At Percona we offer a number of services. One of them, Custom MySQL Server Development, is commonly the most misunderstood and undervalued. There are a lot of ways Percona custom MySQL server development can help your business be more successful with MySQL. Here are some ways: Bugs – There are Bugs in MySQL, Percona Server, [...]
Percona Server wins ‘Top Innovator in SQL Technologies’ award!
January 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Percona Server has won a 2013 DeveloperWeek Best of Tech award, being named Top Innovator in the SQL Technologies category! We’re proud to accept this award, which is determined by a combination of peer voting and review from an independent panel of judges. Thank you to everyone who voted for Percona Server! From our press [...]
MySQL Wish for 2013 – Better Memory Accounting
December 31, 2012 By 6 Comments
With Performance Schema improvements in MySQL 5.6 I think we’re in the good shape with insight on what is causing performance bottlenecks as well as where CPU resources are spent. (Performance Schema does not accounts CPU usage directly but it is something which can be relatively easily derived from wait and stage information). Where we’re [...]
MySQL performance on EC2/EBS versus RDS
August 4, 2011 By 11 Comments
A while ago I started a series of posts showing benchmark results on Amazon EC2 servers with RAID’ed EBS volumes and MySQL, versus RDS machines. For reasons that won’t add anything to this discussion, I got sidetracked, and then time passed, and I no longer think it’s a good idea to publish those blog posts [...]
Death match! EBS versus SSD price, performance, and QoS
February 21, 2011 By 55 Comments
Is it a good idea to deploy your database into the cloud? It depends. I have seen it work well many times, and cause trouble at other times. In this blog post I want to examine cloud-based I/O. I/O matters a lot when a) the database’s working set is bigger than the server’s memory, or [...]
Data Corruption, DRBD and story of bug
November 29, 2010 By 6 Comments
Working with customer, I faced pretty nasty bug, which is actually not rare situation , but in this particular there are some lessons I would like to share. The case is pretty much described in bug 55981, or in pastebin. Everything below is related to InnoDB-plugin/XtraDB, but not to regular InnoDB ( i.e in MySQL [...]
Implementing Parallel Replication in MySQL
November 8, 2010 By 3 Comments
Based on discussions with several clients, we are strongly considering implementing a limited form of parallel replication. Single-threaded replication is one of the most severe limitations in the MySQL server. We have a brief outline of the ideas at this wiki blueprint. So far, the “binlog order” idea is the only one that is workable. [...]
Upgrading MySQL
January 5, 2010 By 23 Comments
Upgrading MySQL Server is a very interesting task as you can approach it with so much different “depth”. For some this is 15 minutes job for others it is many month projects. Why is that ? Performing MySQL upgrade two things should normally worry you. It is Regressions – functionality regressions when what you’ve been [...]
Three key things to know about moving MySQL into the cloud.
July 13, 2009 By 11 Comments
The question “what problems will I have when migrating to the cloud” gets asked often enough. If by cloud you mean Amazon EC2, then from a technical perspective there isn’t much that changes. The biggest thing that changes is just how you pay your bill. Having said that, there’s still a few potential gotchas: There [...]
When would you use SAN with MySQL ?
March 9, 2009 By 18 Comments
One question which comes up very often is when one should use SAN with MySQL, which is especially popular among people got used to Oracle or other Enterprise database systems which are quite commonly deployed on SAN. My question in such case is always what exactly are you trying to get by using SAN ?
