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May 19

Beyond great cache hit ratio #

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I worked with application recently which has great memcached hit ratio - over 99% but yet still has average page response time over 500ms.

May 10

FlashCache: first experiments #

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[read-only]

I wrote about FlashCache there, and since that I run couple benchmarks, to see what performance benefits we can expect.


Feb 28

Why you should ignore MySQL’s key cache hit ratio #

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I have not caused a fist fight in a while, so it's time to take off the gloves.

Jan 21

When should you store serialized objects in the database? #

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A while back Friendfeed posted a blog post explaining how they changed from storing data in MySQL columns to serializing data and just storing it...

Dec 13

Battle around MySQL heats up #

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As the deadline for EC to decide if Oracle can acquire Sun and hence MySQL is coming up the tensions seems to heat up.

Dec 4

Effect of adaptive_flushing #

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[db01-checkpt-age-1d]

I recently had the chance to witness the effects of innodb_adaptive_flushing on the performance of InnoDB Plugin 1.0.5 in the wild, which Yasufumi wrote about...


Oct 19

MySQL-Memcached or NOSQL Tokyo Tyrant – part 3 #

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[Tyrant -vs- memcached]

This is part 3 of our series.  In part 1 we talked about boosting performance with memcached on top of MySQL, in Part 2 we...


Oct 16

MySQL-Memcached or NOSQL Tokyo Tyrant – part 2 #

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[Benchmarks if everything is in memcached]

Part 1 of our series set-up our "test"  application and looked at boosting performance of the application by buffer MySQL with memcached.  Our test application...


Oct 15

MySQL-Memcached or NOSQL Tokyo Tyrant – part 1 #

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[DB Fits into Memory]

All to often people force themselves into using a database like MySQL with no thought into whether if its the best solution to there problem.


Oct 2

Analyzing air traffic performance with InfoBright and MonetDB #

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Accidentally me and Baron played with InfoBright (see http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/09/29/quick-comparison-of-myisam-infobright-and-monetdb/) this week.

Sep 12

3 ways MySQL uses indexes #

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I often see people confuse different ways MySQL can use indexing, getting wrong ideas on what query performance they should expect.

Aug 29

Give me 8 hours, and I’ll help you build a better application #

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I have run into a number of cases recently that all had a similar look and feel.

Aug 27

Looking at Redis #

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Recently I had a chance to take a look at Redis project, which is semi-persistent in memory database with idea somethat similar to memcache but...

Aug 3

XtraDB has been commited to MariaDB #

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If you do not follow MariaDB development, I want to head up XtraDB has been commited to MariaDB server and will be included in binary...

Jul 20

XtraDB storage engine release 1.0.3-6 #

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Dear community, Today we are pleased to announce release 6 of XtraDB – the result of 2 months hard work.

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