by Jervin Real | Jan 31, 2018 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
The Aurora hash join feature for relational databases has been around for a while now. But unlike MySQL Block Nested Loop algorithm, an Aurora hash join only caters to a specific number of use cases. When implemented with the optimizer properly, they can provide great...
by Dave Avery | Jan 15, 2018 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Live
Take a look at the sneak peek of the breakout sessions for the Percona Live 2018 Open Source Database Conference, taking place April 23-25, 2018 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. Early Bird registration discounts are available until...
by Lorraine Pocklington, Community Manager | Jan 3, 2018 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Services, Percona Software
In 2017 we have welcomed many new customers into the Percona fold. It’s always interesting to find out what challenges the Percona team helped them to address and how they chose their relationship with Percona. As unbiased champions of open source database software,...
by Dave Avery | Dec 14, 2017 | Cloud, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL
Fill out a quick survey on your cloud database plans. Today, keeping your enterprise agile and flexible is not just an advantage, it is a requirement. Many of the systems and processes once controlled by businesses onsite are moving offsite to “service” models. This...
by Colin Charles | Dec 13, 2017 | Cloud, Hardware and Storage, Insight for DBAs, Percona Software, Webinars
Join Percona’s Chief Evangelist, Colin Charles as he presents Capacity Planning for Your Data Stores on Friday, December 15, 2017, at 7:00 am PST / 10:00 am EST (UTC-8). In this webinar, Colin uses a ticket sales website that does “normal” events like an M2M concert,...
by Tim Sharp | Dec 12, 2017 | Cloud, Webinars
Join Percona Technical Account Manager Tim Sharp, Percona Senior MySQL DBA for Managed Services Dov Endress, and Lookout Director of Engineering Michael Fortson as they present Best Practices When Right-Sizing Your Aurora Footprint on Thursday, December 14, 2017, at...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Nov 28, 2017 | MySQL
In this blog post I’ll look at the performance of Percona XtraDB Cluster on AWS using different service instances, and recommend some best practices for maximizing performance. You can use Percona XtraDB Cluster in AWS environments. We often get questions about...
by Tyler Duzan | Oct 19, 2017 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MongoDB, MySQL
Percona latest blog poll asks how you currently host applications and databases. Select an option below, or leave a comment to clarify your deployment! With the increased need for environments that respond more quickly to changing business demands, many enterprises...
by Emily Ikuta | Oct 3, 2017 | Cloud, MySQL
Join Percona’s Chief Evangelist, Colin Charles as he presents Databases in the Hosted Cloud on Wednesday, October 4, 2017, at 7:00 am PDT / 10:00 am EDT (UTC-7). Register Now Today you can use hosted MySQL/MariaDB/Percona Server for MySQL/PostgreSQL in several...
by Tyler Duzan | Sep 21, 2017 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Services
This blog post will give a brief overview of Amazon RDS capabilities and limitations, and how Percona Support can help you succeed in your Amazon RDS deployments. One of the common questions that we get from customers and prospective customers is about Percona Support...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jun 9, 2017 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, MySQL
In this blog, we will provide answers to the Q & A for the MySQL In the Cloud: Migration, Best Practices, High Availability, Scaling webinar. First, we want to thank everybody for attending the June 7, 2017 webinar. The recording and slides for the webinar are...
by Dave Avery | Apr 26, 2017 | Cloud, MariaDB, MySQL, Percona Live
Percona Live 2017 is done for Wednesday, but there was still time to get in one more talk before tonight’s Community Networking Reception – and the last one of the evening was about Amazon RDS. Darin Briskman, Lead Developer Outreach & Technical Evangelist...
by Dave Avery | Apr 26, 2017 | Cloud, Percona Live
Percona Live 2017 is rolling along, and now that everybody got through lunch we’re all recharged and ready for the afternoon. Let’s start it out with Amazon Aurora. Once of the best-attended sessions was Sailesh Krishnamurthy’s (Senior Engineering...
by Dave Avery | Sep 22, 2016 | MySQL
Welcome to another Percona Live Europe featured talk with Percona Live Europe 2016: Amsterdam speakers! In this series of blogs, we’ll highlight some of the speakers that will be at this year’s conference. We’ll also discuss the technologies and outlooks of the...
by Dave Avery | Apr 20, 2016 | Percona Live
We’ve started the second full day at Percona Live 2016, and again we had some pretty impressive and fascinating keynote speakers. This morning featured four keynote talks from some pretty heavy hitters in our industry: Anurag Gupta, Vice President of Big Data...
by Fernando Ipar | Feb 1, 2016 | Benchmarks
In a recent post, Vadim compared the performance of Amazon Aurora and Percona Server on AWS. This time, I am comparing write throughput for InnoDB and TokuDB, using the same workload (sysbench oltp/update/update_non_index) and a similar set-up (r3.xlarge instance,...
by Kortney Runyan | Dec 17, 2015 | Percona Events, Percona Live
On behalf of the Percona Live Conference Committee, I am excited to announce the sneak peek schedule for the Percona Live Data Performance Conference and Expo 2016! Percona Live Data Performance Conference and Expo Live 2016 will feature a variety of formal tracks and...
by Tom Diederich | Aug 13, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
Storage. Everyone needs it. Whether your data is in MySQL, a NoSQL, or somewhere in the cloud, with ever-growing data volumes – along with the need for SSDs to cut latency and replication to provide insurance – an organization’s storage footprint is an...
by Kortney Runyan | Jul 20, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
The Percona Live Data Performance Conference in Amsterdam is just two months away and it’s going to be an incredible event. With a new expanded focus on MySQL, NoSQL, and Data in the Cloud, this conference will be jam-packed with talks from some of the industry’s...
by Michael Coburn | Jun 19, 2015 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software, Webinars
Last week I hosted a webinar on using MySQL in the cloud for High Availability (HA) alongside 451 Research analyst Jason Stamper. You can watch the recording and also download the slides (free) here. Just click the “Register” button at the end of that...
