by Sri Sakthivel | Oct 6, 2020 | MySQL, Open Source, Percona Software
Schema changes are the big challenges in Galera replication. So, it is recommended to understand the schema changes operation for everyone who uses the Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXB)/Galera clusters. In this blog, I am going to explain the operation and impact of the...
by Sveta Smirnova | Jul 28, 2020 | MySQL, Percona Software
I got this question on the “How to Avoid Pitfalls in Schema Upgrade with Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC)” webinar and wanted to answer it in a separate post. Will RSU have an effect on GTID consistency if replication PXC cluster to another cluster? Answer for...
by Dmitriy Kostiuk | Jul 23, 2020 | Cloud, MongoDB, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
The content of this article is outdated. See the official Percona Operator for MongoDB and Percona XtraDB Cluster Operator documentation for more up to date information. Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) provides an excellent solution to monitor both Percona...
by Rick Golba | Jul 21, 2020 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
On July 21, 2020, Percona delivered an updated version of our Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) focused on easing deployment and operations management of a clustered MySQL environment. Included in the Percona Distribution for MySQL, our...
by Daniel Guzmán Burgos | Jul 9, 2020 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
You got yourself a Kubernetes cluster and are now testing our Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster. Everything is working great and you decided that you want to increase the number of Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) pods from the default 3, to let’s...
by Daniel Guzmán Burgos | Jul 3, 2020 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software, ProxySQL
The Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster(PXC) comes with ProxySQL as part of the deal. And to be honest, the behavior of ProxySQL is pretty much the same as in a regular non-k8s deployment of it. So why bother to write a blog about it? Because what...
by Marco Tusa | Jul 1, 2020 | MySQL, Percona Software, ProxySQL
In real life, there are frequent cases where getting a running application to work correctly is strongly dependent on consistent write/read operations. This is no issue when using a single data node as a provider, but it becomes more concerning and challenging when...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Jun 8, 2020 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software
Unless you are using Amazon Aurora or RDS, setting up clustering software still can be complicated and that’s why we want to offer options to simplify database cluster management in Amazon AWS. This time I will be looking at Percona Kubernetes Operators, for both...
by Marco Tusa | May 18, 2020 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona has enforced stronger security in Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) 8, but this requires some attention during the rollout of the new server version, so let see the why and what. In PXC there are two different kinds of traffic: client-server exchange (ie:...
by Vadim Tkachenko | May 15, 2020 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0 comes with an upgraded Galera 4.0 library, which provides a new feature – streaming replication. Let’s review what it is and when it might be helpful. Previous versions of Percona XtraDB Cluster with Galera 3.x had a limitation...
by Tibor Korocz | May 13, 2020 | MySQL, Percona Software
I was testing the latest Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0 (PXC) release which has the Galera 4 plugin, and I would like to share my experiences and thoughts on the Streaming Replication feature so far. What Is Streaming Replication, in One Sentence? In Galera 4, the large...
by Agustín | May 6, 2020 | MySQL, Percona Software
As Alkin and Ramesh have shown us in their Testing Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0 with DBdeployer post, it is now possible to easily deploy an environment to test the features provided by the brand new release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0. We have also worked on creating...
by Alkin Tezuysal | May 4, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
In the light of support for Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC), the DBdeployer anniversary, and the newly released Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0, I’m happy to announce that Giuseppe Maxia has recently updated DBdeployer to support Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0. We at Percona,...
by Rick Golba | Apr 29, 2020 | MySQL, Percona Announcements, Percona Software
April 29, 2020 – Percona is pleased to announce the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0. This release, based on Percona Server for MySQL 8.0 and Galera 4, brings together the best features of these and other products to deliver an open-source high availability MySQL...
by Tibor Korocz | Apr 28, 2020 | MySQL, Percona Software, ProxySQL
In this blog post I would like to give an overview of the most common failover scenarios and operations when using MySQL Group Replication 8.0.19 (aka GR) and Percona XtraDB Cluster 8 (PXC) (which is based on Galera), and explain how each technology handles each...
by Tibor Korocz | Apr 21, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
by Borys Belinsky | Mar 19, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Percona is happy to announce the experimental release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0. This is a major step for tuning Percona XtraDB Cluster to be more cloud- and user-friendly. This is the second experimental release that combines the updated and feature-rich Galera...
by Borys Belinsky | Feb 11, 2020 | MySQL, Percona Software, ProxySQL
ProxySQL 1.4.16, released by ProxySQL, is now available for download in the Percona Repository along with an updated version of Percona’s proxysql-admin tool. ProxySQL is a high-performance proxy, currently for MySQL, and database servers in the MySQL ecosystem...
by Borys Belinsky | Oct 23, 2019 | MySQL, Percona Software, ProxySQL
ProxySQL 2.0.7, released by MariaDB). It acts as an intermediary for client requests seeking resources from the database. René Cannaò created ProxySQL for DBAs as a means of solving complex replication topology issues. This release includesPSQLADM-204: Add support of...
by Michael Patrick | Oct 7, 2019 | Percona Software
One thing that comes up often from working with a variety of clients at Percona is “How can I achieve a Disaster Recovery (DR) solution with Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC)?” Unfortunately, decisions are sometimes made with far-reaching consequences by...
