by Dave Avery | Apr 20, 2016 | Percona Live
Percona Live 2016 had a great first day, with an impressive number of speakers and topics. I was able to attend a session in the afternoon with Luis Soares, Principal Software Engineer at Oracle, on High Availability Using MySQL Group Replication. MySQL Group...
by Dave Avery | Apr 19, 2016 | MySQL
Percona Live is humming along, and we had quite a whirlwind keynote session this morning. Bill Nye the Science Guy gave an amazing talk, Bill Nye’s Objective – Change the World, on how the process of science and critical thinking can help us not only be positive...
by Dave Avery | Apr 19, 2016 | Percona Live
We’re are rapidly moving through day one of the Percona Live Data Performance Conference, and I’m surrounded by incredibly smart people all discussing amazing database techniques and technology. The depth of solutions represented here, and the technical...
by Dave Avery | Apr 19, 2016 | Percona Live
We’re moving along on the first day at Percona Live 2016, and I was able to attend a lecture from Intel’s Ken LeTourneau, Solutions Architect at Intel, on Performance of Percona Server for MySQL on Intel Server Systems using HDD, SATA SSD, and NVMe SSD as...
by Dave Avery | Apr 19, 2016 | Percona Live
Today was day one of the Percona Live Data Performance Conference! The day began with some excellent keynote speakers and exciting topics, and the packed room was eager to hear what our speakers had to say! Peter Zaitsev, CEO, Percona Percona Opening Keynote Peter...
by Alexey Zhebel | Apr 19, 2016 | MongoDB, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is pleased to announce the release of Percona Server for MongoDB 3.2.4-1.0rc2 on April 19, 2016. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. Percona Server for MongoDB is an enhanced, open source, fully...
by Bob Davis | Apr 18, 2016 | MySQL
Percona is excited to announce the launch of Percona Monitoring and Management Beta! Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a fully open source solution for both managing MySQL platform performance and tuning query performance. It allows DBAs and application...
by Krunal Bauskar | Apr 17, 2016 | Percona Software
In this blog, we’ll discuss how Percona XtraDB Cluster certification works. Percona XtraDB Cluster replicates actions executed on one node to all other nodes in the cluster and make it fast enough to appear as it if is synchronous (aka virtually synchronous)....
by Dave Avery | Apr 16, 2016 | Percona Services
The last email introduced two members of the Percona Database Performance Team: The Maven and The Specialist. Now we’re ready to reveal the identity of the final three team members. The Database Performance Team is comprised of our services experts, who work...
by Sveta Smirnova | Apr 16, 2016 | MySQL
In this blog, I will provide answers to the Webinar Q & A for Introduction to Troubleshooting Performance: What Affects Query Execution? First, I want to thank you for attending the April, 7 webinar. This webinar is the third in the “MySQL...
by Alexander Rubin | Apr 15, 2016 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Live
by Peter Zaitsev | Apr 15, 2016 | MySQL
This blog will discuss some recent developments with MySQL document store. Starting MySQL 5.7.12, MySQL can be used as a real document store. This is great news! In this blog post, I am going to look into the history-making MySQL work better for “NoSQL” workloads and...
by Dave Avery | Apr 14, 2016 | Percona Live
Welcome to the last Percona Live featured talk with Percona Live Data Performance Conference 2016 speakers! In this series of blogs, we’ll highlight some of the speakers that will be at this year’s conference, as well as discuss the technologies and outlooks of the...
by Tibor Korocz | Apr 13, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In our previous post, we showed how Orchestrator can handle complex replication topologies. Today we will discuss how the Orchestrator-agent complements Orchestrator by monitoring our servers, and provides us a snapshot and recovery abilities if there are problems....
by Vadim Tkachenko | Apr 13, 2016 | Benchmarks, MySQL
This blog post is an update to our last post discussing database compression methods, and how they stack up against each other. When Vadim and I wrote about Evaluating Database Compression Methods last month, we claimed that evaluating database compression algorithms...
by Dave Avery | Apr 12, 2016 | Percona Live
Welcome to the next Percona Live featured talk with Percona Live Data Performance Conference 2016 speakers! In this series of blogs, we’ll highlight some of the speakers that will be at this year’s conference, as well as discuss the technologies and outlooks of the...
by Peter Zaitsev | Apr 12, 2016 | Percona Live
This blog post will discuss what the Adaptive Hash Index in InnoDB is used for, and whether it is a good fit for your workload. Adaptive Hash Index (AHI) is one of the least understood features in InnoDB. In theory, it magically determines when it is worth...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Apr 11, 2016 | MySQL
In this blog post we’ll discuss a caveat when downloading MariaDB MaxScale binaries. Following the previous performance results in my last two posts on sysbench and primary keys...
by Krunal Bauskar | Apr 11, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Software
In this blog, we will examine the differences between GCache and Record-Set Cache in Percona XtraDB Cluster. In Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC), there is the concept of GCache and Record-Set cache (which can also be called transaction write-set cache). The use of these...
by Krunal Bauskar | Apr 11, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Software
In this blog, we’ll discuss how the Percona XtraDB Cluster threading model works. Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) creates a different set of threads to service its operations. These threads are in addition to existing MySQL threads. Let’s understand what...
