Why should you care about the latest “early adopter” release of the InnoDB Plugin, version 1.0.3? One word: performance! The release introduces these features:
- Enhanced concurrency & scalability: the “Google SMP patch” using atomic instructions for mutexing
- More efficient memory allocation: ability to use more scalable platform memory allocator
- Improved out-of-the-box scalability: unlimited concurrent thread execution by default
- Dynamic tuning: at run-time, enable or disable insert buffering and adaptive hash indexing
These new performance features can yield up to twice the throughput or more, depending on your workload, platform and other tuning considerations. In another post, we explore some details about these changes, but first, what do these enhancements mean for performance and scalability?
In brief, we’ve tested …
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