Architecture types and performances
MariaDB is able to run on multiple kinds of operating systems:
- Microsoft Windows x86 and x64
- Oracle Solaris 10 and 11 x64
- Linux x86 and x64
Tip
MariaDB has a special thread-pool implementation that allows it to perform much better than MySQL under heavy loads (lots of connections).
In this book, every exercise will be on Debian GNU/Linux Wheezy amd64 version. Of course, all MariaDB tuning will be portable to any operating system, so you won't be lost. For the operating system performance tuning, we'll focus on Linux amd64 (Debian GNU/Linux), as it's free and open source, and of course MariaDB works very well on it.
To easily test the following parameters, you can use the following Vagrant file that provides you with ...
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