The Percona XtraDB Storage Engine
Percona XtraDB is an enhanced version of the InnoDB storage engine, designed to better scale on modern hardware, and including a variety of other features useful in high performance environments. It is fully backwards compatible, and so can be used as a drop-in replacement for standard InnoDB.
Percona XtraDB includes all of InnoDB's robust, reliable ACID-compliant design and advanced MVCC architecture, and builds on that solid foundation with more features, more tunability, more metrics, and more scalability. In particular, it is designed to scale better on many cores, to use memory more efficiently, and to be more convenient and useful. The new features are especially designed to alleviate some of InnoDB's limitations. We choose features and fixes based on customer requests and on our best judgment of real-world needs as a high-performance consulting company.
We are open for features requests for new engine and ready to accept community patches. You can monitor Percona’s current tasks and further plans on the Percona XtraDB Launchpad project. You can also request features and report bugs there. Also we have setup two maillists for General discussions and for Development related questions.
Percona XtraDB engine will not have further binary releases. XtraDB engine is distributed as part of Percona Server and MariaDB
Current stable release is Percona-Server-5.1.45-10:
Please report bugs to https://bugs.launchpad.net/percona-project/+filebug and ask general questions in maillist Percona-discussions
Discussion
I recenlty swith to XtraDB from Myqsl 5.5.1 after i learned about it in the review found by http://www.mp3hunting.com SE, i have high Read and Write InnoDB load. I want to know what is the best configuration for 10GB DDR3, InnoDB Size DB ~5G, with XtraDB. Thank you very much, and Great work Percona.