MySQL benchmarks and configurations
We have gone through various new features and improvements MySQL 8 is coming up with. It makes us more excited as performance is always what we crave for. MySQL 8 not being generally available yet, Oracle hasn't published its benchmark results. We didn't wait for it and did analysis on our own in a few areas.
Configuration best practices of MySQL is the cherry on the cake; without the cherry, the cake seems incomplete. In addition to configurations, benchmarking helps us validate and find bottlenecks and address them. Let's look at a few specific areas that would help us understand best practices for configuration and performance benchmarking.
Resource utilization
IO activity, CPU, and memory usage is something that you should not miss out. These metrics help us know how the system is performing while doing benchmarking and at the time of scaling. It also helps us derive impact per transaction.
Stretch your timelines of benchmarks
We often would like to have...