MariaDB innovation: binlog_storage_engine, 48-core server, Insert Benchmark

MariaDB 12.3 has a new feature enabled by the option binlog_storage_engine . When enabled it uses InnoDB instead of raw files to store the binlog. A big benefit from this is reducing the number of fsync calls per commit from 2 to 1 because it reduces the number of resource managers from 2 (binlog, InnoDB) to 1 (InnoDB). See this blog post for more details on the new feature. This work was done by…