by Colin Charles | Jun 4, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MariaDB, MySQL
This blog post was originally published in November 2017 and was updated in June 2023. In this blog, we’ll provide a comparison between MariaDB vs. MySQL (including Percona Server for MySQL). Introduction: MariaDB vs. MySQL The goal of this blog post is to...
by Lenz Grimmer | Sep 1, 2021 | MySQL, Percona Announcements, Percona Software
We’re excited to share that Marcelo Altmann from the Percona Server Engineering Team has just been promoted from Oracle ACE Associate to Oracle ACE. Congratulations! The Oracle ACE Program recognizes and rewards community members for their technical contributions to...
by Alex Poritskiy | Jan 25, 2018 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Open Source
In this blog post, we’ll provide an overview of the new MySQL 8.0 RESOURCE_GROUP feature. One great new feature introduced in MySQL 8.0 that – from my point of view – requires attention is RESOURCE_GROUP. Short disclaimer: I want to point out that MySQL 8.0 is...
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 Lorraine Pocklington, Community Manager | Sep 27, 2017 | Percona Live
Day one of the Percona Live Europe Conference was a huge hit. The first day of sessions went well. People spoke on many different open source database topics, and talks were well-attended. One such talk I got to sit in was on Spatial Data in MySQL 8.0, given by...
by Lorraine Pocklington, Community Manager | Sep 27, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Live, Storage Engine
Black coffee was flowing this morning for day two Percona Live Europe 2017 Keynotes after many of the delegates had spent a good few hours the night before enjoying Irish hospitality at the Community Dinner. So today Laurie Coffin, Chief Marketing Officer for Percona,...
by Dave Avery | Apr 26, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL, Percona Live
Welcome to the second day of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017, and the second set of Percona Live keynotes! It’s a bit rainy outside today, but that isn’t bothering the Percona Live attendees (we’re all indoors learning about new...
by Peter Zaitsev | Apr 18, 2017 | MariaDB, MySQL, Percona Live
In this blog post, I’ll discuss some of my thoughts about the future of MariaDB after attending the M17 Conference. Let me start with full disclosure: I’m the CEO of Percona, and we compete with the MariaDB Corporation in providing Support for MariaDB and other...
by Dave Avery | Mar 23, 2017 | MySQL, Percona Live
Welcome to another post in the series of Percona Live featured session blogs! In these blogs, we’ll highlight some of the session speakers that will be at this year’s Percona Live conference. We’ll also discuss how these sessions can help you improve your database...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Feb 15, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
This blog post is my overview of Group Replication technology. With Oracle clearly entering the “open source high availability solutions” arena with the release of their brand new Group Replication solution, I believe it is time to review the quality of the first GA...
by Dave Avery | Dec 29, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Live
Welcome to another post in the series of Percona Live featured tutorial speakers blogs! In these blogs, we’ll highlight some of the tutorial speakers that will be at this year’s Percona Live conference. We’ll also discuss how these tutorials can help you improve your...
by Dave Avery | Oct 5, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Live
Hello again, from day two of the sold out Percona Live Europe Open Source Database Conference! There is still much excitement here at the conference, and today looks to be just as busy as yesterday. Day two of Percona Live Europe 2016 kicked off once again with a...
by Dave Avery | Oct 4, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Live
Today was the first day of sessions at Percona Live Europe 2016, and it was packed with exciting talks and important information on open source databases. Some of the most anticipated talks are those that cover what to expect in MySQL 8.0. One of those talks was given...
by Dave Avery | Sep 1, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Live
Welcome to a new 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 21, 2016 | Percona Live
The second day of Percona Live 2016 is wrapping up, but I still wanted to get to one last lecture. Fortunately, there was a great one available: What’s New in MySQL with Geir Høydalsvik, Senior Software Development Director at Oracle, and Simon Mudd, DBA at...
by Kortney Runyan | Sep 10, 2015 | Percona Events
The countdown for the annual Percona Live Data Performance Conference and Expo in Europe continues with today’s announcement of our keynote speakers! This three-day conference focuses on the latest trends, news and best practices in the MySQL, NoSQL and data in the...
by Stephane Combaudon | Aug 7, 2015 | Benchmarks, MySQL
During the last couple of months I have been involved in an unusually high amount of performance audits for e-commerce applications running with Magento. And although the systems were quite different, they also had one thing in common: the MySQL query cache was very...
by Francisco Bordenave | Jul 29, 2015 | Benchmarks, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
MySQL 5.7 comes with a new set of features and multi-source replication is one of them. In few words this means that one slave can replicate from different masters simultaneously. During the last couple of months I’ve been playing a lot with this trying to...
by Jim Doherty | Jun 25, 2015 | MySQL
Oracle was in the news recently with the story of its license revenue declining as much as 17% in the recent quarter. This is blamed on transitioning to the cloud in some publications, but others, such as Bloomberg and TechRepublic, look deeper, seeing open source...
by Kortney Runyan | Jun 10, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Live
Percona Live is moving from London to Amsterdam this year and the event is also expanding to three full days. Percona Live Europe 2015, September 21-23, will be at the Mövenpick Hotel Amsterdam City Centre. The call for speakers and Super Saver registration are now...
