by Vadim Tkachenko | Jul 22, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
We designed Percona Cloud Tools (both hardware and software setup) to handle a very high-intensive MySQL write workload. For example, we already observe inserts of 1bln+ datapoints per day. So I wanted to share what kind of hardware we use to achieve this result. Let...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Jul 1, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.19-67.0 on July 1, 2014. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories. Based on MySQL 5.6.19, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.6.19-67.0...
by Laurynas Biveinis | May 22, 2014 | Insight for Developers, MySQL, Percona Software
The recent WebScaleSQL announcement has made quite a splash in the MySQL community over the last few weeks, and with a good reason. The collaboration between the major MySQL-at-scale users to develop a single code branch that addresses the needs of, well, web scale,...
by Peter Boros | May 15, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Some of us Perconians are at OpenStack summit this week in Atlanta. Matt Griffin, our director of product management, tweeted about the turbo-hipster CI talk about their experience of ALTER TABLEs running faster on Percona Server. Oracle’s Morgan Tocker then...
by Vadim Tkachenko | May 14, 2014 | Benchmarks, MySQL, Percona Software
We just released, as an open source release, our new percona-agent the agent to work with Percona Cloud Tools. This agent is written in Go. There will be more posts about percona-agent, but in the meantime I want to dedicate this one to Go, Go with MySQL and some...
by Jericho Rivera | May 13, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Software
There are a couple of posts about setting up Percona XtraDB Cluster on Vagrant and Percona Server on MySQL Sandbox – those are two of the top tools used by the Percona Support team for testing and bug processing among other things. In this post, however, I will...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Mar 18, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Software
Two weeks ago we released
by Alexey Kopytov | Mar 11, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
TL;DR version: The backup locks feature introduced in Percona Server 5.6.16-64.0 is a lightweight alternative to FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK and can be used to take both physical and logical backups with less downtime on busy servers. To employ the feature with...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Feb 4, 2014 | Benchmarks, MySQL, Percona Software
We just published results with improvements in Thread Pool in Percona Server: Percona Server: Thread Pool Improvements for Transactional Workloads Percona Server: Improve Scalability with Thread Pool What I am happy to see is that Percona Server is able to handle a...
by Alexey Stroganov | Jan 29, 2014 | Benchmarks, MySQL, Percona Software
In a previous thread pool post, I mentioned that in Percona Server we used an open source implementation of MariaDB’s thread pool, and enhanced/improved it further. Below I would like to describe some of these improvements for transactional workloads. When we...
by David Hildebrandt | Mar 15, 2013 | MySQL
Percona will be in Chicago and London the week of April 8th delivering two 2-day MySQL workshops. For our MPB readers, we are offering a 15% discount. Just use MPB15A when purchasing your tickets to one or both MySQL workshops. Scaling and Optimization for MySQL on...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Mar 7, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.30-30.1 on March 7, 2013 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.30, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.30-30.1 is now the...
by Roel Van de Paar | Feb 25, 2013 | Hardware and Storage, Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL
There are many reasons for wanting a small MySQL database server: You’re a uni student who wants to learn the SQL language better and needs a mini-testbox You’re a Windows user who wants to play around with Percona Server on Linux You’re a corporate...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jan 18, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona Server has won a 2013 DeveloperWeek Best of Tech award, being named Top Innovator in the SQL Technologies category! We’re proud to accept this award, which is determined by a combination of peer voting and review from an independent panel of judges....
