Hi,
I think this week can truly be named: "The MySQL week". So many issues regarding this product. You know, sometimes it is the cost of getting things for free...
Well, first of all, MySQL is a great product. Many start ups started with this product and many giants are using it for their billions events per day systems.
However, MySQL has several limitations. One of them is that it not really supports multi core processors. Yes, I know, MySQL definitly tell that they do support multi threading. However, our analysis found out that this is not the case. As you can see in the attached graph, the MySQL machine really works hard. However, since it's a quad core machine, it is reaching only 25% CPU utilization
To be more accorate, too many people around the globe like Jeremy Kusnetz, peter with who Sun reach performance on 256 cores and starnixhacks got to the same conclusion: MySQL do use multi threading to it periphrial components, but when it get to do real work, it not really supports multi core processors.
This can be really defined as a major issue, since modern CPUs are based on slower clocks and more cores... So what can we do?
Well the answer is Sharding...
In few words, sharing is the internet companies way to install many weak type databases, each dealing with a vertical or horizental part of the database. This way you can install on a dual qual core CPUs machine, 8 MySQLs instances, each dealing with a single partition of your application (for example the first stores customer with name starts with 'A', while the second stores these that start with 'B', 'C' and 'D' and so on). A broader review of this method will be provided in the next weeks.
Anyhow, I recommend MySQL Optimization guide, as a must to any MySQL would be tuning professional
Moshe.
RockeTier, The Performance Experts
I think this week can truly be named: "The MySQL week". So many issues regarding this product. You know, sometimes it is the cost of getting things for free...
Well, first of all, MySQL is a great product. Many start ups started with this product and many giants are using it for their billions events per day systems.
However, MySQL has several limitations. One of them is that it not really supports multi core processors. Yes, I know, MySQL definitly tell that they do support multi threading. However, our analysis found out that this is not the case. As you can see in the attached graph, the MySQL machine really works hard. However, since it's a quad core machine, it is reaching only 25% CPU utilization
To be more accorate, too many people around the globe like Jeremy Kusnetz, peter with who Sun reach performance on 256 cores and starnixhacks got to the same conclusion: MySQL do use multi threading to it periphrial components, but when it get to do real work, it not really supports multi core processors.
This can be really defined as a major issue, since modern CPUs are based on slower clocks and more cores... So what can we do?
Well the answer is Sharding...
In few words, sharing is the internet companies way to install many weak type databases, each dealing with a vertical or horizental part of the database. This way you can install on a dual qual core CPUs machine, 8 MySQLs instances, each dealing with a single partition of your application (for example the first stores customer with name starts with 'A', while the second stores these that start with 'B', 'C' and 'D' and so on). A broader review of this method will be provided in the next weeks.
Anyhow, I recommend MySQL Optimization guide, as a must to any MySQL would be tuning professional
Moshe.
RockeTier, The Performance Experts
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