Author Archives: Tim Callaghan

MySQL Conference and Expo Talk on Benchmarking

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I’ll be speaking on April 11th at 4:30 pm in Room 4 in at the Percona Conference and Expo Talk. The topic will be “Creating a Benchmark Infrastructure That Just Works.

Throughout my career I’ve…

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1 Billion Insertions – The Wait is Over!

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iiBench measures the rate at which a database can insert new rows while maintaining several secondary indexes. We ran this for 1 billion rows with TokuDB and InnoDB starting last week, right after we launched TokuDB

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Fractal Tree Indexes and Mead – MySQL Meetup

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Thanks again to Sheeri Cabral  for having me at the Boston MySQL Meetup on Monday for the talk on “Fractal Tree® Indexes – Theoretical Overview and Customer Use Cases.” The crowd was very interactive, and I appreciated that over 50 people…

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Fractal Tree Indexes – MySQL Meetup

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At next month’s Boston MySQL Meetup, I will give a talk: “Fractal Tree Indexes – Theoretical Overview and Customer Use Cases.” The meetup is 7 pm Monday, January 9th, 2012, and will be held at

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TokuDB v5.0.6 is Now Available

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This version includes support for “SELECT … FOR UPDATE” as well as displaying table “create time” and “last update time” via “SHOW TABLE STATUS”. The release also addresses a number of other bugs and fixes such as “point update”…

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TokuDB Stats

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I’ve been benchmarking and testing TokuDB for a few months now. One goal of benchmarking is to understand what is limiting the performance of a particular configuration. I frequently use “show engine [innodb/tokudb] status;” from within the MySQL command line…

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Compression Benchmarking: Size vs. Speed (I want...

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I’m creating a library of benchmarks and test suites that will run as part of a Continuous Integration (CI) process here at Tokutek. My goal is to regularly measure several aspects of our storage engine over time: performance,…

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