by David Stokes | Mar 16, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL
Oracle released MySQL 8.0.28 on January 18th with little fanfare, as part of their four times a year release cycle. So what is included in the new release? Over the past few years, there have been some cool new features included in these ‘dot’ releases that some in...
by Manish Chawla | Mar 10, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL, Percona Software
KMIP (Key Management Interoperability Protocol) is an open standard developed by OASIS (Organization for Advancement of Structured Information Standards) for the encryption of stored data and cryptographic key management. Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.27 and Percona...
by Vinicius Grippa | Feb 28, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
A little bit ago, I released a blog post comparing the backup performance of different MySQL tools such as mysqldump, the MySQL Shell feature called Instance Dump, mysqlpump, mydumper, and Percona XtraBackup. You can find the first analysis here: Backup Performance...
by Nik Krichko | Feb 16, 2022 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL
It is always hard to select a CPU for your own purpose. You could waste hours reviewing different benchmarks, reviews, and bloggers, and in the end, we would limit all our requirements to performance and price. For performance measuring we already have some specific...
by Rahul malik | Feb 11, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Incremental backups of MySQL, specifically for the InnoDB engine, are taken by copying modified pages from the previous backup. The brute force method takes backups by scanning every page in tablespace file in the server data directory is an expensive operation. The...
by Arunjith Aravindan | Feb 9, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
It is essential to upgrade MySQL to the most recent version. Do you believe it’s tough to test and upgrade to a newer version? For a variety of reasons, including new features, performance advantages, bug corrections, and so on, databases with obsolete versions are...
by Rahul malik | Feb 8, 2022 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona XtraBackup delivers the xbcloud binary – an auxiliary tool to allow users to upload backups to different cloud providers directly. Today we are glad to announce the support of the Azure Blob storage to xbcloud. This new feature will allow you to...
by Przemysław Malkowski | Feb 3, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) offers a great deal of flexibility when it comes to the state transfer (SST) options (used when a new node is automatically provisioned with data). For many environments, on-the-fly compression capability gives great benefits of saving...
by Sergey Pronin | Jan 27, 2022 | Cloud, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Software
Operators are a software framework that extends Kubernetes API and enables application deployment and management through the control plane. For such complex technologies as databases, Operators play a crucial role by automating deployment and day-to-day operations. At...
by Marcelo Altmann | Jan 20, 2022 | MySQL, Percona Software
Backups are a key part of a disaster recovery strategy, making sure you can continue or restore your business in case of an unwanted event with your data. We always work on trying to improve Percona XtraBackup reliability, always favoring consistency, attempting to...
by Carlos Tutte | Jan 18, 2022 | MySQL, Percona Software
The most common issue when using row-based replication (RBR) is replication lag due to the lack of Primary keys. The problem is that any replicated DML will do a full table scan for each modified row on the replica. This bug report explains it more in-depth:...
by Nik Krichko | Jan 17, 2022 | Benchmarks, Cloud, MySQL
Recently we published the first part (m5, m5a, m6g) and the second part (C5, C5a, C6g) of research regarding comparing Graviton ARM with AMD and Intel CPU on AWS. We selected general-purpose EC2 instances with the same configurations (amount of vCPU in the first...
by Marco Tusa | Jan 11, 2022 | MySQL, Percona Software
In April 2021, I wrote an article about Online DDL and Group Replication. At that time we were dealing with MySQL 8.0.23 and also opened a bug report which did not have the right answer to the case presented. Anyhow, in that article I have shown how an online DDL was...
by Matt Yonkovit | Jan 5, 2022 | Database Trends, Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL
With modern application design, systems are becoming more diverse, varied and have more components than ever before. Developers are often forced to become master chefs adding the ingredients from dozens of different technologies and blending them together to create...
by Francisco Bordenave | Jan 5, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
Recently we were asked to check the performance of the new family of AMD EPYC processors when using MySQL in Google Cloud Virtual Machines. This was motivated by a user running MySQL in the N1 machines family and willing to upgrade to N2D generation considering the...
by Mike Benshoof | Jan 4, 2022 | MySQL, Percona Software, Security
Security will always be a main focal point of a company’s data. A common question I get from clients is, “how do I enable encryption?” Like every good consulting answer, it depends on what you are trying to encrypt. This post is a high-level summary...
by Yves Trudeau | Jan 4, 2022 | Benchmarks, MySQL
Following my post MySQL/ZFS Performance Update, a few people have suggested I should take a look at BTRFS (“butter-FS”, “b-tree FS”) with MySQL. BTRFS is a filesystem with an architecture and a set of features that are similar to ZFS and with a...
by Sveta Smirnova | Dec 31, 2021 | MySQL, Percona Announcements
In Percona Support we spend a few hours per week doing Labs: short collective projects, not directly related to the tickets. One of our last labs was about to get ready for the winter holiday season which means preparing the tree and decorating it. To do it we used...
by Pep Pla | Dec 30, 2021 | MongoDB, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management 2 (PMM2) is the database monitoring suite assembled and developed by Percona. It is based on standard open source components and custom-made software integrations. PMM2 helps you reduce complexity, optimize performance, and improve...
by Sveta Smirnova | Dec 29, 2021 | Insight for Developers, MySQL, Webinars
First I want to thank everyone who attended my November 16, 2021 webinar “MySQL Performance for DevOps“. Recording and slides are available on the webinar page. Here are answers to the questions from participants which I was not able to provide during the webinar. Q:...
