Baron Schwartz
Baron Schwartz is a software engineer most notable for his contributions to the MySQL database. He is currently a performance consultant at Percona, Inc. and lives in Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Schwartz is a co-author of High Performance MySQL, 2nd ed. (published 2008, O'Reilly) [1]. He developed and maintains Innotop [2], an open source interactive monitoring tool for MySQL and InnoDB, and the Ma'atkit toolkit for MySQL [3], which includes tools for:
- query profiling
- duplicate key checking
- table checksum and sync
- parallel dump and restore
- replication heartbeat
- replication delay
- replication slave automatic restarting
- replication pre-fetching, to warm slave caches
- a tree-formatted query analyzer
- deadlock logging
- archiving data
- showing permissions for multiple database users
- an analog to the Unix "find" command, that can test and perform actions on database objects
Schwartz won MySQL's 2008 MySQL Code Contributor of the Year Award [4] for Ma'atkit. He has also released a set of templates to monitor MySQL under Cacti_(software).[5]