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Tips on benchmarking Go + MySQL
We just released, as an open source release, our new percona-agent (https://github.com/percona/percona-agent), the agent to work with Percona Cloud Tools. This agent is written in Go. I will give a...
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From zero to full visibility of MySQL in 3 minutes with Percona Cloud Tools
First, I would like to invite you to my webinar, “Monitoring All (Yes, All!) MySQL Metrics with Percona Cloud Tools,” on Wednesday, June 25 at 10 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time, where I will talk on the...
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Feature preview: Compact backups in Percona XtraBackup
We continue to improve Percona XtraBackup, and today I would like to give a preview for one feature which comes in next Percona XtraBackup 2.1 release. This feature is “Compact backups”, and let me...
View ArticleFeature in details: Incremental state transfer after a node crash in Percona...
With our newest release of Percona XtraDB Cluster, I would like to highlight a very nice ability to recovery a node and bring it back to the cluster with an incremental transfer after a crash. This...
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Percona Server on the Nexus 7: Your own MySQL Database Server on an Android...
Percona Server on the Nexus 7: Your own MySQL Database Server on an Android Tablet Following Roel’s post, Percona Server on the Raspberry Pi: Your own MySQL Database Server , I thought what other crazy...
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Accessing Percona XtraDB Cluster nodes in parallel from PHP using MySQL...
Accessing Percona XtraDB Cluster nodes in parallel with MySQL asynchronous calls This post is followup to Peter’s recent post, “Investigating MySQL Replication Latency in Percona XtraDB Cluster,” in...
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SimCity outages, traffic control and Thread Pool for MySQL
For this post I’m going to shamelessly exploit the litany of technical problems SimCity players encountered earlier this month and a few examples of how Thread Pool for MySQL and Percona Server for...
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Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013: It feels like 2007 again
I actually don’t remember exactly whether it was in 2006, 2007 or 2008 — but around that time the MySQL community had one of the greatest MySQL conferences put on by O’Reilly and MySQL. It was a good,...
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Testing the Micron P320h
The Micron P320h SSD is an SLC-based PCIe solid-state storage device which claims to provide the highest read throughput of any server-grade SSD, and at Micron’s request, I recently took some time to...
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Open Source, the MySQL market (and TokuDB in particular)
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...
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Percona MySQL University @Portland next Monday!
We’re less than a week away from Percona MySQL University at Portland, Oregon next Monday, June 17. The latest in a series of FREE one-day educational events, we are pleased to feature 10 technical...
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TokuMX is MongoDB on steroids
I am actually quite excited about Tokutek’s release of TokuMX. I think it is going to change the landscape of database systems and it is finally something that made me looking into NoSQL. Why is TokuMX...
View ArticleWhat kind of queries are bad for MySQL?
In writing a recommendation for our Web development team on how to use MySQL, I came up with the following list, which I want to share: What kind of queries are bad for MySQL? Any query is bad. Send a...
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Considering TokuDB as an engine for timeseries data
I am working on a customer’s system where the requirement is to store a lot of timeseries data from different sensors. For performance reasons we are going to use SSD, and therefore there is a list of...
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TokuDB vs InnoDB in timeseries INSERT benchmark
This post is a continuation of my research of TokuDB’s storage engine to understand if it is suitable for timeseries workloads. While inserting LOAD DATA INFILE into an empty table shows great results...
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