First time I heard about Galera on Percona Performance Conference 2009, Seppo Jaakola was presenting “Galera: Multi-Master Synchronous MySQL Replication Clusters”. It was impressed as I personally always wanted it for InnoDB, but we had it in plans at the bottom of the list, as this is very hard to implement properly. The idea by [...]
Onsite and Remote – getting best of both worlds
July 2, 2009 By 1 Comment
At Percona we provide services both Onsite – visiting the customers and Remote – logging in to their systems or communicating via email,phone,instant messaging. We believe both approaches have their benefits and drawbacks and mixing them right way allows you to get your problems solved most efficient way.
XtraDB storage engine release 1.0.3-5
April 28, 2009 By 8 Comments
Today we glad to announce release 1.0.3-5 of our XtraDB storage engine. Here is a list of enhancements in this release: move to MySQL 5.1.34 removed rw_lock patch, so we now use Google’s rw_locks fix crash after upgrade 5.1.31 -> 5.1.33 fix mysql-test Percona XtraDB 1.0.3-5 available in source and several binary packages. XtraDB is [...]
XtraDB storage engine release 1.0.3-4 codename Sakura
April 8, 2009 By 9 Comments
Today we glad to announce release 1.0.3-4 of our XtraDB storage engine. Here is a list of enhancements in this release: Move to MySQL 5.1.33 Move to InnoDB plugin 1.0.3 more reliable replication, innodb_overwrite_relay_log_info patch now included in the release fix assertions for UNIV_DEBUG new fix for rw_lock patch Percona XtraDB 1.0.3-4 (Sakura) available in [...]
XtraDB storage engine release 1.0.2-3 (Spring edition) codename Sapporo
March 2, 2009 By 10 Comments
Today we announce release 1.0.2-3 of our XtraDB storage engine. Here is a list of enhancements: Move to MySQL 5.1.31 Scalability fix — ability to use several rollback segments Increasing the number of rseg may be helpful for CPU scale of write-intentional workloads. See benchmark results. Scalability fix — replaced page_hash mutex to page_hash read-write [...]
XtraDB storage engine release 1.0.2-2 (New Year edition)
December 29, 2008 By 20 Comments
Today we announce release 1.0.2-2 of our XtraDB storage engine. Here is a list of enhancements: split-buffer_pool_mutex The patch splits global InnoDB buffer_pool mutex into several and eliminates waitings on flush IO and mutex when there is no enough free buffers. It helps if you have performance drops when data does not fit in memory. [...]
Announcing Percona XtraDB Storage Engine: a Drop-in Replacement for Standard InnoDB
December 16, 2008 By 25 Comments
Today we officially announce our new storage engine, “Percona XtraDB“, which is based on the InnoDB storage engine. It’s 100% backwards-compatible with standard InnoDB, so you can use it as a drop-in replacement in your current environment. It is designed to scale better on modern hardware, and includes a variety of other features useful in [...]
Development plans
September 8, 2008 By 5 Comments
We gathered together our ideas of MySQL improvements on this page http://www.percona.com/percona-lab/dev-plan.html and we are going to implement some of them. My favorite one is – make InnoDB files .ibd (one created with –innodb-file-per-table=1) movable from one server to another, however it is sort of challenging. Probably next one patch we want to integrate is [...]
Andrew Aksyonoff does Sphinx Talk in Moscow
April 3, 2008 By Leave a Comment
On his way to MySQL Users Conference Andrew will stop by in Moscow, Russia and give a talk about Sphinx current features, development plans, and deployment use cases. Interesting enough the meeting will take place at Moscow State University, Computer Science Faculty – my “Alma Mater” in the same building and even same room which [...]
Monty unviels Maria and starts Blogging
January 29, 2008 By 4 Comments
This weekend we’re hearing great news from Michael “Monty” Widenius – one of the Fathers of MySQL. Monty finally found a time to create his own blog with very descriptive name Monty Says. At the same time Monty finally announces Maria – the MyISAM successor storage engine he has been working for last few years. [...]
