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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

In 1991 I wrote a white paper on performance that was widely read, and in 1993 (with help from Brian Wong) that got me a job in the USA, working alongside Brian for Mike Briggs in technical product marketing. I also applied Six Sigma to capacity planning and presented this at a conference in 2003.

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HammerDB MySQL and MariaDB Best Practice for Performance and Scalability

HammerDB

InnoDB is the storage engine that will deliver the best OLTP throughput and should be chosen for this test. . For anyone benchmarking MySQL with HammerDB it is important to understand the differences from sysbench workloads as HammerDB is targeted at a testing a different usage model from sysbench. H ammerDB CLI v3.1.