM so far no real competition to InnoDB. MySQL 5.1 still isn’t out, bugs don’t get… far is the business and MySQL cluster, the core Product itself is stalling at best. The Sun acquisition wasn’t a bad… insight into MySQL, I read about some people leaving and well there are always some difficulties when 2 companies merge). Some exciting…
Comment: Open Development vs Making a Big Splash
May 30, 2009 By 28 Comments
… a while before it’s had broad enough use for MySQL/Sun to say it’s ready for general availability. 5.4…’t even have all of its optimiser and other improvements merged in from 6.0 yet. Those who are using it…
