by Rich.Prohaska | Feb 5, 2015 | MySQL
In the recently released TokuDB 7.5.5 the implementation of TokuDB hot-backup moved from a patch to the MySQL Server, to MySQL Plugin. Why did we make this change? TokuDB hot backup makes a transactionally consistent copy of the TokuDB files while applications...
by Dave Rosenlund | Feb 4, 2015 | MySQL
On February 3rd MongoDB, Inc. formally announced MongoDB v3.0 (the product release formerly known as v2.8). It includes a number of important enhancements, some of them of particular interest to users of the Tokutek distribution of MongoDB, TokuMX, or anyone thinking...
by Roel Van de Paar | Feb 4, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL
Being a QA Engineer, how would you feel if you had access to a framework which can generate 80+ crashes – a mix of hitting developer introduced assertions (situations that should not happen), and serious unforeseen binary crashes – for the world’s...
by Kortney Runyan | Feb 3, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Live
It’s hard to believe that the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo is just over two months away (April 13-16 in Santa Clara, California). So if you’ve been thinking about submitting a proposal for the popular “Lightning Talks” and/or...
by Daniel Nichter | Feb 2, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Software
I’m happy to announce Go packages for MySQL. Particularly exciting is a new query fingerprint function which is very fast and efficient, but I’ll talk about that later. First, go-mysql is currently three simple Go packages for parsing and aggregating MySQL...
by Kortney Runyan | Jan 30, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Live
This April 13-14 Percona is introducing an annual conference called OpenStack Live. I’ve seen a few questions about the new event so decided to help clarify what this show is about and who should attend. Unlike OpenStack Summits, held twice a year and dedicated to...
by Rich.Prohaska | Jan 29, 2015 | MySQL
Tokutek is pleased to announce the general availability of TokuDB 7.5.5. The notable changes since TokuDB 7.5.3 are: Rebased onto MySQL 5.5.41 and MariaDB 5.5.41 to integrate the latest changes Improved TokuDB lock timeout logging Added several optimize table options...
by David Busby | Jan 29, 2015 | MySQL, Security
Cloud security company Qualys announced Tuesday the issues prevalent in glibc since version 2.2 introduced in 2000-11-10 (the complete Qualys announcement may be viewed here). The vulnerability, CVE-2015-0235, has been dubbed “GHOST.” As the announcement...
by Stephane Combaudon | Jan 29, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
MySQL 5.6 allows you to execute replicated events in parallel as long as data is split across several databases. This feature is named “Multi-Threaded Slave” (MTS) and it is easy to enable by setting slave_parallel_workers to a > 1 value. However if you...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jan 27, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MariaDB, MySQL
About two years ago we held our first-ever Percona University event in Raleigh, N.C. It was a great success with high attendance and very positive feedback which led us to organize a number of similar educational events in different locations around the world. And...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Jan 26, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is pleased to announce the availability of Percona Toolkit 2.2.13. Released January 26, 2015. Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced command-line tools to perform a variety of MySQL server and system tasks that are too difficult or complex for DBAs to...
by Peter Boros | Jan 26, 2015 | Benchmarks, MySQL
In this blog post, we will discuss MySQL performance on eXFlash DIMMs. Earlier we measured the IO performance of these storage devices with sysbench fileio. Environment The benchmarking environment was the same as the one we did sysbench fileio in. CPU: 2x Intel Xeon...
by Michael Coburn | Jan 23, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Software
For months when speaking with customers I have been positioning Percona Cloud Tools (PCT) as a valuable tool for the DBA/Developer/SysAdmin but only recently have I truly been able to harness the data and make a technical recommendation to a customer that I feel would...
by Jon Tobin | Jan 22, 2015 | MySQL
Welcome to blog #2 in a series about the benefits of the Fractal Tree. In this post, I’ll be explaining Big Data, why it poses such a problem and how Tokutek can help. Given the fact that I am a lifelong fan of both Hip-hop and Big Data, the title was a no-brainer...
by Dave Rosenlund | Jan 22, 2015 | MySQL
Receive 20 FREE hours of MongoDB® consulting services if TokuMX does not improve your MongoDB application performance by at least 2x and/or reduce the size of your MongoDB database by 50% or more. Like A Finely Tuned Rally Car Like a finely tuned rally car, your big...
by David Ducos | Jan 21, 2015 | Benchmarks, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
Mydumper is known as the faster (much faster) mysqldump alternative. So, if you take a logical backup you will choose Mydumper instead of mysqldump. But what about the restore? Well, who needs to restore a logical backup? It takes ages! Even with Myloader. But this...
by Alok Pathak | Jan 20, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
As a MySQL DBA/consultant, it is part of my job to decode the MySQL binary logs – and there are a number of reasons for doing that. In this post, I’ll explain how you can get the important information about your write workload using MySQL row-based binary...
by Leif.Walsh | Jan 19, 2015 | MySQL
UPDATE: Since the publication of this blog post, Tokutek subsequently published preliminary performance benchmark results for TokuMXse. In addition, we have recently released the fourth release candidate of TokuMXse for testing. Also, since this post was written,...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jan 19, 2015 | Benchmarks, MySQL, Percona Software
A few days ago I wrote about MySQL performance implications of InnoDB isolation modes and I touched briefly upon the bizarre performance regression I found with InnoDB handling a large amount of versions for a single row. Today I wanted to look a bit deeper into the...
by Liz van Dijk | Jan 16, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events
As you may already be aware, FOSDEM and its wonderful MySQL and Friends track are once again descending upon the campus of the ULB in Brussels, Belgium. Logically, a traditional MySQL and Friends Community Dinner must follow! Signups for that dinner, on January 31,...
