by Peter Zaitsev | May 7, 2018 | Insight for DBAs, Percona Software, Webinars
Please join Percona’s CEO, Peter Zaitsev as he presents MySQL Troubleshooting and Performance Optimization with PMM on Wednesday, May 9, 2018, at 11:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 2:00 PM EDT (UTC-4). Optimizing MySQL performance and troubleshooting MySQL problems are two of the...
by Colin Charles | Feb 16, 2018 | Cloud, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Events, Percona Software, PostgreSQL, ProxySQL
Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. In case you missed last week’s column, don’t forget to read the fairly lengthy FOSDEM MySQL & Friends...
by Borys Belinsky | Feb 5, 2018 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.1.8. Changelog Add MySQL 5.7 support Changed a canary check to use timestamp.now() and return a timedelta.seconds Remove an additional condition for the Dictionary memory allocated Fixed a...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jan 5, 2018 | MySQL, Webinars
Thank you for attending my webinar on Wednesday, December 20, 2017, InnoDB Performance Optimization. In this blog, I will provide answers to the Q & A for the webinar. Are the T2 CPUs similar to the M4 series? I would expect them to be similar. Amazon does not...
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 29, 2017 | Benchmarks, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL
Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2017. The closing of a year lends itself to looking back. And making lists. With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open...
by Colin Charles | Dec 22, 2017 | MySQL
Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. I think the biggest news from last week was from cPanel – if you haven’t already read the post, please do – on Being a...
by Barrett Chambers | Dec 21, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Services, Percona Software
As we close out the holiday season, let’s look at some data that tells us how to guarantee a successful Black Friday (from a database perspective). There are certain peak times of the year where companies worldwide hold their breath in the hope that their...
by Colin Charles | Dec 20, 2017 | Cloud, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Live, PostgreSQL
Percona is extending the Percona Live 2018 call for papers deadline to January 12, 2018! Percona’s gift to you this holiday season is the gift of time – submit your speaking topics right up until January 12, 2018! As the year winds up, we received many requests...
by Peter Schwaller | Dec 20, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events
We’re completing our move of Percona bug tracking into JIRA, and the drop-dead date is December 28, 2017. For some time now, Percona has maintained both the legacy Launchpad bug tracking system and a JIRA bug tracking system for some of the newer products. The...
by Yves Trudeau | Dec 7, 2017 | Hardware and Storage, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
This post is a hands-on look at ZFS with MySQL. In my previous post, I highlighted the similarities between MySQL and ZFS. Before going any further, I’d like you to be able to play and experiment with ZFS. This post shows you how to configure ZFS with MySQL in a...
by Alexey Zhebel | Nov 1, 2017 | MongoDB, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MongoDB 3.2.17-3.8 on October 31, 2017. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. Percona Server for MongoDB is an enhanced, open-source, fully compatible, highly...
by Colin Charles | Oct 20, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. I spent all of this week at O’Reilly Velocity EU London. I gave a tutorial, a talk and generally networked with...
by Alexey Zhebel | Sep 27, 2017 | MongoDB, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MongoDB 3.2.16-3.7 on September 27, 2017. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. Percona Server for MongoDB is an enhanced, open-source, fully compatible, highly...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Sep 13, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, MySQL
In this blog, I’ll look at how to use ClickHouse for parallel log processing. Percona is seen primarily for our expertise in MySQL and MongoDB (at this time), but neither is quite suitable to perform heavy analytical workloads. There is a need to analyze data...
by Colin Charles | Aug 18, 2017 | MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Live
Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. Has a week passed already? Welcome back to the second column. A lot of time has been spent neck deep in getting speakers...
by Dave Avery | Jul 31, 2017 | MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Services, Percona Software
Upstream platform vendors have announced the general end of life (EOL) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5) and its derivatives, as well as Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. With this announcement comes some implications to support for Percona software running on these operating...
by Alexey Zhebel | Jul 26, 2017 | MongoDB, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MongoDB 3.2.15-3.5 on July 26, 2017. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. Percona Server for MongoDB is an enhanced, open-source, fully compatible, highly...
by Alexey Zhebel | Jul 17, 2017 | MongoDB, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MongoDB 3.2.14-3.4 on July 17, 2017. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. Percona Server for MongoDB is an enhanced, open-source, fully compatible, highly...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jul 12, 2017 | Benchmarks, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In this blog post, I will run a gh-ost benchmark against the performance of pt-online-schema-change. When gh-ost came out, I was very excited. As MySQL ROW replication became commonplace, you could use it to track changes instead of triggers. This practice is cleaner...
