Benchmark

Do not trust other peoples benchmarks!

Because they do NOT reflect your problems.

One of our customers upgraded last month from MariaDB 10.2 to MariaDB 10.5. In the same change he also converted all his data warehouse (DWH)/BI tables from MyISAM to Aria. An all this, naturally, without testing. And it miserably failed! And then we were under heavy time pressure to make things working again…

What has changed:

  • MariaDB version: MariaDB optimizer got a lot of changes between these 4 major release series (10.2, 10.3, 10.4 and 10.5)!
  • Storage …

MySQL vs. PostgreSQL

Im Admin-Magazin 2011/06 hat es einen netten Artikel über MySQL und PostgreSQL Performance Tuning: Duell der Datenbanken: In einem Shootout messen sich MySQL und PostgreSQL

Susanne hat dabei PostgreSQL, wir MySQL betreut…

MySQL JMeter Webshop Benchmark

Abstract: In this article we provide a little JMeter WebShop Example Benchmark for MySQL.

For our Advanced MySQL Developer Workshop we have one exercise Benchmarking MySQL with JMeter. For this exercise we are using the FoodMart-2.0
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] Schema and simulating a simple WebShop Transaction:

  • Logging in
  • Put some articles into the basket
  • Buy the articles
  • Log out

I found it pretty hard to find good and detailed examples how to do this with JMeter and I wasted a lot of time searching and figuring out how it …

How good is MySQL INSERT TRIGGER performance

Abstract: In this article we discuss how big is the performance impact of MySQL TRIGGERs compared to application side logging (with INSERT) into a MySQL table.

What was in my mind from the past

A while ago when MySQL released its Stored Language features in v5.0 I have seen a book
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] about this topic. In this book was a performance comparison between different implementations of computational tasks, one was done in MySQL Stored Language. The result was, that MySQL Stored Language feature sucks also …

Some more benchmarks added

We have added some more database benchmarks to our collection.

More details you can find on our Benchmarking page.

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