A few days ago I came across the announcement that MaxScale 1.3 finally supports Persistent Connection.

ProxySQL has supported Persistent Connection since it was a prototype (sometime back in 2013). I am therefore very happy that the MaxScale Team finally introduced a long awaited feature.

However, MaxScale's implementation has a serious drawback and I consider it a serious bug (more details towards the end of the article). A bug so serious that it shouldn't reach any GA release.

I like running benchmarks, and given the new feature in MaxScale, I thought it a good time to compare ProxySQL vs MaxScale again. It's been around 6 months since the previous benchmark.

ProxySQL vs MaxScale Benchmark setup

The benchmark setup is very simple:

• a physical server (20 CPU cores) running sysbench, proxysql and maxscale
• a physical server (20 CPU cores) running 3 mysqld …

The previous post in the EXPLAIN FORMAT=JSON is Cool! series showed an example of the query

select dept_name from departments where dept_no in (select dept_no from dept_manager where to_date is not null)

, where the subquery was materialized into a temporary table and then joined with the outer query. This is known as a semi-join optimization. But what happens if we turn off this optimization?

EXPLAIN FORMAT=JSON

 can help us with this investigation too. …

Naturally, I ran into this problem in the middle of the night when the client was asleep and I had no access to the Magento administrative interface. The short story is that after running a re-index of the site, the home page began returning a 404 erro...

We could use inotify-tools to monitor file or directory IO state

yum install inotify-tools

#inotifywait -m /storage/sas/mysql3306/data/diablo_im/#sql-ib4747-2643139248.ibd

Setting up watches.                                                                
Watches established.                                                               
/storage/sas/mysql3306/data/diablo_im/#sql-ib4747-2643139248.ibd MODIFY            
/storage/sas/mysql3306/data/diablo_im/#sql-ib4747-2643139248.ibd MODIFY            
/storage/sas/mysql3306/data/diablo_im/#sql-ib4747-2643139248.ibd MODIFY            
/storage/sas/mysql3306/data/diablo_im/#sql-ib4747-2643139248.ibd MODIFY            
/storage/sas/mysql3306/data/diablo_im/#sql-ib4747-2643139248.ibd MODIFY            
/storage/sas/mysql3306/data/diablo_im/#sql-ib4747-2643139248.ibd MODIFY …

The source of this post is in this gist on nbviewer.

After reading about the difference between MySQL Connector/Python and MySQLdb on this blog post I wondered how the C Extension option in Connector/Python would perform.

If you want to run the code yourself you'll need: Jupyter/IPython, Python 3, Requests, MySQLdb, Connector/Python, Matplotlib, Pandas and MySQL.

In [1]:

%matplotlib notebook

In [2]:

import random
import gzip
import time

import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import requests
import mysql.connector
import MySQLdb
for imp in [mysql.connector, MySQLdb]:
    print('Using {imp} {version}'.format(imp=imp.__name__, version=imp.__version__))
print('C Extension for …

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Usually when one says “SSL” or “TLS” it means not a specific protocol but a family of protocols. Wikipedia article has the details, but in short — SSL 2.0 and SSL 3.0 are deprecated and should not be used anymore (the well-known POODLE vulnerability exploits the flaw in SSL 3.0). TLS 1.0 is sixteen years […]

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We recently released the GA version of Percona Server for MongoDB, which comes with a variety of storage engines: RocksDB, PerconaFT and WiredTiger.

Both RocksDB and PerconaFT are write-optimized engines, so I wanted to compare all engines in a workload oriented to data ingestions.

For a benchmark I used iiBench-mongo (https://github.com/mdcallag/iibench-mongodb), and I inserted one billion (bln) rows into a collection with three indexes. Inserts were done in ten parallel threads.

For memory limits, I used a 10GB as the cache size, with a total limit of 20GB available for the mongod process, …

Many thanks to everyone who took the time yesterday to participate in our last webinar of 2015! Here are the recording of the session as well as the slides that were used by our colleague Art van Scheppingen, Senior Support Engineer, on the topic of Polyglot Persistence for the MongoDB, MySQL & PostgreSQL DBA.

Webinar Replay:

Webinar Slides:

Agenda

During this webinar, Art discussed the four major operational challenges for MySQL, MongoDB & PostgreSQL:

• Deployment
• Management
• Monitoring
• Scaling
• And how to deal with them

And demonstrated, using ClusterControl, how Polyglot Persistence for datastores can be managed from one central control centre. To find out more, feel free to contact us.

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