Dear Community, Percona Server version 5.1.47-rel11.0 is available for download now. The changes in this release include: New features Percona Server is now based on MySQL 5.1.47, and XtraDB is now based on InnoDB plugin 1.0.8. XtraDB now uses the fast recovery code released in InnoDB Plugin version 1.0.8, instead of Percona’s earlier fast-recovery code. [...]
XtraDB storage engine release 1.0.6-9
January 13, 2010 By 9 Comments
Dear Community, As of today Release 9 of XtraDB storage engine is available. The release includes following new features: The release is base on 1.0.6 version of InnoDB plugin. MySQL 5.1.42 as a base release Separate purge thread and LRU dump is implemented (this feature was actually added in Release 8, but somehow it was [...]
Paul McCullagh answers your questions about PBXT
November 20, 2009 By 2 Comments
Following on from our earlier announcement, Paul McCullagh has responded with the answers to your questions – as well as a few I gathered from other Percona folks, and attendees of OpenSQL Camp. Thank you Paul! What’s the “ideal” use case for the PBXT engine, and how does it compare in performance?  When would I [...]
xtrabackup-0.9
August 20, 2009 By 4 Comments
Dear Community, The release 0.9 of the opensource backup tool for InnoDB and XtraDB is available for download. Changelog: tar4ibd could not treat over 8GB file, now max 64GB prepare-speed-hack is added Fixed bugs: Bug #386179: “InnoDB: Error: space id in fsp header 143088, but in the page header 0″ Bug #394374: “Can’t compile with [...]
xtrabackup-0.3, binaries and stream backup
March 13, 2009 By 11 Comments
We are coming with next version of xtrabackup – online backup solution for MySQL 5.0 / 5.1 and InnoDB standard version, plugin modification and XtraDB. We still consider it as alpha version, though it shows perfect stable results in our tests. Let me address two often asked question about xtrabackup: 1) Does it work only [...]
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. [...]
XtraDB benchmarks – 1.5X gain in IO-bound load
December 18, 2008 By 30 Comments
I guess it is first reaction on new storage engine – show me benefits. So there is benchmark I made on one our servers. It is Dell 2950 with 8CPU cores and RAID10 on 6 disks with BBU, and 32GB RAM on board with CentOS 5.2 as OS. This is quite typical server we recommend [...]
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 [...]
MySQL 5.0, 5.1 and Innodb Plugin CPU Efficiency
December 3, 2008 By 15 Comments
We’ve recently done benchmarks comparing different MySQL versions in terms of their CPU efficiently in TPC-C like Workload. We did it couple of weeks ago so MySQL 5.0.67, MySQL 5.1.29 and Innodb Plugin 1.0.1 were used which are not very recent, though we do not think results will differ a lot with today versions.
New patches, new builds
September 5, 2008 By 24 Comments
We made new patches, improved previous and want to announce new builds for 5.0.62, 5.0.67 and 5.1.26 versions. One of biggest changes we separated releases of 5.0 into two branches. First, just “-percona” release is more stable and contains only stable and proven on many installation patches. Second is “-percona-highperf” release, which contains experimental patches [...]
