by Dave Rosenlund | Apr 29, 2014 | MySQL
If you did not read my first blog post about Mark Callaghan’s (@markcallaghan) benchmarks as documented in his blog, Small Datum, you may want to skim through it now for a little context. ——————- On March 11th, Mark, a former Google and now Facebook database guru,...
by Ovais Tariq | Apr 28, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
I have recently been involved in diagnosing the reasons behind OOM invocation that would kill the MySQL server process. Of course these servers were primarily running MySQL. As such the MySQL server process was the one with the largest amount of memory allocated. But...
by Fernando Ipar | Apr 25, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL
While built-in replication has been a major cause for MySQL’s wide adoption, official tools to help DBAs manage replication topologies have typically been missing from the picture. The community has produced many good products to fill in this gap, but recently,...
by Jervin Real | Apr 24, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Services, Percona Software
We’ve recently received a number of questions on how to implement incremental MySQL backups alongside encryption with Percona XtraBackup. Some users thought it was not initially possible because with the default --encrypt options with XtraBackup, all files will...
by Daniel Nichter | Apr 23, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Live
I started using MySQL 11 years ago. That’s not too long compared to other people in the industry, but nonetheless here’s my perspective on the state of the MySQL industry after attending Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2104. In short, the...
by Peter Zaitsev | Apr 21, 2014 | MySQL
Later this week I’m excited to depart on a trip to South America. First I will stop in Montevideo, Uruguay, to meet with Percona’s team out there as well as to participate in our next Percona University event on April 29. For those who do not know, Percona...
by Jon Tobin | Apr 21, 2014 | MySQL
Three weeks ago I had the privilege of attending my first Percona Live MySQL conference, which was incredible! In particular, there were two things that I found impressive about the conference. First, was the amount of knowledge sharing and support that MySQL users...
by Alexander Rubin | Apr 21, 2014 | MySQL
Apache Hadoop is commonly used for data analysis. It is fast for data loads and scalable. In a previous post I showed how to integrate MySQL with Hadoop. In this post I will show how to export a table from MySQL to Hadoop, load the data to Cloudera Impala (columnar...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Apr 18, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Software
I’d like to congratulate Canonical with the new Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) Release, it really looks like a great release, and I say it having my own agenda 🙂 It looks even more great because it comes with a full line of Percona Software. If you install...
by Dave Rosenlund | Apr 18, 2014 | MySQL
A little background… When I ventured into sales and marketing (I’m an engineer by education) I learned I would often have to interpret and simply summarize the business value that is sometimes hidden in benchmarks. Simply put, the people who approve the purchase...
by Dave Rosenlund | Apr 17, 2014 | MySQL
As you scale, one of the challenges is optimizing your clusters and mitigating operational risk. Proper preparation can result in significant savings and reduced downtime. Register Now! SPEAKER: Jon Tobin, Tokutek and Vinay Joosery, Severalnines DATE: Thursday, April...
by Roel Van de Paar | Apr 17, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL
Finding bugs in MySQL is not only fun, it’s also something I have been doing the last four years of my life. Whether you want to become the next Shane Bester (who is generally considered the most skilled MySQL bug hunter worldwide), or just want to prove you can...
by Dave Rosenlund | Apr 16, 2014 | MySQL
OpenStack Summit 2014 is a five-day conference for developers, users, and administrators of OpenStack Cloud Software — a topic near and dear to many Tokutek customers. This year’s event is being held in Atlanta, May 12-16, 2014. Recently, I learned about an...
by Matt Griffin | Apr 16, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live, Percona Software
To kick off the Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2014, Percona held the first “Open Source Appreciation Day” on Monday, March 31st. Over 210 people registered and the day’s two free events focused on CentOS and OpenStack. The OpenStack Today...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Apr 15, 2014 | MySQL
As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, TokuMX replication differs quite a bit from MongoDB’s replication. The differences are large enough such that we’ve completely redone some of MongoDB’s existing algorithms. One such area is how secondaries apply oplog data from a...
by Mike Benshoof | Apr 15, 2014 | MySQL
I recently helped a client implement a custom replication delay monitor and wanted to share the experience and discuss some of the iterations and decisions that were made. percona-millipede was developed in conjunction with Vimeo with the following high-level goal in...
by Peter Zaitsev | Apr 14, 2014 | MySQL
Over the last few days, the Percona team has spent a lot of time evaluating the impact of the Heartbleed bug (CVE-2014-0160) for our customers and for the users of our software. We published a formal disclosure a few days ago. However, I thought a quick summary and...
by Terry Erisman | Apr 10, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Events
The Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2014 was March 31st through April 4th in Santa Clara, California. I heard numerous positive comments from attendees and saw even more on social media. Our conference team lead by Kortney Runyan pulled together a smooth,...
by Joel.Epstein | Apr 10, 2014 | MySQL
During a typical release cycle for TokuDB at Tokutek, we spend time qualifying and hardening the product using numerous tools. For example, we run stress and unit tests directly on the Fractal Tree indexes, MySQL Test Runner (MTR) tests on the storage engine as well...
by Ernie Souhrada | Apr 9, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software, Security
If you’ve been following this blog (my colleague, David Busby, posted about it yesterday) or any tech news outlet in the past few days, you’ve probably seen some mention of the “Heartbleed” vulnerability in certain versions of the OpenSSL...
