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Comparing MySQL to Vertica Replication under MemCloud, AWS and Bare Metal
Back in December, I did a detailed analysis for getting data into Vertica from MySQL using Tungsten Replicator, all within the Kodiak MemCloud. I got some good numbers towards the end – 1.9 million rows/minute into Vertica. I did this using a standard replicator deployment, plus some tweaks to the Vertica environment. In particular: Integer…
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MariaDB to Hadoop in Spanish
Nicolas Tobias has written an awesome guide to setting up replication from MariaDB to Hadoop/HDFS using Tungsten Replicator, in Spanish! He’s planning more of these so if you like what you see, please let him know! Semana santa y yo con nuevas batallas que contar. Me hayaba yo en el trabajo, pensando en que iba…
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Quilting for Equality
I’m sewing some quilts for charity this year for the Fawcett Society, who champion equal rights in the name of the Suffragette movement. This year (2018) is 100 years since the Vote for Women movement. The first quilt is finished and will be going up for auction soon! You can follow the progress on the…
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End of an Era: Neither MC nor Continuent Attending Percona Live
Continuent have been a long term sponsor of the Percona Live conference, and the MySQL conference as it was before that, for many years. We have attended the conference both as a Diamond sponsor, and members of our staff attending and presenting our products and experience at the conference. The nature of these conferences always changes over time,…
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Webinar Wednesday: Moving data in real-time into Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch provides a quick and easy method to aggregate data, whether you want to use it for simplifying your search across multiple depots and databases, or as part of your analytics stack. Getting the data from your transactional engines into Elasticsearch is something that can be achieved within your application layer with all of the…
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Analytical Replication Performance from MySQL to Vertica on MemCloud
I’ve recently been trying to improve the performance of the Vertica replicator, particularly in the form of the of the new single schema replication. We’ve done a lot in the new Tungsten Replicator 5.3.0 release to improve (and ultimately support) the new single schema model. As part of that, I’ve also been personally looking to…
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MacOS High Sierra Disk Space
Having updating to macOS High Sierra I’ve mostly been impressed, except about one thing, disk space usage. The new APFS creates snapshots during local Time Machine backups, and this can mean, especially if you’be been dealing with some large files, that when you delete them and empty the wastebasket, you don’t get your disk space.…
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Keynote and Session at Percona Live Dublin 2017
On Sunday I will travel over to Dublin for Percona Live 2017. I have two sessions, a keynote on the Wednesday morning where I’ll be talking about all the fun new stuff we have planned at Continuent and some new directions we’re working on. I also have a more detailed session on our new appliers for…