Articles having tag: MYSQL

NoSQL and Relational Databases Podcast With Mathias Meyer

EngineYard's Ines Sombrarecordeda conversation withMathias Meyerabout NoSQL databases and their evolution towards more friendlier functionality, relational databases and their steps towards non-relational models, and a bit more on what polyglot persistence...

New distribution of random generator for sysbench – Zipf

By Vadim Tkachenko

Sysbench has three distribution for random numbers: uniform, special and gaussian. I mostly use uniform and special, and I feel that both do not fully reflect my needs when I run benchmarks. Uniform is stupidly simple: for a table with 1 mln rows, each row...

Zero-downtime schema changes webinar recording

By Baron Schwartz

The recording and slides for my webinar on zero-downtime schema changes with MySQL are available now. Don’t miss Vadim’s webinar tomorrow!

Webinar: MySQL and SSD

By Vadim Tkachenko

Just as a reminder – tomorrow, May-9, 2012, at 11am PDT I will be giving a free webinar “MySQL and SSD”. This is the same talk I gave on Percona Live MySQL Conference, so if you were there – you probably will find nothing new. Otherwise,...

Introducing Zend DBi as a MySQL Replacement on IBM i

By Vadim Tkachenko

You might have heard that Oracle made the decision not to support MySQL for IBM i any longer. This is certainly understandable. However, there are still users who want to continue running IBM i and MySQL. That’s why we’re happy to announce that...

Testing Fusion-io ioDrive – now with driver 3.1

By Vadim Tkachenko

In my previous post with results for Fusion-io ioDrive we saw some instability in results, I was pointed that it may be fixed in new drivers VSL 3.1.1. I am not sure if this driver is available for everyone – if you are interested, please contact your...

Load management Techniques for MySQL

By Peter Zaitsev

One of the very frequent cases with performance problems with MySQL is what they happen every so often or certain times. Investigating them we find out what the cause is some batch jobs, reports and other non response time critical activities are overloading...

Testing Virident FlashMAX 1400

By Vadim Tkachenko

I still continue to run benchmarks of different SSD cards. This time I show numbers for Virident FlashMAX 1400. This is a MLC PCIe SSD device. There are couple notes on these results. First, this time I use a different server. For this benchmark it is Cisco...

Testing Fusion-io ioDrive

By Vadim Tkachenko

Following my series of posts on testing different SSD, in my last post I mentioned that SATA SSD performance is getting closer to PCIe cards. It really makes sense to test it under MySQL workload, but before getting to that, let me review the same workload...

Zero-Downtime Schema Changes In MySQL

By Baron Schwartz

The recording of yesterday’s webinar, as well as a PDF of my slide deck, is now available. You can watch the recording and get the slides here. I got a lot of questions, and did not have enough time to answer all of them, so let me try to answer some...