Our server “Kopiec” is somewhat online (running CentOS off course) – we’re able to start/stop if thanks to a tool that’s called “remote insight”, and I’ve put 3 databases on there. MariaDB, InfiniDB and a clean MySQL instalation. We’re somewhat having problems with TokuDB, but that’s going to be our 4th database of interest. If you want to keep track of our test’s you can take a look at: http://mysqlintegra.project13.pl/.

The first step in getting things tested is filling those db’s with some data, and I mean a LOT of data. So we hacked up a more or less quick and dirty python script called dbfiller (source code avaiable on github) that would simulate a very simple table generation scheme (people working on shifts and checking in when they’re finished or start some activity). If you’re interested, our task is specyfied in the /doc/Opis.pdf file (sorry, only in polish). After a few days it’s up and running and we’re moving on to filling up those databases with some gigabytes of data.

Next we’re going to write some SQL Views/Procedures and then we’ll use Apache JMeter to run some performance benchmarks of some interesting data storage engines.

PS: If you’re wondering about my GWT-Crossword project – yeah, it’s still actual, and I’ll get right on it when done with some of the stuff here.
PPS: Yes, an Linux powered phone AT LAST in my hands! The HTC HERO is comming to me really soon – never again shall I use a ShitOS like WindowsMobile 6.5.

• TokuDB http://tokutek.com/
• InfiniDB http://www.infinidb.org
• percona http://www.percona.com/docs/wiki/Percona-XtraDB:start
• MariaDB http://askmonty.org/wiki/index.php/Maria (Maria, PBXT, FederatedX)
• IBMDB2I http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/se-db2.html
• …ane some more…?
  

A simple comprehension will be the first thing we’ll do for this project… Later on we’ll do some simulated “real life” tests using JMeter. It’s possible that we’ll write some app based on this database later on – but that’s somehow far off at the moment. That said, I’m really happy to be involved in an interesting and open (it’s all open source & free software after all) topic.

Tomorrow I’m going to the university to setup our very own (awesome ;-)) HP ProLiant DL380 server. It has 6 hard drives, thus it should be very interesting to run HEAVY database LOAD tests – can’t wait. We’ll install CentOS 5.4 and think about it’s future then…