…Marketing department to wash your brains. Watch out. Whenever you treat marketing benchmarks…benchmarked of MySQL vs PostgreSQL and try my best to get best…benchmark or recent CT benchmark are from this type. Interesting enough even in TPC or SPEC benchmarks…
Post: A piece of Sun/MySQL Marketing
February 27, 2008 By 7 Comments
… Server, Web Server are all different. This pretty much means you have no clue on what is the best on the component level… what this benchmark tends to compare. My advice to someone looking at marketing benchmarks would be to examine issues carefully and see what the facts are…
Post: New SpecJAppServer results at MySQL and Sun.
November 12, 2008 By Leave a Comment
…HP box. Unfortunately such benchmarks are more about marketing then fair technical comparison and…are somethat benchmark optimized – for example doublewrite is disabled; checksums are disabled; binary log is disabled – this is not what… = 0 Good! So Innodb performed best in this workload without …
Post: MySQL Sizing questions
June 23, 2006 By 4 Comments
…Marketing people or even customers saying they typically get the answers from other vendors. 2) The best… are you selling 100 items or millions of items as amazon.com. What search services are you… is using “real world” kind of application benchmark which emulates internet shop activit. According to…
Post: All thouse new MySQL Storage Engines
April 17, 2008 By 8 Comments
… and glossy marketing materials explaining why they are better. I’ve seen enough of marketing benchmarks at my life to really believe them. Marketing benchmarks typically… performs best for ALL cases, and keep in mind performance is not the only thing you may be concerned about. What makes…
Post: How Percona strives to remain neutral and independent
March 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
… you the best service. In summary, you get the best service, and …does not entitle vendors to purchase marketing exposure from us, but we … you are designing a product to perform very well on a specific benchmark, … other relationship, but we have what you could call an “informational” partnership….
Post: Aligning IO on a hard disk RAID – the Theory
June 9, 2011 By 15 Comments
…to distribute writes properly so they make the best use of the underlying storage, it also …not all hard disk drives available on the market these days use 512-byte sectors so most…are not aligned. Now it may be interesting to see what are real life effects of misalignment, my benchmark results are…
Comment: MySQL wins C'T Database Contest
August 30, 2006 By 27 Comments
…what they need to do. Regarding impact of this to benchmark – every competition benchmark is a game. There are rules and you simply play by these rules to get best…simply illustrate MySQL market position, at least on this kind of market of …
Post: Should I buy a Fast SSD or more memory?
April 8, 2010 By 10 Comments
…about this benchmark: The A arrow is when data fits completely in the buffer pool (best performance). It…one, since they are all relatively small. There are already appliances on the market which use 8 Intel…t know what your working set is – ask us! Important note: This graph and these results are …
Post: MySQL Northern European Customer Conference
October 17, 2007 By 7 Comments
… Karlsson and Ivan Zoratti are one of the best of the kind being …discussions with Anders. Ivan had number of benchmarks presented in his presentations which … of MySQL Enterprise from MySQL Marketing Materials . There is not much of …. Though this is may be what London audience is looking for – how …
