things you’ve heard about scale
write 1 / read manypartitioning / shardingmultimaster / ringsmemcached / nosql
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①large datasets②high volume reads③high volume writes
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storage choices
engine optionsstorage enginefilesystemvolume managerhardware
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①large datasets
large objectsmany rows
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storage flexibility, reliability, clone-ability
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②high volume reads
more memoryfast disksmore memory
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myisam vs innodb
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not to be obvious, but -- read less data!
compress data (if you can)
don’t use limit
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use thoughtful primary keys
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ashortdiversion
to swap ornot to swap that is the question
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③high volume writes
choose your filesystem wellunderstand how your filesystem and raid controller work togethertune them to work in concert
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facebook game case:
highly concurrent writeslow risk of --omg, i lost my most recent score!
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shard datainnodb_log_flush_at_trx_commit=0benchmark i/o schedulers
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free tools
innotopmaatkitMySQL proxymonitoring/trending
cacti templates$monitoring_server – the one you know
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additional resources
• irc.freenode.org– #mysql– #maatkit
• mysql.com• HPM2e -Baron Schwartz,
Peter Zaitsev, Vadim Tkachenko, and Jeremy Zawodny
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credits• swap image
– http://www.vocw.edu.vn/content/m10106/latest/
• special thanks to gabriel cain and mike hamrick for suggestions on content and slides
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Blue Gecko and contact info
• [email protected]• [email protected]• @sarahnovotny• @bluegecko• senk on #mysql
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