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MySQL and Percona Server in LinkBench benchmark

Around month ago Facebook has announced the title="linkbench" href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/linkbench-a-database-benchmark-for-the-social-graph/10151391496443920">Linkbench benchmark that models the social graph OLTP workload. Sources, along with a very nice description of how to setup and run this benchmark, can be found href="https://github.com/facebook/linkbench">here.

Percona XtraBackup 2.1.0 ‘release candidate’ for MySQL available for download

href="http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Percona_XtraBackup.jpg"> class="alignleft size-full wp-image-12668" alt="Percona XtraBackup for MySQL" src="http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Percona_XtraBackup.jpg" width="229" height="87" />Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.1.0-rc1 on May 7, 2013. Downloads are available from our download site href="http://www.percona.com/downloads/XtraBackup/XtraBackup-2.1.0-rc1/">here.

MySQL 5.6 versus 4.0 for a read-only workload

I compared the performance of MySQL 5.6.11 versus 4.0.30 using a read-only workload with sysbench. Performance was much better for 5.6.11 in most cases. At low-concurrency MySQL 4.0 was a bit faster. MySQL 5.6.11 was faster at high-concurrency and when doing many page reads per second. The product has improved a lot since I started using MySQL.

Benchmarking Percona Server TokuDB vs InnoDB

After compiling href="http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2013/04/24/percona-server-5-5-30-with-tokudb-for-mysql/" target="_blank">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 for that), so it will produce all good amount of reads.

opeark-kit revision 196 released

This is a long due maintenance release of openark-kit. This release includes bugfixes and some enhancements, mainly to oak-online-alter-table.

oak-online-alter-table Changes / bug fixes include:

Percona XtraBackup 2.0.7 for MySQL available for download

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class="wp-caption-text">Percona XtraBackup 2.0.7 was released May 6.

Percona Toolkit 2.2.2 released; bug fixes include pt-heartbeat & pt-archiver

During the href="http://www.percona.com/live/mysql-conference-2013/">Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2013 the week before last, we quietly released Percona Toolkit 2.2.2 with a few bug fixes:

MySQL is Better Than Ever for the Web

Whether you are a developer who wants to use MySQL and PHP to build and maintain websites or if you want to learn how MySQL and PHP can be used for the rapid prototyping and development of dynamic websites, the MySQL and PHP - Developing Dynamic Web Applications training course is for you.

This four day, live, instructor-led course is available as a:

MySQL Sandbox supports latest MySQL releases, has more metadata and docs

MySQL Sandbox has been updated again. The latest version is 3.0.38, which was just released. There were four releases in the space of one week, and this last one is just a polished edition.

Keeping your Drupal from Drooping — part 1

This is the first screen after a sucessful Drupal 7.22 install.

This is the first screen after a sucessful Drupal 7.22 install.

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