History is repeating again. MongoDB is breaking out of the niche into the mainstream, performance and instrumentation are terrible in specific cases, MongoDB isn’t able to fix all the problems alone, and an ecosystem is growing.

This should really be a series of blog posts, because there’s a book’s worth of things happening, but I’ll summarize instead. Randomly ordered:

• MongoDB is in many respects closely following MySQL’s development, 10 years offset. Single index per query, MyISAM-like storage engine, etc. Background.
• Tokutek built an excellent transactional storage engine and replaced MongoDB’s, calling it TokuMX. Results were dramatically better performance (plus ACID). MongoDB’s response was to buy WiredTiger and make it the default storage engine in MongoDB 3.0.
• Percona acquired …

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Out-of-order parallel replication is a great feature in MariaDB 10.0 that improves replication performance by committing independent transactions in parallel on a slave. If slave_parallel_threads is greater than 0, then the SQL thread will instruct multiple worker threads to concurrently apply transactions with different domain IDs.

If an application is setting the domain ID, and if parallel replication is enabled in MariaDB, then out-of-order parallel replication should mostly work automatically. However, depending on an …

At Yahoo, we manage a massive number of MySQL databases spread across multiple data centers. 

In order to identify and respond to performance issues, we rely on an extremely lightweight and robust web based tool to proactively investigate the issues in them.

The tool has real time tracking features and continually gathers the most important performance metrics, provides visualization and statistical analysis for quickly identifying performance patterns, bottlenecks and possible tuning opportunities.

Features

Lightweight Agentless Java Web Application
Rich User Interface
Gather and Store performance metrics 
Detect anomalies and send alerts
Access to Real time Performance data

Open Source

Today, we’re releasing MySQL Performance Analyzer. You can check out the code on …

General-purpose MySQL applications should read MySQL option files like /etc/my.cnf, ~/.my.cnf, ... and ~/.mylogin.cnf. But ~/.mylogin.cnf is encrypted. That's a problem for our ocelotgui GUI application, and I suppose other writers of Linux applications could face the same problem, so I'll share the code we'll use to solve it.

First some words of defence. I think that encryption (or more correctly obfuscation) is okay as an option: a customer asked for it, and it prevents the most casual snoopers -- rather like a low fence: anyone can get over it, but making it a bit troublesome will make most passersby pass by. I favoured the idea, though other MySQL employees were against it on the old "false sense of security" argument. After all, by …

In part one of this post, I gave you a couple examples of how to backup your MySQL databases using mysqldump. In part two, I will show you how to use the MySQL Enterprise Backup (MEB) to create a full and partial backup.

MySQL Enterprise Backup provides enterprise-grade backup and recovery for MySQL. It delivers hot, online, non-blocking backups on multiple platforms including Linux, Windows, Mac & Solaris. To learn more, you may download a …

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Last week, I wrote about how to use bash arrays and the MySQL database to create unit and integration test scripts. While the MySQL example was nice for some users, there were some others who wanted me to show how to write bash shell scripts for Oracle unit and integration testing. That’s what this blog post does.

If you don’t know much about bash shell, you should start with the prior post to learn about bash arrays, if-statements, and for-loops. In this blog post I only cover how to implement a bash shell script that runs SQL scripts in silent mode and then queries the database in silent mode and writes the output to an external file.

I’ve copied the basic ERD for the example because of a request from a reader. In their opinion it makes cross referencing the …

Hi,

When I run command : radiusd -X
I get error :
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rlm_sql (sql): Released connection (4)
/etc/raddb/mods-enabled/redis[10]: Failed to link to module ‘rlm_redis': rlm_redis.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
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Can you help?
Thanks,

Unexpected downtime is one of your worst nightmares, but most attempts to find problems before they happen are threshold-based. Thresholds create noise, and alerts create false positives so often you may miss actual problems.

When we began building VividCortex, we introduced Adaptive Fault Detection, a feature to detect problems through a combination of statistical anomaly detection and queueing theory. It’s our patent-pending technique to detect system stalls in the database and disk. These are early indicators of serious problems, so it’s really helpful to find them. (Note: “fault” is kind of an ambiguous term for some people. In the context we’re using here, it means a stall/pause/freeze/lockup).

The initial version of fault detection enabled us to find hidden problems nobody suspected, but as our customer base diversified, we found more situations that could fool it. We’ve released a new version that …

This Log Buffer edition covers Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL blog posts from all over the blogosphere!

Oracle:

Hey DBAs:  You know you can  install and run Oracle Database 12c on different platforms, but if you install it on an Oracle Solaris 11 zone, you can take additional advantages.

Here is a video with Oracle VP of Global Hardware Systems Harish Venkat talking with Aaron De Los Reyes, Deputy Director at Cognizant about his company’s explosive growth & how they managed business functions, applications, and supporting infrastructure for success.

Oracle …