At Percona we offer a number of services. One of them, Custom MySQL Server Development, is commonly the most misunderstood and undervalued. There are a lot of ways Percona custom MySQL server development can help your business be more successful with MySQL. Here are some ways: Bugs – There are Bugs in MySQL, Percona Server, [...]
Announcing Percona Server 5.1.65-14.0
September 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.1.65-14.0 on September 4th, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.1.65, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.1.65-14.0 is now the current stable release in the 5.1 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can [...]
Announcement of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.20 GA release
April 3, 2012 By 11 Comments
I am excited to announce the availability of the GA release of our new product Percona XtraDB Cluster. Percona XtraDB Cluster is a High Availability and Scalability solution for MySQL Users and is based on Percona Server 5.5.20. With this release we make clustering very easy and affordable for everyone. You can convert your existing [...]
Announcement of Percona XtraDB Cluster (alpha release)
January 9, 2012 By 30 Comments
I am happy to announce the availability of alpha release of our new product Percona XtraDB Cluster. Percona XtraDB Cluster is High Availability and Scalability solution for MySQL Users and based on Percona Server 5.5.17 Percona XtraDB Cluster provides: Synchronous replication. Transaction either commited on all nodes or none. Multi-master replication. You can write to [...]
What’s the recommended MySQL version?
August 15, 2011 By 24 Comments
I see this message on our forums, and I think it’s a great question: “Which version of Percona Server is currently recommended?” It’s really the same question as “Which version of MySQL is currently recommended?” I’ll respond here and then post a link in the forum as a reply. In my opinion, it’s important to [...]
What’s up with HandlerSocket?
March 28, 2011 By 43 Comments
I’ve presented at two different venues about HandlerSocket recently and the number one question that always arises is: Why hasn’t HandlerSocket become more popular than it is? Considering how fast and awesome HandlerSocket is, it’s not seeing as rapid adoption as some might expect. I theorize that there are five reasons for this:
Percona Server and XtraBackup weekly news, February 26th
February 27, 2011 By 5 Comments
Percona Server has a new logo:
Percona Server 5.1.49-rel12.0
September 15, 2010 By 6 Comments
Dear Community, Starting with this release, we introduce a new release model for Percona Server. From now on, we will have both Stable and Release Candidate releases. Release Candidates will introduce new features not yet available in Stable releases. Along with new features, our new 5.1.49-12.0 RC contains a couple of patches from the Facebook-MySQL [...]
Percona Server 5.1.49-rel11.3
September 10, 2010 By 1 Comment
Dear Community, Percona Server version 5.1.49-rel11.3 is now available for download. The changes in this release include: New features Percona Server 5.1.49-rel11.3 is based on MySQL 5.1.49. A new variable was introduced: innodb_use_sys_stats_table. If ON, the table’s statistics are stored statically in the internal table SYS_STATS. The table is populated with the ANALYZE TABLE command. [...]
Estimating Replication Capacity
July 20, 2010 By 4 Comments
It is easy for MySQL replication to become bottleneck when Master server is not seriously loaded and the more cores and hard drives the get the larger the difference becomes, as long as replication remains single thread process. At the same time it is a lot easier to optimize your system when your replication runs [...]
