Ask HN: Anyone used XtraDB from Percona (instead of InnoDB)? 17 years ago
I recently deployed XtraDB 1.0.4-8 with MySQL 5.1.39 -- I've seen speedups of upto 50% on some queries -- especially on 1M+ row updates.
Setup is easy. Here's what I did 1. download mysql 5.1.39 source tarball 2. download percona xtradb 1.0.4-8 3. extract mysql 5.1.39 tarball 4. delete contents of 'mysql-5.1.39/storage/innobase' 5. extract contents of xtradb tarball into 'mysql-5.1.39/storage/innobase' 6. compile mysql source with standard configure options