I was reviewing the Percona Live sponsors list the other day and pondering the potential success stories associated with this product or that one…. and as I was preparing to put more thought on the topic, a PlanetMySQL post caught my eye. It was penned by Mike Hogan and titled, “Thoughts on Xeround and Free!” [...]
Benchmarking Percona Server TokuDB vs InnoDB
After compiling Percona Server with TokuDB, of course I wanted to compare InnoDB performance vs TokuDB. I have a particular workload I’m interested in testing – it is an insert-intensive workload (which is TokuDB’s strong suit) with some roll-up aggregation, which should produce updates in-place (I will use INSERT .. ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE statements [...]
This week’s TGIF Percona Live ticket giveaway
It’s Friday again (already?) and as usual, we have a free ticket for Percona Live London. This time Tokutek is doing the honors of running the contest and selecting the winner. Instructions for entering the contest are on their blog, at the top of my recent guest post about covering indexes.
The feature I love in TokuDB
Playing with TokuDB updates I noticed in SHOW PROCESSLIST unsual for MySQL State.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 | mysql> show processlist; +----+------+-----------+--------+---------+------+---------------------------+-----------------------------+ | Id | User | Host | db | Command | Time | State | Info | +----+------+-----------+--------+---------+------+---------------------------+-----------------------------+ | 3 | root | localhost | sbtest | Query | 30 | Updated about 764000 rows | update sbtest set email=zip | ... mysql> show processlist; +----+------+-----------+--------+---------+------+----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | Id | User | Host | db | Command | Time | State | Info | +----+------+-----------+--------+---------+------+----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | 3 | root | localhost | sbtest | Query | 79 | Updated about 1900000 rows | update sbtest set email=zip | ... |
(Do not look in stupid UPDATE query, it’s just for testing ) So looking in SHOW PROCESSLIST you can see progress of query execution. I would want to see it in standard MySQL and InnoDB more than all these triggers and [...]

