MySQL 5.7.3: Deep dive into 1mil QPS with InnoDB Memcached
As you probably already know, in MySQL 5.7.3 release, InnoDB Memcached reached a record of over 1 million QPS on read only workload. The overview of the benchmark and testing results can be seen in an...
View ArticleInnoDB Spatial Indexes in 5.7.4 LAB release
With MySQL 5.7.4 LAB release, InnoDB now supports “Spatial Index” on geometry data. Before this new feature, InnoDB stores geometry data as BLOB data, and only prefix index can be created on the...
View ArticleNew InnoDB Memcached Functionality in 5.7 Lab Release
InnoDB Memcached’s read only query performance in 5.7 has already achieved a remarkable 1.1 million QPS record. Now, the read only query bottleneck shifts to the memcached client itself. Thus anything...
View ArticleJSON Labs Release: Effective Functional Indexes in InnoDB
In MySQL 5.7.6, we added a new feature called Generated Columns. In the initial work all Generated Columns were materialized, even virtual ones. This not only resulted in unnecessary disk space being...
View ArticleVirtual Columns and Effective Functional Indexes in InnoDB
In April, I wrote a blog post introducing the new InnoDB virtual column and effective functional index work for the JSON lab release. Now the feature is officially in MySQL 5.7.8. It’s worth revisiting...
View ArticleMySQL 8.0 Labs: The “Unified Data Dictionary” Lab Release
The recent “Unified Data Dictionary Lab Release” quietly delivered an important change to the MySQL server with InnoDB engine: the “InnoDB System Tables” are now officially “decommissioned”. And InnoDB...
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