Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.7.25-28 on February 18, 2019. Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories.
This release is based on MySQL 5.7.25 and includes all the bug fixes in it. Percona Server 5.7.25-28 is now the current GA (Generally Available) release in the 5.7 series.
All software developed by Percona is open-source and free.
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Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MongoDB 4.0.5-2 on February 18, 2019. Download the latest version from the Percona website or the Percona Software Repositories.
Percona Server for MongoDB is an enhanced, open source, and highly-scalable database that is a fully-compatible, drop-in replacement for MongoDB 4.0 Community Edition. It supports MongoDB 4.0 protocols and drivers.
Percona Server for MongoDB extends Community Edition […]
Ahead of the PCI move to deprecate the use of ‘early TLS’, we’ve previously taken steps to disable TLSv1.0.
Unfortunately at that time we encountered some issues which led us to rollback these changes. This was to allow users of operating systems that did not – yet – support TLSv1.1 or higher to download Percona packages over […]
While implementing ClickHouse for query executions statistics storage in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), we were faced with a question of choosing the data type for metrics we store. It came down to this question: what is the difference in performance and space usage between Uint32, Uint64, Float32, and Float64 column types?
To test this, […]
For those not familiar with it, FOSDEM is an amazing, free entry, full on celebration of open source that takes place in Brussels, Belgium every year. This year the event was held over the first weekend of February. Fringe events, such as the Pre-FOSDEM MySQL day hosted by Oracle MySQL, and the community dinner that […]
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PostgreSQL is emerging as the standard destination for database migrations from proprietary databases. As a consequence, there is an increase in demand for database side code migration and associated performance troubleshooting. One might be able to trace the latency to a plsql function, but explaining what happens within a function could be a difficult […]
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Recently, I had to work on an emergency for a customer who was having a problem restarting a MariaDB Galera Cluster. After a failure in the cluster they decided to restart the cluster entirely following the right path: bootstrapping the first node, and then adding the rest of the members, one by one. Everything […]
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In one of my previous posts, I started a series on data compression options with MySQL. The first post focused on the more traditional compression options like InnoDB Barracuda page compression and MyISAM packing. With this second part, I’ll discuss a newer compression option, InnoDB transparent page compression with punch holes available since 5.7. […]
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ProxySQL 1.4.14, released by ProxySQL, is now available for download in the Percona Repository along with an updated version of Percona’s proxysql-admin tool.
ProxySQL is a high-performance proxy, currently for MySQL, and database servers in the MySQL ecosystem (like Percona Server for MySQL and MariaDB). It acts as an intermediary for client requests seeking resources from the […]
In my webinar How To Rock with MyRocks I briefly mentioned the column families feature in MyRocks, that allows a fine tuning for indexes and primary keys.
Let’s review it in more detail.
To recap, MyRocks is based on the RocksDB library, which stores all data in [key => value] pairs, so when it translates to […]
