…. More disclaimers at the end. Short version: VoltDB is very scalable; it should scale to 120 partitions, 39 servers, and 1…. I used Neil J. Gunther’s Universal Scalability Law (USL) to model the cluster’s scalability. If you are not familiar with this… of VoltDB it does indeed match their claim, with good scalability to dozens of servers. For more information, or to download…
Post: Modeling InnoDB Scalability on Multi-Core Servers
January 26, 2011 By 11 Comments
… prompted me to do some mathematical modeling of InnoDB’s scalability as the number of cores in the server increases. Vadim… this. The modeling I performed is Universal Scalability Law modeling, which can predict both software and hardware scalability, depending on how it is… following are plots of the read-only and read-write scalability models that I generated, based on these benchmarks. [caption id…
Post: Percona white paper: Forecasting MySQL Scalability
November 16, 2010 By 6 Comments
… just published Percona’s latest white paper, Forecasting MySQL Scalability with the Universal Scalability Law. This is essentially a streamlined walk-through of… metrics can provide amazingly rich insight into system performance and scalability, in combination with Little’s Law and queueing theory. These…
Comment: Percona white paper: Forecasting MySQL Scalability
April 17, 2012 By 6 Comments
Hi Baron, Your first paper – Forecasting MySQL Scalability with the Universal Scalability Law was really very interesting. I actually read it first, …? I got to see you gave one session on – Extracting Scalability and Performance Metrics from TCP Traffic in Surge Conference 2011…
Post: The four fundamental performance metrics
April 27, 2011 By 15 Comments
…. These are the key metrics we need to model scalability with the Universal Scalability Law, perform queueing analysis, and do capacity planning. And…
Comment: Modeling InnoDB Scalability on Multi-Core Servers
January 26, 2011 By 11 Comments
… they’d benchmarked 1-core for a different reason: the Universal Scalability Law requires it as a reference point for everything else…
Post: MySQL 5.6: Improvements in the Nutshell
January 27, 2013 By 16 Comments
Preparing for my talk for Percona MySQL University in Raleigh,NC, Tuesday 29th of January I have created … know through the comment and I’ll update the page Scalability – Scalable Read Only Transactions – Concurrent Innodb data file extension – Non-Recursive…
Comment: MySQL Limitations Part 1: Single-Threaded Replication
October 21, 2010 By 16 Comments
… to the system which accepts transaction requests, decides on a universal order, and sends the ordered requests to all replicas, then…-node transactions is eliminated, which is a critical step towards scalability. (Why distributed commit protocols can be omitted in distributed systems…
