This blog post is a summary of the Percona Software and Roadmap Update – Q2 2017 webinar given by Peter Zaitsev on May 4, 2017. This webinar reflects changes and updates since the last update (Q1 2017).
A full recording of this webinar, along with the presentation slide deck, can be found here.
Percona Software
Below are the latest and upcoming features in Percona’s software. All of Percona’s software is 100% free and open source, with no restricted “Enterprise” version. Percona doesn’t restrict users with open core or “open source, eventually” (BSL) licenses.
Percona Server for MySQL 5.7
Latest Improvements
- Column Compression now available in Percona Server 5.7
- MySQL Group Replication included
- Experimental MyRocks build available
Features About To Be Released
- Integration of TokuDB and Performance Schema
- MyRocks integration in Percona Server
- Starting to look towards MySQL 8
Percona XtraBackup 2.4
Latest Improvements
- Hardware accelerated crc32 for page and log checksums
- Parallel stream extraction
- Parallel encryption and decryption
Percona Toolkit
Latest Improvements
- Initial support for MongoDB:
- New tools implemented in Go
- Performance Schema support in pt-stalk
Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4
Latest Improvements
- Updated MongoRocks storage engine
- Updated Percona Memory storage engine
- PerconaFT storage engine no longer available
- Log redaction (sensitive data masking)
- Profile rate limiting (query sampling)
- Hot backup for WiredTiger and MongoRocks
Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7
Latest Improvements
- Up to 10 times better performance
- Parallel State Transfer support with Percona XtraBackup
- Better instrumentation of Flow Control Status
- Instrumentation of Incremental State Transfer (IST)
Performance Improvement Benchmarks
Below, you can see the benchmarks for improvements to Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7 performance. You can read about the improvements and benchmark tests in more detail here and here.
Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7 Integrated with ProxySQL 1.3
- proxysql-admin script to simplify configuration
- Support for Zero Downtime Maintenance
- Support even larger number of connections
- Support for Prepared Statements (experimental)
Percona Monitoring and Management
New in Percona Monitoring and Management
- Continuing to improve and expand dashboards with every release:
- Includes Grafana 4.2 (with basic Alerting)
- SSL support for server-agent communications
- Supports authentication for server-agent communication
- Added support for Amazon RDS
- Reduced space consumption by using advanced compression
- AMI and OVA builds
Advanced MariaDB Dashboards in PMM (Links go to PMM Demo)
Improved MongoDB Dashboards in PMM (Links go to PMM Demo)
Check out the PMM Demo
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