We've all heard the hype.  MySQL 5.6 is packed with amazing new features that address all our database problems.  5.6 deals with replication and HA and performance and monitoring and security and features.  It just may cure cancer.

In fact it's been out for ages.  It went GA  …

Introduction

Evaluating the performance of database systems is a very demanding task. There are a lot of hard choices to be made, e.g.:

• What operating system and operating system version is to be used
• What configuration setup is to be used
• What benchmarks are to be used and how long are the warm-up and measure times
• What test setups are to be used
• What version of the database management system is used
• What storage engine is used

While performance evaluation is mostly machine time, there is still a lot of hard work for the human monitoring the tests. In this blog post we have made following choices:

• We’re using an Intel Xeon E5-2690 @ 2.9GHz CPU containing 32-cores and Linux 3.4.12 with 132G main memory. The database is stored on a Fusion-IO ioDrive2 Duo 2.41TB Firmware v7.2.5, rev 110646, using Driver 3.3.4 build 5833069. The …

This is the story of cold blocks and mismatched instances and how they will cause you pain and cost you money until you understand why. Most of the clients that we support run on the Amazon cloud using either RDS … Continue reading →

MySQL Fabric is a tool included on MySQL Utilities that helps you to manage your MySQL instances.
It works by basically adding a new layer between your application and MySQL instances, which can provide an easy way to use sharding and build a high available system.

For More information about what is MySQL Fabric, please follow the documentation.

To install our Fabric environment, we will have to configure 4 servers, I will use the follow names and IP on this tutorial:

fabric1 (192.168.0.200) - fabric
mysql1 (192.168.0.201) - mysql master
mysql2 (192.168.0.202) - mysql slave
mysql3 (192.168.0.203) - mysql slave

Note: I’m running CentOS 6.5 on all servers.

1. Add mysql repo on all 4 machines, please read …

On Wednesday I gave a presentation on “How to Avoid Even More Common (but Deadly) MySQL Development Mistakes” for Percona MySQL Webinars.  If you missed it, you can still register to view the recording and my slides.

Thanks to everyone who attended, and especially to folks who asked the great questions.  I answered as many as we had time for  during the session, but here are all the questions with my complete answers:

Q: Disk bandwidth also not infinite

Indeed, you’re right! …

InnoDB has proven to be a reliable data storage engine for modern, high concurrency database systems. It is fully ACID compliant, and supports a wide range of isolation modes, from READ-UNCOMMITEED to SERIALIZABLE.

InnoDB multiversion concurrency control (MVCC) enables records and tables to be updated without the overhead associated with row-level locking mechanisms. The MVCC implementation in InnoDB largely eliminates the need to lock tables or rows during updates, and enables good performance for high concurrency workloads.

To learn more about this subject and related performance tuning topics tuning, take the MySQL Performance Tuning training course. This 4-day, instructor-led course is available as:

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In the latest release of MySQL Utilities 1.4.3 GA, the performance of the mysqldbcompare utility has been considerably improved along with some bug fixes. This blog briefly explains some of the improvements that were made and shows evidence of the increased performance of database comparison.

• A new step was added to the data consistency check. It now executes a full table checksum, which is faster when no differences are expected. The algorithm to find row differences is only executed if this preliminary table
  checksum fails.

• A new --skip-checksum-table option was added to skip this new step should you wish to (when you know there are differences it saves a bit of time).

• The current algorithm to find row differences was optimized to internally store and access the generated hash values.

What follows are some examples comparing the world database with …

Optimization involves improving the performance of a database server and queries that run against it. Optimization reduces query execution time and optimized queries benefit everyone that uses the server. When the server runs more smoothly and processes more queries with less, it performs better as a whole. To learn more about how a MySQL developer can make a difference with optimization, take the MySQL Developers training course.

This 5-day instructor-led course is available as:

• Live-Virtual Event: Attend a live class from your own desk - no travel required. Choose from a selection of events on the schedule to suit different timezones.
• In-Class Event: Travel to an education center to attend an event. Below is a selection of the …

If you read Yoshinori's post about Semi-sync at Facebook, he lists the objective of using semi-sync as an alternative to running full durability on a master. That is to say that once you can guarantee writes have safely been shipped across the network, you may not strictly need to guarantee that they are safe locally.

This is something that I have been wanting to benchmark for a long time, and reading Jay's post about Semi-sync replication performance in MySQL 5.7 DMR4 and a conversation in last week's #dbhangops inspired me to explore this in more detail. For my tests, I will be using Master-Slave replication and three alternative definitions of durability:

• Local …

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My previous post covered the work needed to get MySQL 5.6.17 running reliably on modern POWER systems. The patch to MySQL 5.6.17 that’s needed is available here.

For those who don’t know, POWER8 is the latest Power Architecture processors from IBM (my employer). These chips will be available in systems from IBM in June 2014 (i.e. Real Soon Now(TM)). There’s some fairly …