… Sun/MySQL Newsletter Today which among other things lead to the site publishing among other things links to various stuff related to Sun… Virtualization Software” used with Windows is a crap ? Remembering horrible MySQL performance loss from Xen and VMWARE It is quite possible. You… different MySQL and Web instances looks highly dubious to me…. at least this is not what you normally do for high performance…
Post: Another ingenious piece of Sun Marketing
March 20, 2009 By 20 Comments
… mail from Sun/MySQL employees which tended to agree with me on this being the a large stretch. I would hope Sun/MySQL would tone it down and actually spend time on making things to scale inside MySQL rather than asking… to my old post about T2000 performance with Sun comments about Sun not pushing this as scalable MySQL platform. Well this is T5440 now…
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… databases) is not where most of MySQL sweet spots come from. MySQL performance gains usually come from MySQL unique features – non transactional MyISAM, Multi…
Post: Percona's Commitments to MySQL Users
November 5, 2010 By 10 Comments
…. Still, in the years since MySQL has been acquired by Sun, and then by Oracle, many MySQL users have been uncertain about the… replacement for MySQL, for those whose needs are not met by the official MySQL server from Oracle. It offers more performance, more features…’re dedicated to advancing the state of the art in MySQL performance and functionality, because our customers pay us to do it…
Post: Intel Woodcrest vs AMD Opteron for MySQL
June 8, 2006 By 9 Comments
… also looks at performance of Irwindale based Xeon and Sun T2000. Results are close to the ones I had in MySQL Performance Landscape presentation – neither of them was match to Opteron performance in MySQL…
Post: Finding your MySQL High-Availability solution - The definitions
October 9, 2009 By 10 Comments
… MySQL Performance Blog, I joined Percona at the beginning September, I chose to cover the various high-availability (HA) options available for MySQL. I have done dozen of MySQL HA related engagements while working for Sun/MySQL over the last couple… unresponsive according to the defined performance threshold. In many cases, people don’t define a performance threshold, it is basically the…
Post: MySQL Error Message Nonsenses
March 16, 2008 By 7 Comments
… error code to tell you why operation could not be performed (read error, out of file descriptors etc). In fact you… example. So Innodb has limit of 1023 open transactions which perform writes. I’m not excited to see there is a… transactions running concurrently? I hope with pluggable storage engine interface Sun/MySQL spends some time to make things consistent. There should be…
Post: There will be no separate Percona Performance Conference in April 2010
December 11, 2009 By 5 Comments
… to have a MySQL conference independently of Sun/MySQL, we have decided not to proceed with plans for our own Performance Conference. We are…
Post: The Percona Performance Presentations Are Online
April 27, 2009 By 4 Comments
The 2009 Percona Performance Conference finished up last week, and was overall a resounding success. Thanks to all of the speakers, O’Reilly, and Sun/MySQL for help making it happen! Most slides have been uploaded; look for the stragglers over the next couple of days.
Post: Tom Basil (formerly MySQL's Director of Support) Joins Percona
December 4, 2008 By 13 Comments
… Officer! It is Tom Basil, who was Employee #11 at MySQL and led the Support organization there for almost eight years… Sun/MySQL and come join us? In his own words, slightly paraphrased, Vision. Tom knows that we have replicated the vision of MySQL… a distributed workforce of some of the best and brightest performance gurus in the world. Values. We’re fiercely loyal to…
