by Dave Avery | Jan 28, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona is calling on you! Vote Percona for Database of the Year in LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards 2015. Help our Percona Server get recognized as one of the best database options for data performance. Percona Server is a free, fully compatible, enhanced,...
by Miguel Angel Nieto | Jan 28, 2016 | MongoDB, MySQL
by David Avery | Jan 27, 2016 | MongoDB
Differentiating Between MongoDB Storage Engines: PerconaFT In this series of posts, we discussed what a storage engine is, and how you can determine the characteristics of one versus the other: “A database storage engine is the underlying software that a DBMS uses to...
by Dave Avery | Jan 27, 2016 | Percona Events
As a company that believes in and supports the open source community, embracing innovation and change is par for the course at Percona. We wouldn’t be the company we are today without fostering a culture that rewards creative thinking and rapid evolution. Part of this...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jan 26, 2016 | MySQL
So you want to know how much space a given MySQL table takes on disk. Looks trivial, right? Shouldn’t this information be readily available in the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES? Not so fast! This simple question actually is quite complicated in MySQL. MySQL supports many...
by Sveta Smirnova | Jan 25, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
by Dave Avery | Jan 22, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Events
Percona invites you to attend a webinar Wednesday, January 27th, with CEO Peter Zaitsev: Compression In Open Source Databases. Register now! Data growth has been tremendous in the last decade and shows no signs of stopping. To deal with this trend database...
by Kortney Runyan | Jan 22, 2016 | MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events
The Percona Live Data Performance Conference 2016 is rapidly approaching, and we’re looking forward to providing an outstanding experience April 18-21 for all whom attend. Percona Live is the premier event for the rich and diverse open source community and businesses...
by Alexander Rubin | Jan 21, 2016 | MySQL
We’d like to thank everybody for joining us on January 7th for our “Tired of MySQL Making You Wait?” webinar with Percona’s Alexander Rubin, Principal Consultant and SolarWinds’ Janis Griffin, Database Evangelist. Too often developers and DBAs struggle to pinpoint the...
by David Avery | Jan 20, 2016 | MongoDB
Differentiating Between MongoDB Storage Engines: RocksDB In this series of posts, we discussed what a storage engine is, and how you can determine the characteristics of one versus the other: “A database storage engine is the underlying software that a DBMS uses...
by Miguel Angel Nieto | Jan 19, 2016 | MySQL
Data corruption! It can happen. Maybe because of a bug or storage problem that you didn’t expect, or MySQL crashes when a page checksum’s result is different from what is expected. Either way, corrupted InnoDB data can and does occur. What do you do then?...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Jan 15, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
This is a followup to my previous post Apache Spark with Air ontime performance data. To recap an interesting point in that post: when using 48 cores with the server, the result was worse than with 12 cores. I wanted to understand the reason is was true, so I started...
by David Busby | Jan 14, 2016 | MySQL, Security
Earlier today advisories were sent out regarding OpenSSH versions 5.4 through 7.1., informing users about a security bug in the software. In essence, the advisory instructed people to add the UseRoaming no option to their ssh_config file, with a promise for further...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jan 14, 2016 | MySQL
When I first discovered Graphite years ago, I was very impressed with its monitoring capabilities. Compared to many RRD-based tools that were popular at the time (like Cacti), Graphite separated the captured data and graphs, allowing you to do all kinds of math and...
by Dave Avery | Jan 12, 2016 | Percona Services
The Only Sure Thing is Percona Powerball Pool Everyone is talking about the upcoming Powerball lottery draw. 1.4 BILLION dollars!! And growing! Millions of people are imagining what they would do IF they win. It’s the stuff of dreams. That is literally true. The...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Jan 12, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.28-76.1 on January 12, 2016. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories. Based on MySQL 5.6.28, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Jan 12, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.47-37.7 on January 12, 2016. Based on MySQL 5.5.47, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.47-37.7 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. Percona Server is open-source and free....
by Roman Vynar | Jan 12, 2016 | Percona Events
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.1.6. Changelog: Added new RDS instance classes to RDS scripts. Added boto profile support to RDS scripts. Added AWS region support and ability to specify all regions to RDS scripts. Added ability...
by Dave Avery | Jan 11, 2016 | Cloud, MySQL
Enterprises’ demand flexibility, scalability and efficiency to keep up with the demands of their customers — while maintaining the bottom line. To solve this, they’re running to cloud infrastructure services to both cut costs and take advantage of...
by Dave Avery | Jan 11, 2016 | MongoDB
Differentiating Between MongoDB Storage Engines: WiredTiger In our last post, we discussed what a storage engine is, and how you can determine the characteristics of one versus the other. From that post: “A database storage engine is the underlying software that...
