So lets say you upgraded from MySQL 5.1 to Percona Server 5.5 and instead of expected performance improvement you see your performance being worse. What should you do ? First if you followed MySQL upgrade best practices such as testing your workload with pt-upgrade the chances of this happening are rather slim. But lets assume [...]
XtraDB: The Top 10 enhancements
August 13, 2009 By 5 Comments
Note: This post is part 2 of 4 on building our training workshop. Last week I talked about why you don’t want to shard. This week I’m following up with the top 10 enhancements that XtraDB has over the built-in InnoDB included in MySQL 5.0 and 5.1. Building this list was not really a scientific [...]
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 [...]
