by Vadim Tkachenko | Aug 9, 2016 | Benchmarks, MySQL
In this blog post, I’ll discuss changes I’ve made to the tpcc-mysql benchmark tool. These changes make it less random and support multi-schema. This post might only be interesting to performance researchers. The tpcc-mysql benchmark to is what I use to...
by Dave Avery | Aug 9, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Events, Webinars
Join Sveta Smirnova Thursday, August 11 at 10 am PDT (UTC-7) for a webinar on InnoDB Troubleshooting. InnoDB is one of the most popular database engines. This general-purpose storage engine is widely used, has been MySQL’s default engine since version 5.6, and...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Aug 8, 2016 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In this post, I will point you to Docker images for MySQL Group Replication testing. There is a new release of MySQL Group Replication plugin for MySQL 5.7.14. It’s a “beta” plugin and it is probably the last (or at lease one of the final pre-release...
by Yves Trudeau | Aug 4, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Software
by Vadim Tkachenko | Aug 3, 2016 | Cloud, MySQL
In this post, I’ll review Docker multi-host network performance. In a past post, I tested Docker network. The MySQL Server team provided their own results, which are in line with my observations. For this set of tests, I wanted to focus more on Docker networking...
by Dave Avery | Aug 2, 2016 | MySQL, Security
Take Percona’s database security downtime poll. As Peter Zaitsev mentioned recently in his blog post on database support, the data breach costs can hit both your business reputation and your bottom line. Costs vary depending on the company size and market,...
by Dave Avery | Aug 2, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers
This blog reports the results of Percona’s high availability poll. High availability (HA) is always a hot topic. The reality is that if your data is not available, your customers cannot do business with you. In fact, estimates show the average cost of downtime...
by Sveta Smirnova | Aug 1, 2016 | MySQL, Webinars
In this blog, I will provide answers to the Q & A for the “Introduction into storage engine troubleshooting” webinar. First, I want to thank everybody for attending the July 14 webinar. The recording and slides for the webinar are available here. Below...
by Federico Razzoli | Jul 29, 2016 | MariaDB, MySQL
In this blog post, we’ll look at the MariaDB 10.2 CHECK and DEFAULT clauses. MariaDB 10.2 includes some long-awaited features. In this blog, we are going to discuss the improvements to some table definitions: the DEFAULT clause and the CHECK constraints. These...
by Bob Davis | Jul 28, 2016 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.0.2 Beta on 28 July 2016. Like prior versions, PMM is distributed through Docker Hub and is free to download. Full instructions for download and installation of the server and client are available in...
by Dave Avery | Jul 28, 2016 | MySQL, Webinars
Join Brent Compton, Kyle Bader and Yves Trudeau on August 2, 2016 at 10 am PDT (UTC-7) for a MySQL and Ceph webinar. Many operators select OpenStack as their control plane of choice for providing both internal and external IT services. The OpenStack user survey...
by Kortney Runyan | Jul 27, 2016 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
This blog post lists the Percona Live Europe Amsterdam 2016 tutorial schedule. We are excited to announce that the tutorial schedule for the Percona Live Europe Amsterdam Open Source Database Conference 2016 is up! The Percona Live Europe Amsterdam Open Source...
by David Murphy | Jul 27, 2016 | MongoDB
In this blog, we’ll discuss monitoring MongoDB with Nagios. There is a significant amount of talk around graphing MongoDB metrics using things like Prometheus, Data Dog, New Relic, and Ops Manager from MongoDB Inc. However, I haven’t noticed a lot of talk...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Jul 26, 2016 | Benchmarks, MySQL
This blog post will detail the results of Samsung storage in tpcc-mysql benchmark using Percona Server. I had an opportunity to test different Samsung storage devices under tpcc-mysql benchmark powered by Percona Server 5.7. You can find a summary with details...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Jul 25, 2016 | MySQL
Percona announces the GA release of Percona XtraBackup 2.4.4 on July 25th, 2016. You can download it from our download site and from apt and yum repositories. Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for companies with...
by David Murphy | Jul 25, 2016 | MongoDB
In this post, I’m going to discuss MongoDB consistent backups, and how to achieve them. You might have read before that MongoDB backup is not consistent. But what if I told you there is a tool that could make them consistent. What if this tool also would make it...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jul 20, 2016 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Services
In this post, I’ll discuss how database support is good for your enterprise. Years ago when I worked for the MySQL Support organization at the original MySQL AB, we spoke about MySQL Support as insurance and focused on a value proposition similar to that of car...
by Dave Avery | Jul 19, 2016 | MySQL
Are you looking to improve your MySQL performance? Application success is often limited by poor MySQL performance. Please join Percona CEO and Founder Peter Zaitsev for this exclusive webinar on Wednesday, July 20th, 2016 at 11:00 AM PDT (UTC – 7) as he presents...
by Dave Avery | Jul 14, 2016 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Live
Come speak at Percona Live Europe, and get access to the entire conference. The Percona Live Open Source Database Performance Conference Europe 2016 is the premier event for the rich and diverse MySQL, MongoDB and ODBMS ecosystems in Europe. Attendees include DBAs,...
by Fernando Ipar | Jul 14, 2016 | MongoDB
In this post, I want to talk about MongoDB data durability options across MongoDB versions. I consider a write durable if, once confirmed by the server, it becomes permanent at the node or cluster level (ignoring catastrophic failures like all nodes on a cluster...
