by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Feb 25, 2014 | Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Toolkit 2.2.7 on February 24th, 2014 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). This release is the current GA (Generally Available) stable release in the 2.2 series. This release fixes...
by Przemysław Malkowski | Feb 24, 2014 | Benchmarks, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In my previous post I pointed out that the existing ARCHIVE storage engine in MySQL may not be the one that will satisfy your needs when it comes to effectively storing large and/or old data. But are there any good alternatives? As the primary purpose of this engine...
by Leif.Walsh | Feb 21, 2014 | MySQL
We just released version 1.4.0 of TokuMX, our high-performance distribution of MongoDB. There are a lot of improvements in this version (release notes), the most of any release yet. In this series of blog posts, we describe the most interesting changes and how they’ll...
by Raghavendra | Feb 21, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Software
I spoke last month at linux.conf.au 2014 in Perth, Australia, and one of my sessions focused on the “Continuous Integration (CI) testing of Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC)” at the Developer,Testing, Release and CI miniconf. Here is the video of the...
by Leif.Walsh | Feb 20, 2014 | MySQL
We just released version 1.4.0 of TokuMX, our high-performance distribution of MongoDB. There are a lot of improvements in this version (release notes), the most of any release yet. In this series of blog posts, we describe the most interesting changes and how they’ll...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Feb 20, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the new release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 on February 20th 2014. Binaries are available from downloads area or from our software repositories. Based on Percona Server 5.6.15-63.0 including all the bug fixes in it, Galera Replicator 3.3...
by Leif.Walsh | Feb 19, 2014 | MySQL
We just released version 1.4.0 of TokuMX, our high-performance distribution of MongoDB. There are a lot of improvements in this version (release notes), the most of any release yet. In this series of blog posts, we describe the most interesting changes and how they’ll...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Feb 19, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Software
The Percona Cloud Tools beta service continues to grow its query analysis capabilities with new features for reviewing queries. These enhancements will: Provide better visibility into the query performance of your next code deployment Introduce query organization...
by Leif.Walsh | Feb 18, 2014 | MySQL
We just released version 1.4.0 of TokuMX, our high-performance distribution of MongoDB. There are a lot of improvements in this version (release notes), the most of any release yet. In this series of blog posts, we describe the most interesting changes and how they’ll...
by Tom Diederich | Feb 18, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Live
Today’s post features an interview with Morgan Tocker, MySQL community manager at Oracle. Morgan is an old friend of Percona, having worked here as director of MySQL training from 2009 to 2011. He’s also done stints at MySQL, Sun Microsystems and...
by Leif.Walsh | Feb 17, 2014 | MySQL
In this post, I’d like to discuss some performance problems recently mentioned about MongoDB’s embedded arrays, and how TokuMX avoids these problems and delivers more consistent performance for MongoDB applications. In “Why shouldn’t I embed...
by Miguel Angel Nieto | Feb 17, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Software
We recently announced Percona ClusterControl supplied in partnership with Severalnines. This enterprise-grade cluster management and monitoring software is available with a Percona Support contract covering Percona XtraDB Cluster, MySQL Cluster, or MySQL Galera. In...
by Tim.Callaghan | Feb 16, 2014 | MySQL
I have always believed that TokuMX’s Fractal Tree indexes are an ideal fit for MongoDB’s sharding model, especially when it comes time for balancing to occur. At a very high level, balancing is needed when one shard contains more chunks than another. The...
by Leif.Walsh | Feb 14, 2014 | MySQL
We just released version 1.4.0 of TokuMX, our high-performance distribution of MongoDB. There are a lot of improvements in this version (release notes), the most of any release yet. In this series of blog posts, we describe the most interesting changes and how they’ll...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Feb 14, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Software
One of the more popular support requests we get involves setting up the official Percona rsync repositories that can be used to set up local mirrors. I’m glad to announce that this was implemented recently. You can now access the rsync repository at:...
by Peter Boros | Feb 14, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software, Webinars
Next Wednesday, Severalnines CTO Johan Andersson and I will co-present a webinar about ClusterControl, a cluster management tool created by Severalnines that can monitor Percona XtraDB Cluster. It provides DBAs with the right metrics to manage and optimize...
by Frederic Descamps | Feb 14, 2014 | MySQL
Before Percona XtraBackup 2.1.7 and Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.15-25.3, rsync was the only SST method supporting GTID in the way that it was possible to move an asynchronous slave from one Galera node to another one (related bug). Indeed, previous versions of Percona...
by Leif.Walsh | Feb 13, 2014 | MySQL
Today we are thrilled to announce the availability of the latest release (1.4.0) of TokuMX, our high-performance distribution of MongoDB. For those of you just joining us, TokuMX is an open-source distribution of MongoDB that shares much of the code, and all of the...
by Dave Rosenlund | Feb 13, 2014 | MySQL
As your database begins to scale, sharding can be an effective way to manage your data. In MongoDB, sharding is unique because it retains nearly all of the the full expressiveness of a single server database while scaling out. Register Now! SPEAKER: Leif Walsh,...
by Terry Erisman | Feb 13, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
The Percona Live MySQL Conference 2014 in Santa Clara, California is just around the corner: April 1-4. There is a tremendous amount of activity leading up to the conference, some of which I will highlight here. Percona Live MySQL Conference 2014 Keynote Speakers I am...
