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 software that performs non-blocking backups for InnoDB and XtraDB databases. This release is the current GA (Generally Available) [...]
Percona Server 5.5.30 with TokuDB for MySQL
April 24, 2013 By 26 Comments
I was excited to see that TokuDB for MySQL from Tokutek is now open source. I believe this is a great technology and it was a significant restriction on the adoption when it was distributed only in a binary format with a proprietary license. So I went and built Percona Server 5.5.30 with TokuDB’s storage [...]
Percona Toolkit for MySQL Webinar Followup Questions
April 5, 2013 By 1 Comment
I didn’t have time to answer all of the questions during Wednesday’s MySQL webinar, “5 Percona Toolkit Tools That Could Save Your Day,” but as promised, here are all of the questions and my answers. (A recording is available here.) Q: One of the links to download the Percona Toolkit for MySQL (percona.com/get/percona-toolkit.tgz) doesn’t work! A: [...]
Percona Server on the Nexus 7: Your own MySQL Database Server on an Android Tablet
February 28, 2013 By 11 Comments
Following Roel’s post, Percona Server on the Raspberry Pi: Your own MySQL Database Server , I thought what other crazy gadget can I run Percona Server on? And having an Asus Nexus 7 Android tablet I decided to give it a try. Anything below contains a risk that you break your tablet if you do [...]
Percona Playback 0.3 development release
July 10, 2012 By 15 Comments
I’m glad to announce the third Percona Playback release – another alpha release of a new software package designed to replay database server load. The first two versions were released in April, just in time for my talk at the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo: Replaying Database Load with Percona Playback. This is still [...]
Making the impossible: 3 nodes intercontinental replication
January 11, 2012 By 29 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 [...]
Percona Server 5.5.15 + Galera 21.1-beta2
October 3, 2011 By 18 Comments
Codership team published beta2 of MySQL 5.5.15 with Galera replication https://launchpad.net/codership-mysql and we made port to Percona Server: source code: lp:~percona-dev/percona-server/percona-server-galera-5.5.15 binaries for RedHat/CentOS 6: http://www.percona.com/downloads/TESTING/Galera/Percona-XtraDB-Galera-5.5.15.tar.gz What difference between Percona Server+Galera and MySQL 5.5.15 ? First of course, Percona Server+Galera is based on our XtraDB engine. Second, we provide wsrep_sst_xtrabackup script, which allows to use [...]
Percona Server 5.1.57 with Galera 0.8.1
July 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Codership team announced availability of MySQL/Galera 0.8.1, which is minor release, but actually it has bunch of improvements that makes Galera replication more user friendly (there are many bugs fixed, reported by me personally, what annoyed me a lot). As part of my evaluation activity I ported MySQL/Galera 0.8.1 to Percona Server/Galera 0.8.1 and you [...]
MySQL 5.5.8 – in search of stability
January 3, 2011 By 11 Comments
A couple of days ago, Dimitri published a blog post, Analyzing Percona’s TPCC-like Workload on MySQL 5.5, which was a response to my post, MySQL 5.5.8 and Percona Server: being adaptive. I will refer to Dimitri’s article as article [1]. As always, Dimitri has provided a very detailed and thoughtful article, and I strongly recommend reading if [...]
FlashCache: more benchmarks
May 18, 2010 By 15 Comments
Previously I covered simple case with FlashCache, when data fits into cache partitions, now I am trying to test when data is bigger than cache. But before test setup let me address some concern (which I also had). Intel X25-M has a write cache which is not battery backuped, so there is suspect you may [...]
