This is a Perl script that can be used to estimate the amount of space that would be required by a MySQL database if it were converted to use the NDBCLUSTER storage engine. Unlike the other utilities discussed in this section, it does not require access to a MySQL Cluster (in fact, there is no reason for it to do so). However, it does need to access the MySQL server on which the database to be tested resides.

Requirements:

ndb_size.pl can also be found in the MySQL sources in storage/ndb/tools. If this file is not present in your MySQL installation, you can obtain it from the MySQL Forge project page.

The following table includes options that are specific to the MySQL Cluster program ndb_size.pl. Additional descriptions follow the table. For options common to all MySQL Cluster programs, see Section 4.23, “Options Common to MySQL Cluster Programs”.

Usage:

perl ndb_size.pl db_name|ALL] [--hostname=host[:port]] [--socket=socket] [--user=user] \
    [--password=password] [--help|-h] [--format=(html|text)] [--loadqueries=file_name] [--savequeries=file_name]

By default, this utility attempts to analyze all databases on the server. You can specify a single database using the --database option; the default behavior can be made explicit by using ALL for the name of the database. You can also exclude one or more databases by using the --excludedbs with a comma-separated list of the names of the databases to be skipped. Similarly, you can cause specific tables to be skipped by listing their names, separated by commas, following the optional --excludetables option. A host name (and possibly a port as well) can be specified using --hostname; the default is localhost:3306. If necessary, you can specify a socket; the default is /var/lib/mysql.sock. A MySQL user name and password can be specified the corresponding options shown. It also possible to control the format of the output using the --format option; this can take either of the values html or text, with text being the default. An example of the text output is shown here:

shell> ndb_size.pl --database=test --socket=/tmp/mysql.sock
ndb_size.pl report for database: 'test' (1 tables)
--------------------------------------------------
Connected to: DBI:mysql:host=localhost;mysql_socket=/tmp/mysql.sock
Including information for versions: 4.1, 5.0, 5.1
test.t1
-------
DataMemory for Columns (* means varsized DataMemory):
              Column Name                 Type  Varsized   Key       4.1        5.0        5.1
          HIDDEN_NDB_PKEY               bigint             PRI         8          8          8
                       c2          varchar(50)         Y              52         52         4*
                       c1              int(11)                         4          4          4
                                                                      --         --         --
Fixed Size Columns DM/Row                                             64         64         12
   Varsize Columns DM/Row                                              0          0          4
DataMemory for Indexes:
               Index Name                 Type        4.1        5.0        5.1
                  PRIMARY                BTREE         16         16         16
                                                       --         --         --
       Total Index DM/Row                              16         16         16
IndexMemory for Indexes:
               Index Name        4.1        5.0        5.1
                  PRIMARY         33         16         16
                                  --         --         --
           Indexes IM/Row         33         16         16
Summary (for THIS table):
                                 4.1        5.0        5.1
    Fixed Overhead DM/Row         12         12         16
           NULL Bytes/Row          4          4          4
           DataMemory/Row         96         96         48  (Includes overhead, bitmap and indexes)
  Varsize Overhead DM/Row          0          0          8
   Varsize NULL Bytes/Row          0          0          4
       Avg Varside DM/Row          0          0         16
                 No. Rows          0          0          0
        Rows/32kb DM Page        340        340        680
Fixedsize DataMemory (KB)          0          0          0
Rows/32kb Varsize DM Page          0          0       2040
  Varsize DataMemory (KB)          0          0          0
         Rows/8kb IM Page        248        512        512
         IndexMemory (KB)          0          0          0
Parameter Minimum Requirements
------------------------------
* indicates greater than default
                Parameter          Default             4.1              5.0              5.1
          DataMemory (KB)            81920               0                0                0
       NoOfOrderedIndexes              128               1                1                1
               NoOfTables              128               1                1                1
         IndexMemory (KB)            18432               0                0                0
    NoOfUniqueHashIndexes               64               0                0                0
           NoOfAttributes             1000               3                3                3
             NoOfTriggers              768               5                5                5

For debugging purposes, the Perl arrays containing the queries run by this script can be read from the file specified using can be saved to a file using --savequeries; a file containing such arrays to be read in during script execution can be specified using --loadqueries. Neither of these options has a default value.

To produce output in HTML format, use the --format option and redirect the output to a file, as shown in this example:

shell> ndb_size.pl --database=test --socket=/tmp/mysql.sock --format=html > ndb_size.html

(Without the redirection, the output is sent to stdout.) This figure shows a portion of the generated ndb_size.html output file, as viewed in a Web browser:

The output from this script includes:

perl ndb_size.pl db_name hostname username password > file_name.html