The Percona Database Performance Blog

When pt-online-schema-change “where” Meets Galera: Understanding Chunk Auto-Resize and Flow Control

Percona Toolkit’s pt-online-schema-change (pt-osc) has long been the preferred solution for performing online schema changes with minimal downti...

DISTANCE() and VECTOR_DISTANCE(): Vector Similarity in Percona Server for MySQL 9.7

TL;DR Percona Server for MySQL 9.7.2-2 now supports DISTANCE() for vector similarity scoring directly in SQL (COSINE, EUCLIDEAN, MANHATTAN, DOT metric...

Evaluating LLM models for DBA tasks

  Evaluating LLM Models for DBA Tasks Large language models are increasingly capable of performing practical systems-administration tasks. I want...

Group Replication Beyond a Single Cluster: DC-DR with Percona (PS MySQL) Operator

A while ago, we discussed the cross-site replication feature of the Percona PXC operator. Recently, a similar cross-site replication feature was intro...

Too many GCache Page Files in MySQL Data Directory

Learn why PXC accumulates thousands of gcache.page.* files, how frozen GCache purging causes disk growth, and how to safely recover and rejoin using I...

pgBackRest Compression: How Much CPU Is a Smaller Backup Worth?

In this blog post, we’ll compare pgBackRest’s compression algorithms and levels to find where spending more CPU stops buying a meaningfull...

Performance improvements in Percona Server 8.4.11-11

Focusing on Percona Server 8.4.11-11 My previous post (Performance Progression of Percona Server for MySQL 8.4) did a brief review of the performance ...

Percona and HexaCluster: Faster, Safer Oracle Migration

Percona and HexaCluster have partnered to remove the hardest part of an open source database migration: getting off Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 or Sybase ...

Enabling TLS in PXC without Downtime

Starting with Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) 8.0, replication traffic encryption is enabled by default. That said, it’s common to find clusters ru...

Percona Operator for PostgreSQL 3.1.0: Transparent Data Encryption, Logical Replicas, and Persistent Logging

Percona Operator for PostgreSQL 3.1.0 takes on three things that decide whether a PostgreSQL platform passes review: is the data encrypted at rest, ca...