by Matt Griffin | Nov 14, 2014 | Benchmarks, Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL, Percona Software
One of the big announcements at the Amazon Web Services re:Invent 2014 conference this week was the unveiling of Aurora. The result of years of internal work, Aurora, currently in preview, is a MySQL 5.6-compatible option that “combines the speed and availability of...
by Jay Janssen | Nov 14, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Thanks to all who attended my Nov. 12 webinar titled, “Percona XtraDB Cluster as a MySQL HA Solution for OpenStack.” I had several questions which I covered at the end and a few that I didn’t. You can view the entire webinar and download the slides...
by Aurimas Mikalauskas | Nov 14, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
This blog post was inspired by my visit at the annual Zabbix Conference in Riga, Latvia this year, where I gave a couple of talks on MySQL and beyond. It was a two-day single-track event with some 200 participants, a number of interesting talks on Zabbix (and related...
by Terry Erisman | Nov 13, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
The 2014 edition of Percona Live London brought together attendees from 30 countries to hear insightful talks from leaders in the MySQL community. The conference kicked off on Monday with a full day of tutorials followed by the very popular Community Dinner featuring...
by Terry Erisman | Nov 11, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
The OpenStack Live conference in Silicon Valley (April 13-14, 2015) will emphasize the essential elements of making OpenStack perform better with emphasis on the critical role of MySQL and Trove. If you use OpenStack and have a story to share or a skill to teach, we...
by Matt Griffin | Nov 10, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
November is a busy month of events for Percona. Conferences in Moscow, London, Paris, Las Vegas, Buenos Aires, and Montevideo mean our experts are racking up the frequent flyer miles meeting users of Percona software from around the world, sharing our insights on...
by Bill Karwin | Oct 23, 2014 | Insight for Developers, MySQL, Webinars
Yesterday (Oct. 22) I gave a presentation titled “MySQL 5.6 Full Text Search Throwdown.” If you missed it, you can still register to view the recording and my slides. Thanks to everyone who attended, and especially to folks who asked the great questions. I...
by Fernando Laudares Camargos | Oct 21, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Software
I reckon there’s little sense in running 2 or more Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) nodes in a single physical server other than for educational and testing purposes – but doing so is still useful in those cases. The most popular way of achieving this seems to...
by Tim.Callaghan | Oct 16, 2014 | MySQL
In a few weeks I’m presenting “Performance Benchmarking: Tips, Tricks, and Lessons Learned” at Percona Live London 2014 (November 3-4). I continue to learn lessons and improve my benchmarking capabilities, so the content is a full upgrade from my...
by David Busby | Oct 15, 2014 | MySQL, Security
Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption First off, the naming “convention” as of late for security issues has been terrible. The newest vulnerability (CVE-2014-3566) is nicknamed POODLE, which at least is an acronym and as per the header above has...
by Peter Zaitsev | Oct 10, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Software
MySQL has information_schema.tables that contain information such as “data_length” or “avg_row_length.” Documentation on this table however is quite poor, making an assumption that those fields are self explanatory – they are not when it...
by Stephane Combaudon | Sep 29, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
MySQL is the database of choice for most OpenStack components (Ceilometer is a notable exception). If you start with a small deployment, it will probably run like a charm. But as soon as the dataset grows, you will suddenly face several challenges. We will write a...
by Tim.Callaghan | Sep 25, 2014 | MySQL
The biggest innovation in TokuDB v7.5 is Read Free Replication (RFR). I blogged a few days ago posting a benchmark showing how much additional throughput can be achieved on a replication slave, while at the same time lowering the read IO operations to almost zero. The...
by Tim.Callaghan | Sep 23, 2014 | MySQL
New to TokuDB® v7.5 is a feature we’re calling “Read Free Replication” (RFR). RFR allows TokuDB replication slaves to process insert, update, and delete statements with almost no read IO. As a result, the slave can easily keep up with the master (no...
by Tim.Callaghan | Sep 18, 2014 | MySQL
Today we released TokuDB® v7.5, the latest version of Tokutek’s storage engine for MySQL and MariaDB. I’ll be publishing two blogs next week to go into more details about our new “Read Free Replication”, but here are high level descriptions of...
by Rich.Prohaska | Aug 6, 2014 | MySQL
Covering indexes can result in orders of magnitude performance improvements for queries. Bradley’s presentation on covering indexes describes what a covering index is, how it can effect performance, and why it works. However, the definition of a covering index...
by Bill Karwin | Jul 17, 2014 | Insight for Developers, MySQL, Webinars
On Wednesday I gave a presentation on “How to Avoid Even More Common (but Deadly) MySQL Development Mistakes” for Percona MySQL Webinars. If you missed it, you can still register to view the recording and my slides. Thanks to everyone who attended, and...
by Martin Arrieta | Jul 11, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
by Michael Coburn | Jul 2, 2014 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
I recently had an opportunity to migrate a customer from a physical server into Amazon’s RDS environment. In this particular case the customers’ platform makes extensive use of MySQL triggers and views. I came across two significant issues that prevented...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Jun 13, 2014 | MySQL
In my last post, I gave a technical explanation of the performance characteristics of partitioned collections in TokuMX 1.5 (which is right around the corner) and partitioned tables in relational databases. Given those performance characteristics, in this post, I will...
