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Comparing Optimizer Results

A while ago I read a paper about Optimizer Benchmarks: How Good Are Query Optimizers, Really? by Viktor Leis from Fakultät für Informatik of the Technische Universität München.

Databases are standardized but in detail they behave different

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For a fancy application we want to query a chunk of rows from a table and therefore we need the minimum and the maximum of the Primary Key of these rows.

Do not underestimate performance impacts of swapping on NUMA database systems

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If your MariaDB or MySQL database system is swapping it can have a significant impact on your database query performance! Further it can also slow down your database shutdown and thus influence the whole reboot of your machine. This is especially painful if you have only short maintenance windows or if you do not want to spend the whole night with operation tasks.

MariaDB and MySQL swap analysis

# free
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:       16106332     3914228      367072      296508    11825032    11441608
Swap:      31250428      182924    31067504

# cat /proc/meminfo | grep ^Swap
SwapCached:        10056 kB
SwapTotal:      31250428 kB
SwapFree:       31067504 kB

# for file in /proc/*/status ; do
  awk '/VmSwap|Name/{
    if ( $2 != "0" )
      printf $2 " " $3
  }END{ print ""}' $file
done | grep kB | sort -k 2 -n -r

mysqld 29988 kB
plasmashell 19096 kB
kwin_x11 13444 kB
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Migration from other databases to MySQL or MariaDB

Database migration tools

A generic database migration tool to MySQL and MariaDB is the MySQL Workbench.

An alternative is the old MySQL Migration Tool Kit.

Recommended by MariaDB Foundation: Sqlines.

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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...

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