With our recent release of TokuMX 1.0, we’ve made some bold claims about how fast TokuMX can run MongoDB workloads. In this post, I want to dig into one of the big areas of improvement, write performance and reduced I/O.

One of the innovations of TokuMX is that it eliminates a long-held rule of databases: to get good write performance, the working set of your indexes should fit in memory. The standard reasoning goes along the lines of: if your indexes’ working set does not fit in memory, then your writes will induce I/O, you will become I/O bound, and performance will suffer. So, either make sure your indexes fit in …

Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support (LEMP) On Ubuntu 13.04

Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on an Ubuntu 13.04 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP) .

MySQL Connector/Net 6.7.4, a new version of the all-managed .NET driver for MySQL has been released.  This is the GA, is feature complete. It is recommended for production environments.  It is appropriate for use with MySQL server versions 5.0-5.7.

New features include WinRT Connector, Load Balancing support, Entity Framework 5 and Memcached. 

“We went down the path of building Oracle NoSQL database because of explicit request from some of our largest Oracle Berkeley DB installations that wanted to move away from maintaining home grown sharding implementations and very much wanted an out of box technology that can replicate the robustness of what they had built “out of [...]

Yesterday Dominis mentioned shell-foo and one cool thing came to my mind what one of my ex colleagues showed me a few years ago. (Hi Pali!)

So let’s pretend you have to locate pid of mysql process. You run the good old ps command, and grep for mysql:

[banyek@sql-master1.bfc ~]$ ps -ef | grep mysql
root      1751     1  0 Jul01 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/sql-master1.bfc.kinja.com.pid
mysql     2424  1751 88 Jul01 ?        21:59:18 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --plugin-dir=/usr/lib64/mysql/plugin --user=mysql --log-error=/var/log/mysql/mysql-error.log --open-files-limit=65535 --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/sql-master1.bfc.kinja.com.pid --socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
banyek    4630  4360  0 11:31 pts/0    00:00:00 grep mysql
[banyek@sql-master1.bfc ~]$

There is one small problem: the grep will find itself too, so if you want count …

Since MySQL recently implemented the following feature request (and discussed here and here) to help foster communication among public bugs and feature requests, and to provide a way to allow the Community to voice whether or not a bug affects them, I decided to file another feature request that I think would even further encourage communication amongst an already vibrant community, and that is to simply:

“Please make all bugs public”

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=69642

And thanks to the new bugs feature, if you would like to see this implemented as well, please click on the …

In computer performance, we’re especially concerned about latency outliers: very slow database queries, application requests, disk I/O, etc. The term “outlier” is subjective: there is no rigid mathematical definition. From [Grubbs 69]:

An outlying observation, or “outlier,” is one that appears to deviate markedly from other members of the sample in which it occurs.

Outliers are commonly detected by comparing the maximum value in a data set to a custom threshold, such as 50 or 100 ms for disk I/O. This requires the metric to be well understood beforehand, as is usually the case for application latency and other key metrics. However, we are also often faced with a large number of unfamiliar metrics, where we don’t know the thresholds in advance.

There are a number of …

July 2, 2013 By Severalnines

Joomla! is estimated to be the second most used CMS on the internet after WordPress, with users like eBay, IKEA, Sony, McDonald’s and Pizza Hut. In this post, we will describe how to scale Joomla on multiple servers. This architecture not only allows the CMS to handle more users, by load-balancing traffic across multiple servers. It also brings high availability by providing fail-over between servers.

This post is similar to our previous posts on web application scalability and high availability:

• Drupal - Apache, MySQL Galera Cluster, csync2 with lsyncd
• Wordpress - Apache, Percona XtraDB Cluster, …

This post is an introduction on how to use the new support  for spatial data types with Entity Framework 5.0 on applications with MySQL and Connector/Net.

The MySQL Connect conference is a great opportunity to listen to and chat with people from the MySQL community – including the engineers who work on or around MySQL as well people who are using it in production. The conference takes place from 21-23 September in San Francisco (runs up to Oracle OpenWorld). There are 84 sessions scheduled and the content catalog has now been published.
 
I’ll be presenting …