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Percona Server for MySQL® is a free, fully compatible, enhanced, open source drop-in replacement for MySQL that provides superior performance, scalability and instrumentation. With over 3,000,000 downloads, Percona Server’s self-tuning algorithms and support for extremely high-performance hardware delivers excellent performance and reliability.

15 Apr 2021

Online DDL with Group Replication In Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.22 (and MySQL 8.0.23)

By Marco Tusa Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software , , , , , 7 Comments
Online DDL with Group Replication MySQL

While I was working on my grFailOver POC, I have also done some additional parallel testing. One of them was to see how online DDL is executed inside a Group Replication cluster.
The online DDL feature provides support for instant and in-place table alterations and concurrent DML. Checking the Group Replication (GR) official documentation, I […]

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06 Apr 2021

Which Version of MySQL Should I Use for MyRocks?

By Mike Benshoof MySQL, Percona Software, Storage Engine , , , , 0 Comments
Version of MySQL Should I Use for MyRocks

As database footprints continue to explode, many companies are looking for ways to deal with such rapid growth.  One approach is to refactor traditional relational databases to fit into a NoSQL engine, where horizontal scalability is easier.  However, in many cases, this is in no way a trivial undertaking.
Another approach that has been gaining […]

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01 Apr 2021

Working to Validate MyRocks in the Enterprise with Dropbox

By Mike Benshoof MySQL, Percona Software, Storage Engine , , , , 5 Comments
MyRocks in the Enterprise with Dropbox

Percona Technical Account Managers get the privilege of working with some of our largest enterprise clients day in and day out.  As such, we get to really focus on how to best leverage our technology to generate measurable benefits for our users.  While it is fun to “nerd out” and always strive to use […]

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10 Mar 2021

How to Build Percona Server for MySQL From Sources

By Evgeniy Patlan Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software , , , , 2 Comments
Build Percona Server for MySQL From Sources

Lately, the number of questions about how to build Percona software has been increased. More and more people try to add their own patches, add some modifications, and build software by themselves. But this raises the question of how to do this in the same way as Percona does, as sometimes the compiler flag […]

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22 Dec 2020

Redesign of –lock-ddl-per-table in Percona XtraBackup

By Marcelo Altmann Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software , , , 1 Comment
Redesign of -lock-ddl-per-table in Percona XtraBackup

MySQL 5.7, alongside other many improvements, brought bulk load for creating an index (WL#7277 to be specific), which made ADD INDEX operations much faster by disabling redo logging and making the changes directly to tablespace files. This change requires extra care for backup tools. To block DDL statements on an instance, Percona Server for […]

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