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pgBackRest is archived, what now?
pgBackRest is an open source backup and restore tool for PostgreSQL. It’s fair to say it’s one of the most popular options, widely used across the PostgreSQL ecosystem. On 27…
Incremental backups in Percona Kubernetes Operator for MySQL
Starting with version 1.1.0, the Percona Kubernetes Operator for MySQL now supports incremental backups. This feature lets you backup only the changed data since the last backup, instead of copying…
ClickHouse Monitoring and Observability Decision Points
Given ClickHouse’s ability to execute complex analytical queries across terabytes of data in a single operation, proper monitoring and observability is critical. Its distributed architecture and scalability add layers of…
ClickHouse Monitoring and Observability Decision Points
Given ClickHouse’s ability to execute complex analytical queries across terabytes of data in a single operation, proper monitoring and observability is critical. Its distributed architecture and scalability add layers of…
Symlinks are Unsafe since MySQL 8.0.39 (and maybe even before)
You read this right, symbolic links (symlinks) are unsafe in MySQL since at least 8.0.39. As always, it is a little more complicated than that, but if you are using…
Symlinks are Unsafe since MySQL 8.0.39 (and maybe even before)
You read this right, symbolic links (symlinks) are unsafe in MySQL since at least 8.0.39. As always, it is a little more complicated than that, but if you are using…
MySQL 9.7.0 vs sysbench on a small server
This has results from sysbench on a small server with MySQL 9.7.0 and 8.4.8. Sysbench is run with low concurrency (1 thread) and a cached database. The purpose is to…
Sysbench vs MySQL on a small server: another way to view the regressions
This post provides another way to see the performance regressions in MySQL from versions 5.6 to 9.7. It complements what I shared in a recent post. The workload here is cached…
The Insert Benchmark vs MariaDB 10.2 to 13.0 on a 32-core server
This has results for MariaDB versions 10.2 through 13.0 vs the Insert Benchmark on a 32-core server. The goal is to see how performance changes over time to find regressions or highlight…
The Insert Benchmark vs MariaDB 10.2 to 13.0 on a 24-core server
This has results for MariaDB versions 10.2 through 13.0 vs the Insert Benchmark on a 24-core server. The goal is to see how performance changes over time to find regressions or highlight…
Thanks AWS Open Source
I would like to thank AWS Open Source for their support. For some time, I am maintaining Planet for the MySQL Community, a blog / news aggregator for the MySQL Community/Ecosystem. …
Thanks AWS Open Source
I would like to thank AWS Open Source for their support. For some time, I am maintaining Planet for the MySQL Community, a blog / news aggregator for the MySQL Community/Ecosystem. …
The AWS Lambda ‘Kiss of Death’
Our story begins as most database issues start: with hands on foreheads, internally or externally, saying ‘WTF is going on?’. We observed a series of database freezes on our production…
Sysbench vs MariaDB on a small server: using the same charset for all versions
This has results for sysbench vs MariaDB on a small server. I repeated tests using the same charset (latin1) for all versions as explained here. In previous results I used…
CPU-bound sysbench on a large server: Postgres, MySQL and MariaDB
This post has results for CPU-bound sysbench vs Postgres, MySQL and MariaDB on a large server using older and newer releases. The goal is to measure:how performance changes over time from…