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Peter ZaitsevThis blog shows the results from Percona’s poll on what database technologies our readers use in their environment. We design different databases for different scenarios. Using one database technology for every situation doesn’t make sense, and can lead to non-optimal solutions for common issues. Big data and IoT applications, high availability, secure backups, security, cloud vs. on-premises deployment: each […]
This blog post discusses how better MySQL 8.0 benchmarks can improve MySQL in general. Like many in MySQL community, I’m very excited about what MySQL 8.0 offers. There are a lot of great features and architecture improvements. Also like many in the MySQL community, I would like to see MySQL 8.0 perform better. Better performance […]
In this blog post, I’ll discuss how to use the InnoDB buffer pool pre-load feature in MySQL 5.7 Starting MySQL 5.6, you can configure MySQL to save the contents of your InnoDB buffer pool and load it on startup. Starting in MySQL 5.7, this is the default behavior. Without any special effort, MySQL saves and […]
Let us know what you think about Percona, and what we should be thinking about for the future. Over the last ten years, Percona has grown considerably. We’ve moved from being a strictly MySQL company, to a company that supports MongoDB and other open source databases. Percona Live and Percona Live Europe have become key […]
In this blog post, I’ll discuss the future of TokuDB at Percona. Spoiler: solid. As soon as we announced the fact that MyRocks was coming to Percona Server for MySQL at Percona Live Europe, rumors appeared that this means we’re going to phase out TokuDB at the same time. I can understand why those […]
Announcing MyRocks in Percona Server for MySQL. RocksDB has been taking the world by the storm! RocksDB counts Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Airbnb and Netflix among its users. It is the storage engine for many open source database technologies, including CockroachDB, Apache Flink, TiKV and Dgraph. It is also integrated with MySQL and MongoDB as the MyRocks and […]
As noted in several media outlets, many web sites have been affected by a DDoS attack on Dyn today. Since Percona uses Dyn for its DNS server, we are experiencing issues as well. The attack has impacted the percona.com web site availability and performance, including all related services such as our forums, blogs and […]
As part of the release of Percona Monitoring and Management, we set up an extensive online Percona Monitoring and Management demo at pmmdemo.percona.com. The demo is pretty self-explanatory and easy to explore, but you will probably find it a lot more interesting with some explanation. This post provides some guidance. The PMM demo has a […]
Around this time last year, Gartner named Percona a Challenger in the 2015 Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems (Gartner Operational DBMS MQ). For those not familiar with these, Magic Quadrants (MQ) are a set of market research reports published by Gartner that provide qualitative analysis into a market by highlighting its participants, relevant trends, […]
This blog post is a summary of the webinar Percona Software News and Roadmap Update – Q3 2016 given by Peter Zaitsev on September 28th, 2016. Over the last few months, I’ve had the opportunity to meet and talk with many of Percona’s customers. I love these meetings, and I always get a bunch of […]
In this blog post, I’ll review some of the open source database technologies discussions at Percona Live Europe. I’ve already written about the exciting PostgreSQL and MongoDB content at Percona Live Europe in Amsterdam, and now I’m going to highlight some of our open source database content. In the last five years, the open […]
This blog post discussed the advantages of SSDs over HDDs for database environments. For years now, I’ve been telling audiences for my MySQL Performance talk the following: if you are running an I/O-intensive database on spinning disks you’re doing it wrong. But there are still a surprising number of laggards who aren’t embracing SSD storage […]
This year, you will find a great deal about MongoDB at Percona Live Europe. As we continue to work on growing the independent MongoDB ecosystem, this year’s Percona Live Europe in Amsterdam includes many talks about MongoDB. If your company uses MongoDB technologies, is focused exclusively on developing with MongoDB or MongoDB operations, or is […]
Introducing PostgreSQL Day at Percona Live Europe, Amsterdam 2016. As modern open source database deployments change, often including more than just a single open source database, Percona Live has also changed. We changed our model from being a purely MySQL-focused conference (with variants) to include a significant amount of MongoDB content. We’ve also expanded our […]
I’m pleased to announce the latest Percona Server for MongoDB feature: Percona Memory Engine for MongoDB. Everybody understands that memory is much faster than disk – even the fastest solid state storage can’t compete with it. As such the choice for the most demanding workloads, where performance and predictable latency are paramount, is in-memory computing. […]
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 insurance. You must purchase car insurance before the incident […]
In this blog, we’ll use some test results to look at the rationale for using provisioned IOPS volumes for AWS databases. One piece of advice you often hear running MySQL, MongoDB or other databases in the AWS EC2 environment is that you should use volumes with provisioned IOPs. This kind of makes sense on the “marketing” […]
This blog post discusses Percona’s future plans for TokuMX, PerconaFT, and MongoRocks for MongoDB 3.2 and later releases. At Percona, we focus on providing the best solution for our customers, rather than falling into “big ego,” “not invented here” or “sunk cost fallacy” messages. We have limited engineering resources and want to concentrate on the things […]
If you can make it to Manhattan Thursday, June 30, 2016, please join me at the Community Open House for MongoDB. The Community Open House for MongoDB, held from 9 AM to 6 PM at the Park Central Hotel, is a free and open event that will feature technical presentations and sessions from key members of the MongoDB […]
This blog post discusses what is going on in the MySQL high availability market, and what Percona’s plans are for helping customers with high availability solutions. One thing I like to tell people is that you shouldn’t view Percona as a “software” company, but as a “solution” company. Our goal has always been to provide the […]