High Anxiety Whenever You’re Near

Published on 26 April 2009 by bradley in TokuView

Every time I visit the Sun Santa Clara Campus, I’m reminded of Mel Brooks’s movie “High Anxiety”. The campus was known as The Great Asylum for the Insane in the 19th century, and even includes a tower. High Anxiety, whenever you’re near. High Anxiety, it’s you that I fear. I went to the MySQL Storage [...]

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TokuDB Storage Engine for MySQL

Published on 17 April 2009 by Tom Hotchkiss in TokuView

Tokutek officially announced the TokuDB for MySQL v2.0 Storage Engine, v2.0 on April 16th, 2009. TokuDB uses Fractal Tree (TM) technology to boost MySQL performance for users challenged with interactive querying in high volume, always-on applications. As a pure SW storage engine, TokuDB provides drop-in compatibility for existing MySQL code and applications. Curt Monash posted [...]

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Improving TPC-H-like Queries – Q2

Published on 10 April 2009 by bradley in TokuView

Posted by Bradley C. Kuszmaul and David Wells Executive Summary: A MySQL straight join can speed up a query that is very similar to TPC-H Q2 by a factor of 159 on MySQL. Recently, we began looking at TPC-H performance on MySQL. Our early tests yielded unexpectedly poor performance for MyISAM, InnoDB and the Tokutek [...]

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Mark Callaghan recently developed and released an enhanced Python version of Tokutek’s iiBench benchmark (Thanks Mark!). We’re happy to see a Python version of the benchmark as it can now more easily be run by a broader group of people in more diverse environments. Going forward, we will continue building upon Mark’s work on the [...]

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iiBench with deletes

Published on 29 January 2009 by bradley in TokuView

We modified the iiBench benchmark to perform deletions as well as insertions, and compared InnoDB to Tokutek’s Fractal TreeTM storage engine, both running on MySQL 5.1. I’ll post the revised iiBench tarball soon. Here is what the performance looks like: The iiBench-with-deletions benchmark works as follows. The benchmark employs a fact table with an autoincremented [...]

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iiBench Fractal Tree Results

Published on 23 January 2009 by bradley in TokuView

A few weeks ago I reported InnoDB performance on the iiBench 1-billion row insert test. Today I’m reporting on Tokutek’s Fractal TreeTM storage engine performance. We ran iiBench on the same hardware (Sun x4150, 8 cores @ 3.16GHz, 16GB memory, 6 SAS disk HW RAID 0) using Tokutek’s storage engine for MySQL. The performance looks [...]

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iiBench Contest Results

Published on 20 January 2009 by bradley in TokuView

At OpenSQL Camp in November we presented a challenge to insert one billion rows, maintaining indexes, into a MySQL table. The best results we have seen are:

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iiBench Contest Updates

Published on 08 January 2009 by bradley in TokuView

We re-ran iiBench based on Mark Callaghan’s excellent work. We used standard InnoDB engine in MySQL 5.1 without the Google or Percona patches. Our hardware is similar to Mark’s except we used a 6-disk hardware RAID 0, whereas Mark employed a 10-disk software RAID 0. We ran on the same hardware as we did before, [...]

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iiBench configuration

Published on 05 December 2008 by bradley in TokuView

A tip of the hat to Mark Callaghan, who suggested I post our my.cnf settings for iiBench. Instead of fiddling around with the configuration file, we adjusted everything on the command line. Here’s the relevant script from iiBench/scripts/start_mysql.sh:

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iiBench Contest

Published on 05 December 2008 by bradley in TokuView

I’d like to advertise my previous iiBench posting again (now that we are feeding into PlanetMySQL.)

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