So we have already looked at sysbench & dbt2 tests… now we have to look at the new Juice DB benchmark. Juice runs a series of queries generate its load, these queries are combined into a workload. I tested the v1010 with a mixed workload ( mix of short & long updates and selects ), a mixed simple workload ( mix of short running updates and selects ) , and a read only ( selects which are designed to hit the disk ) . Because this is still an evolving benchmark I am including results from an Intel MLC drive (note these boxes are vastly different).  Keep in mind this is not a completely fair comparison. The Intel drive is not the enterprise class drive, but even with the SLC drive I don’t think its a fair comparison. The price difference between these two solutions is ~$50/GB -vs- ~$12.5GB.

The setup for this test created about a 20GB database, with each of the 3 large tables coming in around 6 GB each. I tested primarily with a 768M …

Just released 0.7 of the SabreDAV library. This release implements some of the more obscure WebDAV features, and a plugin system.

Some changes:

• Basic plugin system.
• Comes with a plugin to display html indexes for browsers.
• Sabre_DAV_FilterTree is now Sabre_DAV_Tree_Filter.
• Sabre_DAV_TemporaryFileFilter is now Sabre_DAV_Tree_TemporaryFileFilter.

Full changelog.

Any help is greatly appreciated. I'm finding this taking up a large amount of my free time, so anyone interested in documenting, fixing bugs, writing tests, implementing additional webdav rfc's, making logo's definitely send a message to …

As mentioned previously, Monty Widenius is starting his new company based on some interesting premises. With Zak Greant they have co-authored a pamflet where they outline a blueprint for Open Source companies. In many ways this could be considered the "Dogme 95" of Open Source businesses:-)

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This latest change also means that MySQL Sandbox will be available through the CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, for the uninitiated).
The next step will be to include this package in Linux distros (Ubuntu, …

Quick note I got memcached 1.3.2 working with waffle. I added a lot more code then I needed, and I think I may be able to get this down to a 1 or 2 line patch… In case your interested in a slightly bloated waffle version of 1.3.2 its here: https://code.launchpad.net/~yonkovim/wafflegrid/memcached-1.3.2

I will clean this up this week and push a better more streamlined version then.

At least since early 2006, at the MySQL Athens meeting where I first met and listened to Jim Starkey, I have been of the firm conviction that log structured databases will be the future for disc-based storage devices. Their largely sequential write pattern ideally suits modern drives which are optimized to write whole tracks of data at a time. I even proposed such a project to Monty and Brian at

Sometimes you just have to laugh at the crazy things that can kill a good evening. I had this brilliant idea to change our replication setup on one of our Master-Master replication server setups this week. I got sick of having to restart MySQL every time we wanted to add a new database and have it included in the list of replicated databases - we were using replicate-do-db in our configs.So it

Sun's Open Cloud Vision unveilled: Open Cloud Platform, an open infrastructure powered by Java, MySQL, OpenSolaris, and Open Storage software technologies.  Open APIs, Open formats and Open source.

On March 18th, at CommunityONE aka CloudONE, Sun unveiled the open cloud platform for powering public and private clouds. We also  announced that we are building our own Public Cloud. This will include a Storage and Compute Cloud. Our Cloud will be compatible with Amazon S3 and EC2 at the API level. Meaning, we will provide S3 and EC2 compatibility APIs in addition to our own, hence enabling an easy migration from Amazon services to Sun Cloud. All clouds - public, private or hybrid, built on Sun's Open Cloud platform will be interoperable and there will be minimal vendor lockin given the cloud platform will be built on open …

So I got our Waffle specific code over into Memcached 1.3.2 last night…  not 100% sure why at this point but I am seeing a huge change in the the hit rate between 1.2.5 and 1.3.2.  Take a look:

Old 1.2.5:

10290.89 new-order transactions per minute (NOTPM)

Server: 192.168.2.105 (11211)
pid: 16522
uptime: 2190
time: 1233504281
version: 1.2.5
pointer_size: 32
rusage_user: 23.753484
rusage_system: 127.611975
curr_items: 46800
total_items: 3487050
bytes: 769596712
curr_connections: 20
total_connections: 23
connection_structures: 21
cmd_get: 1752218
cmd_set: 1801081
get_hits: 1685969
get_misses: 66249
evictions: 1680669
bytes_read: 769596712
bytes_written: 769596712
limit_maxbytes: 805306368
threads: 1

New (1.3.2):
6695.67 new-order transactions per minute (NOTPM)

Server: localhost (11211)
         pid: 9778
         uptime: 2087
         time: 1238184346
         version: 1.3.2
         pointer_size: …