Category Archives: MySQL

Recent events and videos

By ivanov | Published: May 2, 2010

Monty’s Google Tech Talk 2010 O’Reilly MySQL Conference Slides and Videos Project Voldemort: Scaling Simple Storage — LinkedIn The NOSQL-Environment (Not Only SQL) In short, NOSQL databases can be categorized according to their data model into the following four categories: Key-Value-stores BigTable-implementations Document-stores Graph Databases 24.05.2010 Update: More links on NoSQL as it seems to become a really popular topic and [...]

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Running Sysbench 0.4.12 on Ubuntu 9.04

By ivanov | Published: October 17, 2009

I decided to try benchmarking MySQL 5 with Sysbench 0.4.12 but as it turned out it was not so easy task.First I followed the steps as described by the dbadojo blog: Download last version of Sysbench tar -xzvf sysbench-0.4.XX.tar.gz cd sysbench-0.4.XX ./configure && make && make install But the compiling wasn’t done and I get a strange error: ../libtool: line 2412: [...]

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Tunning MySQL InnoDB performance

By ivanov | Published: June 30, 2009

Tunning MySQL InnoDB storage engine is not an easy task. It’s more like a game where you set mini goals and then try to find the right value and achieve them. Playing with the InnoDB variables is an art where you have to check your performance results each time you change a configuration parameter. [...]