… sponsor the 4th Drizzle Day, this year being held on the 13th April, the day after the Percona Live MySQL Conference and… America Parkway) What: Drizzle Day is a day to learn about Drizzle, how to use Drizzle, migrating to Drizzle and contributing to Drizzle. If you… database), testing and performance – then Drizzle day is for you! Price: Admission is free, however the Drizzle team would love you to…
Post: Percona welcomes Stewart Smith
May 16, 2011 By 8 Comments
… extended introduction for MySQL Community, but just in case: Stewart has a long history with both the MySQL and Drizzle code bases. He’s been one of the core Drizzle developers since the start of the project (working on Drizzle for Sun and then Rackspace), he maintains HailDB and previously worked for MySQL (and then Sun) on MySQL Cluster (NDB…
Post: Percona Server and XtraBackup weekly news, April 4th
April 4, 2011 By 1 Comment
… as MySQL 5.5, MariaDB, Drizzle, etc. The short answer is that we’re very happy with Oracle’s GPL’ed MySQL releases… news, There was a lot of merge activity with the Drizzle team, who as you are probably aware, are making XtraBackup support Drizzle databases. We committed code that makes xtrabackup copy the LRU…
Post: MySQL Limitations Part 2: The Binary Log
October 23, 2010 By 11 Comments
… full fix might require significant architectural changes to MySQL. This will be hard. Maybe Drizzle is going in a good direction — time… Drizzle has gotten rid of the .frm files, hooray), and c) privileges and other changes to the non-InnoDB data in MySQL… transaction logs, so there’s even precedent for this among MySQL storage engines. And there is Galera’s multi-master synchronization…
Comment: The Doom of Multiple Storage Engines
May 10, 2010 By 22 Comments
… point when he refers to: “much of the design of MySQL based around the limitations, and features, of MyISAM”. It is… example, not wanting to destabilize the existing MyISAM implementation). What Drizzle has recognizing, for example, with its latest changes to the… is worth it, because this is definitely something that sets MySQL/Drizzle apart from other SQL implementations.
Post: Percona Server and XtraBackup Weekly News, April 11th
April 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
…, as we spent a lot of time preparing for the MySQL Conference and Collaborate, and Vadim was on vacation. One interesting… features and improvements very soon, and we worked more on Drizzle support for XtraBackup, exchanging lots of merge proposals with the…
Post: Percona Server and XtraBackup weekly news, March 28th
March 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
… keep you posted. In XtraBackup news, Stewart Smith of the Drizzle project contributed a number of improvements to XtraBackup so that it can be a first-class backup tool for Drizzle. Thanks, Stewart! Continuing with the theme of community contributions, are…
Post: 7 Reasons why MySQL Quality will never be the same
December 10, 2008 By 15 Comments
… with MySQL 4.1 if it would be actively maintained now. And hey this is exactly one if the reasons behind Drizzle… from Innodb included default MySQL. Why is not this part of stock MySQL 5.1 ? I guess because MySQL 5.1 release was… general “quality” or “being free from bugs” to run MySQL in production. MySQL as it is now works for a lot of…
Post: Percona and the MariaDB Foundation
December 19, 2012 By 3 Comments
… Supports MariaDB. We support all variants and flavors of “MySQL” – Oracle MySQL, MariaDB, Drizzle, Percona Server, Amazon RDS – helping our customers to be… I wanted to state Percona’s relation with the MySQL Community and the MySQL Ecosystem. We’re not here to pick sides… to make our customers successful running MySQL and, along the way, to contribute to the MySQL ecosystem with our knowledge, software and…
Post: Guidance for MySQL Optimizer Developers
September 20, 2009 By 4 Comments
… spend large portion of my life working on MySQL Performance Optimization and so MySQL Optimizer is quite important to me. For probably… which I think can help to make optimizer in MySQL, MariaDB or Drizzle better. Make it Plugable Every Major optimizer change causes… to stick to old optimizer behavior with new MySQL Version. Make Cost Model Adjustable MySQL Optimizer looks at query plan in terms…
