by Dmitriy Kostiuk | Sep 20, 2019 | MySQL, Percona Software
We are glad to announce the 1.2.0 release of the Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster. The Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster automates the lifecycle and provides a consistent Percona XtraDB Cluster instance. The Operator can be...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Nov 29, 2016 | MySQL
Percona announces the GA release of Percona XtraBackup 2.4.5 on November 29th, 2016. You can download it from our download site and from apt and yum repositories. Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for companies...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Aug 19, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Server 5.5.51-38.1 on August 19, 2016. Based on MySQL 5.5.51, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.51-38.1 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. Percona Server is open-source and free. You can...
by Peter Zaitsev | Oct 17, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Software
In many write-intensive workloads Innodb/XtraDB storage engines you may see hidden and dangerous “debt” being accumulated – unpurged transaction “history” which if not kept in check over time will cause serve performance regression or...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Oct 6, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.2.5 on October 2, 2014. Downloads are available from our download site here and Percona Software Repositories. Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | May 7, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.1.0-rc1 on May 7, 2013. Downloads are available from our download site here. For this RC release, we will not be making APT and YUM repositories available, just base deb and RPM packages This is an...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | May 6, 2013 | MySQL
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.0.7 for MySQL on May 6, 2013. Downloads are available from our download site here and Percona Software Repositories. Percona XtraBackup is the world’s only open-source, free MySQL hot backup...
by Fred Linhoss | Feb 16, 2011 | MySQL, Percona Software
It’s finally here! Percona Server Percona Server 5.5.8-20.0 is now available for download. This is a beta release of Percona’s enhancements to the MySQL 5.5.8 server. Here are some highlights: Performance and scalability improvements throughout the server...
by Fred Linhoss | Jan 11, 2011 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona Server version 5.1.54-12.5 is now available for download. It is now the current stable release version. Functionality Added or Changed Percona Server 5.1.54-12.5 is based on MySQL 5.1.54. New Features Added: None Other Changes: Added system variable...
by Fred Linhoss | Dec 29, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona Server version 5.1.53-12.4 is now available for download. It is now the current stable release version. Functionality Added or Changed  Percona Server 5.1.53-12.4 is based on MySQL 5.1.53.  New Features Added: Precompiled UDFs for Maatkit (FNV and...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Dec 21, 2010 | Benchmarks, Hardware and Storage, MySQL
This is to follow up on my previous post and show the results for MySQL 5.5.8 and Percona Server on the fastest hardware I have in our lab:Â a Cisco UCS C250 server with 384GB of RAM, powered by a Virident tachIOn 400GB SLC card. To see different I/O patterns, I used...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Dec 20, 2010 | Benchmarks, MySQL
As we can see, MySQL 5.5.8 comes with great improvements and scalability fixes. Adding up all the new features, you have a great release. However, there is one area I want to touch on in this post. At Percona, we consider it important not only to have the best...
by Fred Linhoss | Dec 16, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona Server version 5.1.53-11.7 is now available for download. The main purpose of this release is to update the current Percona stable release to the latest version of MySQL 5.1. Functionality Added or Changed  Percona Server 5.1.53-11.7 is now based on MySQL...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Dec 14, 2010 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
Just yesterday we released Percona Server 5.1.52-12.3 which includes HandlerSocket. This is third-party plugin, developed by Akira Higuci, DeNA Co., Ltd and explained in Yoshinori Matsunobu’s blog post. What is so special about it: It provides NOSQL-like...
by Fred Linhoss | Dec 13, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona Server version 5.1.52-12.3 is now available for download. The main purpose of this release is to update the current Percona release candidate to the latest version of MySQL 5.1. The release also includes the HandlerSocket plugin, which provides NoSQL features...
by Fred Linhoss | Dec 13, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona XtraBackup 1.5-Beta is now available for download. This release adds additional functionality to Percona XtraBackup 1.4, the current general availability version of XtraBackup. This is a beta release. Functionality Added or Changed Support for MySQL 5.5...
by Peter Zaitsev | Dec 9, 2010 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
Understanding how well your tables and indexes fit to buffer pool are often very helpful to understand why some queries are IO bound and others not – it may be because the tables and indexes they are accessing are not in cache, for example being washed away by...
by Peter Zaitsev | Dec 9, 2010 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
Innodb/XtraDB tables do benefit from being reorganized often. You can get data physically laid out in primary key order as well as get a better feel for the primary key and index pages, and so use less space, it’s just that MySQL OPTIMIZE TABLE might not be the...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Nov 29, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Events
Erin and Mike, organizers of SF Meetup generously invited me to talk on coming SF Meetup on Dec-14 about new features in InnoDB in MySQL 5.1 and 5.5 and, what is pay attention to, when you upgrade from MySQL 5.0. Although I personally mostly in 5.1->5.5 upgrade area,...
by Fred Linhoss | Nov 23, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona Server version 5.1.52-rel11.6 is now available for download. The main purpose of this release is to update the current Percona stable release to the latest version of MySQL 5.1. Functionality Added or Changed  Percona Server 5.1.52-rel11.6 is now based on...
