June 20, 2013

Post: Call for papers: Percona Live London

MySQL, Percona Server, MariaDB, Drizzle or (fill in the blank) in production? Are you managing multiple environments? Are you working with MySQL… for Europe’s growing MySQL community of developers, business managers, technology evangelists, DBAs and entrepreneurs. Download the prospectus and take …

Post: Percona XtraBackup 2.1.3 for MySQL available for download

…Percona XtraBackup 2.1.3 for MySQL on May 22, 2013. Downloads are available from our download site here and Percona Software … Percona Server, MySQL, MariaDB, and Drizzle. It performs streaming, compressed, and incremental MySQL backups. Percona’s enterprise-grade commercial MySQL Support contracts …

Post: MySQL Configuration Wizard Updated

… them to yourself. The new release also adds features like downloading the configuration files so you don’t have to copy… prevent common problems MySQL users run into because of too-permissive MySQL behaviors. These are the kinds of things that Drizzle fixes — and should be fixed by default in MySQL — but never…

Post: Percona welcomes Drizzle 7.1

…, the Drizzle protocol plugin, authentication from a file, MySQL UNIX socket protocol, javascript plugin, authentication via tables (similar to MySQL), RabbitMQ, …package is available from the Drizzle Launchpad download area. Please see the Drizzle manual on how to install Drizzle 7.1.33-stable …

Post: Percona Server and XtraBackup weekly news, March 28th

… the download stats. It appears that Percona Server has been downloaded well over 100,000 times, and Percona XtraBackup has been downloaded over 200,000 times. But when we changed the script to separate out the downloads for our 5… keep you posted. In XtraBackup news, Stewart Smith of the Drizzle project contributed a number of improvements to XtraBackup so that…

Post: Percona Server and XtraBackup Weekly News, April 11th

… spent a lot of time preparing for the MySQL Conference and Collaborate, and Vadim was on vacation…we were massively under-counting the number of downloads for Percona Server, due to failing to …improvements very soon, and we worked more on Drizzle support for XtraBackup, exchanging lots of merge …

Post: 7 Reasons why MySQL Quality will never be the same

… with MySQL 4.1 if it would be actively maintained now. And hey this is exactly one if the reasons behind DrizzleMySQL QA policy heavily relied on community and I think it is still the case. This means MySQL latest code was instantly downloaded and tested by thousands of users which would find bugs quickly. With MySQL Enterprise it…

Post: Percona Server 5.1.57 with Galera 0.8.1

Codership team announced availability of MySQL/Galera 0.8.1, which is minor release, but actually … a lot). As part of my evaluation activity I ported MySQL/Galera 0.8.1 to Percona Server/Galera 0.8… Drizzle developers), that is why I also made binaries for RHEL 6.1 / Oracle Linux 6.1 http://www.percona.com/downloads

Comment: MongoDB Approach to Availability

… well and good, but from a tiny IT shop perspective: MySQL sold out to Oracle, indirectly, possibly unknowingly. But it was… Mongo is to simply get the MySQL layer out of the way. Incorporate the ideas of Drizzle (speed, speed, and little else… a sensible, open system that can be gotten in one download and upgraded as pieces. Make this new Percona Beast the…