Tag: Benchmarking
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Building a Public Performance Change Detection Library for MariaDB
Performance engineering inside a database project is usually private. Teams run internal workloads, investigate changes, fix issues, and move on. The knowledge stays inside the company, and the outside world only sees a benchmark graph or a release note.
I know this pattern well — I spent more than twenty‑six years doing this work for both PervasiveSQL and MySQL.
The investigations were deep, the lessons were real, but almost none of it was visible to the outside world.
The surprises, […]
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MariaDB Foundation Adds PostgreSQL to Its Engine‑Agnostic Testing Framework (TAF).
The Test Automation Framework (TAF) was designed so that database makers themselves could create a plugin and integrate their database engine directly into the framework.
TAF provides the structure — lifecycle management, workload execution, profiling, reporting, and reproducible properties files — and each database plugin supplies the engine‑specific logic.
The first two plugins added to TAF were MariaDB and MySQL, proving the model: database vendors can plug their engine into TAF and immediately gain automated installs, structured workloads, concurrency sweeps, […]
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Simple tool to build MariaDB commits for performance-change analysis
Tracking down changes in database performance is one of the hardest parts of engineering, especially when the change is buried somewhere in a long commit history.
To make this work easier and more repeatable, I put together a small but important tool:
MariaDBCommitBuilder.sh
This script does one thing well:
Given a commit hash, it checks out that commit, builds it cleanly, and packages it in a deterministic way so the Test Automation Framework (TAF) can run consistent performance tests.
Why […]