MariaDB 5.3 has reached the release candidate milestone, and the 5.3 version promises a lot of new features and optimization (i.e in optimizer http://kb.askmonty.org/en/what-is-mariadb-53#query-optimizer). No surprise I wanted to check how all improvements affect general performance. So I why don’t we run old good sysbench benchmark.
About Vadim Tkachenko
Vadim leads Percona's development group, which produces the Percona Server and Percona XtraBackup. He is an expert in solid-state storage, and has helped many hardware and software providers succeed in the MySQL market.
My talks on PL MySQL Conference (+free book inside)
February 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
On coming PL MySQL conference 2012 I will give one tutorial: Percona XtraBackup: install, usage, tricks. This tutorial I will do in joint with Alexey Kopytov, the lead developer of Percona XtraBackup. Our intent is to provide the comprehensive overview of the XtraBackup architecture and features, and we will touch future roadmap. This is all [...]
Percona XtraDB Cluster Feature 2: Multi-Master replication
January 19, 2012 By 10 Comments
This is about the second great feature – Multi-Master replication, what you get with Percona XtraDB Cluster. It is recommended you get familiar with general architecture of the cluster, described on the previous post. By Multi-Master I mean the ability to write to any node in your cluster and do not worry that eventually you [...]
Benchmarks of new innodb_flush_neighbor_pages
January 17, 2012 By 6 Comments
In our recent release of Percona Server 5.5.19 we introduced new value for innodb_flush_neighbor_pages=cont. This way we are trying to deal with the problem of InnoDB flushing.
Percona XtraDB Cluster Feature 1: High Availability
January 17, 2012 By 13 Comments
There and in coming posts I am going to cover main features of Percona XtraDB Cluster. The first feature is High Availability. But before jumping to HA, let’s review general architecture of the Percona XtraDB Cluster.
Create 3 nodes XtraDB Cluster in 3 minutes
January 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I understand that the new technology can be scaring and this makes entry barriers to try and get familiar with it. That’s why I created simple set of scripts which setup N nodes cluster on running EC2 instances. The script assumes that you have running N EC2 instances (in the same availability zone) running RedHat [...]
Making the impossible: 3 nodes intercontinental replication
January 11, 2012 By 21 Comments
In this post I want to show new possibilities which open with Percona XtraDB Cluster. We will create 3 nodes Cluster with nodes on different continents (Europe, USA, Japan) and each node will accept write queries. Well, you theoretically could create 3 node traditional MySQL ring replication, but this is not what you want to [...]
Announcement of Percona XtraDB Cluster (alpha release)
January 9, 2012 By 30 Comments
I am happy to announce the availability of alpha release of our new product Percona XtraDB Cluster. Percona XtraDB Cluster is High Availability and Scalability solution for MySQL Users and based on Percona Server 5.5.17 Percona XtraDB Cluster provides: Synchronous replication. Transaction either commited on all nodes or none. Multi-master replication. You can write to [...]
Percona Server documentation in PDF is available
December 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
This is to announce that we released the PDF version of Percona Server documentation (5.1 and 5.5 releases), you can download it from our web site http://www.percona.com/software/percona-server/ (it will require registration).
Announcing PAM authentication plugin for MySQL (early access release)
December 5, 2011 By 3 Comments
We are pleased to announce availability of an early access version of Percona’s PAM Authentication plugin for MySQL. This plugin supports MySQL-5.5.x, Percona Server 5.5.x and MariaDB 5.2.x. The PAM Authentication plugin can be used for: MySQL authentication using operating system users (pam_unix) MySQL authentication from LDAP server (pam_ldap) authentication against RSA SecurID server any [...]
