Pre-UC I put out a teaser on some dbt2 scores in the 50K range.   I mentioned and showed the graphs during my SSD session, but I thought I would show them here for those who skipped the UC or did not attend my session.  Basically what most people consider to be a classic “CPU Bound” workload where all of your data easily fits into memory can also see benefits from moving to SSD’s. Remember just because everything fits into memory doesn’t mean your not going to be doing some operations to disk ( logging, flushes, etc ). Take a look:

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 Engine (SE) Summit held on the Sun
campus in Santa Clara.  I thought it was a great meeting, and many
thanks to Sanjay for inviting us.  Also attending from Tokutek were
Zardosht and Tom.  We heard interesting points of view from SE
implementers such as Akiba, ScaleDB, InnoDB, PBXT, and Virident, as
well as from the Sun/MySQL implementors.  Here are a few highlights:

Everyone agrees that the Storage Engine (SE) API needs better
documentation.

The InnoDB team suggested that one approach …

I'm constantly going out to customers and looking at their database environments and the challenges they are facing. Of course, sometimes my perspective can be rather unique because customers never invite me in to show me how fast their databases are or how great things are. Usually by the time I get called in, the environment has gotten very dynamic.What never ceases to amaze me is how on

I’m writing this entry on my way back to Tokyo from Narita. So, I was in the US all week for MySQL UC, Percona Performance Conference and the Drizzle Developer Day. It was great to meet new people and also catch up with developer friends from all over the world. These events are great excuse to bring together folks that work together online and receive the free beers that were promised on IRC. Looking back, the week just flew! I can’t believe I’m back in Japan already.

What wasn’t pleasant however was Drizzle being introduced as “MySQL Drizzle” and described as MySQL’s technology incubator at the opening keynote. The truth is, Drizzle is a community driven project that is not affiliated with any commercial organization. The project is …

There are a number of new and enhanced storage engines that promise increased scalability, performance and important new online features. All this competition with storage engines is going to create a win for the MySQL community. This competition is what open source is all about. If you do not continue to innovate and improve you cannot expect to be a leader in the open source world. The nice

What is the future of MySQL? This is a question that interests many.

To be specific: Will there be significant performance improvements? Code contributions? Bug fixes? New features? Open Source licensed documentation? Will the users be happy with the Monthly Rapid Updates now released for the MySQL Community Server?

On another, more competitive level: Will there be successful forks? What will the MySQL AB founders do? What is Percona’s next move?

Julian Cash, known for his visionary photography, extended his scope during a Wednesday session at the MySQL Conference. Hard work during his predictive session gave me insight. I now know the answers.

However, I’m afraid I cannot share the revelations on this blog. What I can do, though, is to point to Julian Cash’s site “The Human Creativity Project”, and to the visible results of his other …

The development model for MySQL Enterprise took a big step forward with the new community process Karen Padir announced in her Tuesday keynote. This is great for both the open source server as well as enterprise customers, because the closer the tie between the community and the development path, the better the quality and faster the progress towards new functionality. I'm not entirely sure everyone at Sun still completely understands why a working community process is a benefit for the enterprise customer base, but I'm happy steps are made in the right direction, and it seems to me that Karen Padir is going to be a good leader for the product.

A big improvement, for sure, and still there's more to improve …

This was an interesting week for sure. Of course, we all know it started with a bit of a shock news, but that's not nearly the most interesting bit about the conference. I'm posting a series of cleaned-up notes and opinions about what I saw there as I finish them. Will also try to link to further information where I've seen good notes. Please leave more links in the comments if you have any!

• My own presentation materials and the extended articles on data domains and log processing
• …

Way back on Monday (at the MySQL Conference and Expo), I gave a full day tutorial on MySQL Cluster. I awoke early in the morning to a “oh ha ha” URL in an IM; but no, it wasn’t jetlag playing tricks with me. Luckily, this didn’t take much (if anything) away from the purpose of the day: teaching people about NDB.

Distracting-and-this-time-really-annoying-thing-of-the-day-2: It seems that O’Reilly had cut back on power this year, and there were no power boards in the room. A full day interactive tutorial, and nowhere to plug in laptops. Hrrm.. Luckily, having over the many years I’ve been speaking at this event, I’ve gotten to …

Special thanks to all those who came out for the MySQL Workbench Tutorial and Workshop sessions, I hope they were of use to you.

The materials are now online. A PDF of the slides is available here and a video of the slides and speaker is available here. These materials are also listed on my Presentations page.

Please note that the video is RTSP streaming MP4, allowing you to jump around the video at will. You’ll need Quicktime, VLC or another appropriate player to view it. I’m trying something new with the built in camera on my laptop, providing a video image of the speaker along with the slides. Let me know what you …