by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Oct 22, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.3.2 GA on October 22nd, 2015. Downloads are available from our download site or Percona Software Repositories. Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Oct 22, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.2.13 on October 22nd, 2015. Downloads are available from our download site or Percona Software Repositories. Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for...
by Stephane Combaudon | Oct 21, 2015 | MongoDB
After we announced that Percona offers support for RocksDB, we saw many people looking for more details about this storage engine. Here is a quick list of some of the most frequent questions we get. Q: What is RocksDB? A: Quoting the homepage of the project: RocksDB...
by Daniel Guzmán Burgos | Oct 20, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
I love graphs. They just make things easier when it comes to finding patterns. I also love visibility. Having the ability to known what is going on inside the database is priceless. How about having visibility of the slow queries execution time on a graph? Let’s...
by Kortney Runyan | Oct 20, 2015 | Cloud, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events
The Call for Papers for the fifth annual Percona Live Data Performance Conference and Expo (formerly MySQL Conference and Expo) taking place April 18-21, 2016, in Santa Clara, California, is now officially open! Ask yourself… “Do I have…” Fresh...
by Matt Yonkovit | Oct 19, 2015 | MongoDB
We are excited this week to welcome David Murphy to Percona as our Practice Manager for MongoDB®. A veteran of ObjectRocket, Electronic Arts, and Rackspace, David is a welcome addition to our team and will provide vision, direction and best practices for all things...
by Jim Doherty | Oct 18, 2015 | Percona Events
This year’s Percona Live for Europe proved to be a turning point for the conference. First and most obvious was the change of venue. After several years in London we decided to move the show to Amsterdam and we were quite pleased. The weather was not much different...
by Kortney Runyan | Oct 16, 2015 | Percona Events
The MySQL 101 track was introduced at the 2015 Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, California. This track was tailored specifically for software developers and other specialists with technical backgrounds wanting to acquire the basic skills needed...
by Peter Zaitsev | Oct 16, 2015 | Percona Events
But mostly thank you to our customers who said more about Percona than we ever could have. There are many milestones in the life of the company, and being included in the Gartner Magic Quadrant is one of very significant ones! I’m very proud we have now reached that...
by Frederic Descamps | Oct 15, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Software
On September 21st, we released Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.25. This is the first PXC release supporting proxy-protocol that has been included in Percona Server since 5.6.25-73.0. With this blog post, I want to promote a new feature that you may have ignored....
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Oct 15, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the new release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 on October 15th 2015. Binaries are available from downloads area or from our software repositories. Based on Percona Server 5.6.26-74.0 including all the bug fixes in it, Galera Replicator 3.12,...
by Daniel Guzmán Burgos | Oct 13, 2015 | Insight for DBAs
Query analysis is a fantastic path in the pursuit to achieve high performance. It’s also probably the most repeated part of a DBA’s daily adventure. For most of us, the weapon of choice is definitely pt-query-digest, which is one of the best tools for slow...
by Stephane Combaudon | Oct 9, 2015 | MySQL
I presented a talk at Percona Live Amsterdam a few weeks ago (simple recipes for your Galera cluster), and one of the topics was schema changes. I discussed the drawbacks and benefits of Total Order Isolation (TOI), Rolling Schema Upgrades (RSU) and...
by Robert Barabas | Oct 9, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
The other day a colleague and friend of mine, Peter Boros, had a case where one of our clients had to track down the process shutting down MySQL. This blog is based on the discussion we had about that internally. Our client wanted Peter to identify the culprit behind...
by Alexander Rubin | Oct 7, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
What is Apache Spark? Apache Spark is a cluster computing framework, similar to Apache Hadoop. Wikipedia has a great description of it: Apache Spark is an open source cluster computing framework originally developed in the AMPLab at University of California, Berkeley...
by Daniel Guzmán Burgos | Oct 1, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
Capturing data is a critical part of performing a query analysis, or even just to have an idea of what’s going on inside the database. There are several known ways to achieve this. For example: Enable the General Log Use the Slow Log with long_query_time = 0...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Sep 21, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the new release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 on September 21st 2015. Binaries are available from downloads area or from our software repositories. Based on Percona Server 5.6.25-73.1 including all the bug fixes in it, Galera Replicator...
by Andrew Moore | Sep 21, 2015 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Services
Even with software like Percona Xtrabackup, logical backups remain an important component of a thorough backup strategy. To gather a logical backup in a timely fashion we rely on a tool called mydumper. In the Percona Managed Services department we’re lucky...
by Alexey Zhebel | Sep 21, 2015 | MongoDB, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is pleased to announce the release of Percona Server for MongoDB 3.0.5-rc7 on September 21, 2015. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories. Percona Server for MongoDB is an enhanced, open source, fully...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Sep 18, 2015 | MySQL
Intro The purpose of this project was to measure the potential overhead of VividCortex Agent, which is used by VividCortex.com database monitoring system. This benchmark is part of a consulting engagement with VividCortex and paid by the customer. The assumption is...
