Installing Percona MyRocks¶

It is recommended to install Percona software from official repositories:

1. Configure Percona repositories as described in Percona Software Repositories Documentation.

2. Install Percona MyRocks using the corresponding package manager:

   • For Debian or Ubuntu:

     $ sudo apt-get install percona-server-rocksdb
     

   • For RHEL or CentOS:

     $ sudo yum install percona-server-rocksdb
     

After you install the Percona MyRocks package, you should see the following output:

* This release of |Percona Server| is distributed with RocksDB storage engine.
* Run the following script to enable the RocksDB storage engine in Percona Server:

$ ps-admin --enable-rocksdb -u <mysql_admin_user> -p[mysql_admin_pass] [-S <socket>] [-h <host> -P <port>]

Run the ps-admin script as system root user or with sudo and provide the MySQL root user credentials to properly enable the RocksDB (MyRocks) storage engine:

$ sudo ps-admin --enable-rocksdb -u root -pPassw0rd

Checking if RocksDB plugin is available for installation ...
INFO: ha_rocksdb.so library for RocksDB found at /usr/lib64/mysql/plugin/ha_rocksdb.so.

Checking RocksDB engine plugin status...
INFO: RocksDB engine plugin is not installed.

Installing RocksDB engine...
INFO: Successfully installed RocksDB engine plugin.

If the script returns no errors, Percona MyRocks should be successfully enabled on the server. You can verify it as follows:

mysql> SHOW ENGINES;
+---------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+
| Engine  | Support | Comment                                                                    | Transactions | XA   | Savepoints |
+---------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+
| ROCKSDB | YES     | RocksDB storage engine                                                     | YES          | YES  | YES        |
...
| InnoDB  | DEFAULT | Percona-XtraDB, Supports transactions, row-level locking, and foreign keys | YES          | YES  | YES        |
+---------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+
10 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Note that the RocksDB engine is not set to be default, new tables will still be created using the InnoDB (XtraDB) storage engine. To make RocksDB storage engine default, set default-storage-engine=rocksdb in the [mysqld] section of my.cnf and restart Percona Server for MySQL.

Alternatively, you can add ENGINE=RocksDB after the CREATE TABLE statement for every table that you create.

Removing Percona MyRocks¶

It will not be possible to access tables created using the RocksDB engine with another storage engine after you remove Percona MyRocks. If you need this data, alter the tables to another storage engine. For example, to alter the City table to InnoDB, run the following:

mysql> ALTER TABLE City ENGINE=InnoDB;

To disable and uninstall the RocksDB engine plugins, use the ps-admin script as follows:

$ sudo ps-admin --disable-rocksdb -u root -pPassw0rd

Checking RocksDB engine plugin status...
INFO: RocksDB engine plugin is installed.

Uninstalling RocksDB engine plugin...
INFO: Successfully uninstalled RocksDB engine plugin.

After the engine plugins have been uninstalled, remove the Percona MyRocks package:

• For Debian or Ubuntu:

  $ sudo apt-get remove percona-server-rocksdb-8.0
  

• For RHEL or CentOS:

  $ sudo yum remove percona-server-rocksdb-80.x86_64
  

Finally, remove all the MyRocks Server Variables from the configuration file (my.cnf) and restart Percona Server for MySQL.