… moment are the following: Percona patches, which are included in our own MySQL builds and then in OurDelta builds and perhaps others as well XtraDB, which is our new high-performance transactional storage… features into our Percona builds. Firstly, customers get to choose whether they want us to do this. Secondly, the builds are designed to…
Post: How Percona does a MySQL Performance Audit
November 24, 2008 By 17 Comments
… no other technique that approaches the amount of information a Percona build can give you. Having found the desired information about the… avoided. The changes Percona‘s performance audits typically suggest can be really significant, and can completely change the performance profile and workload of…
Post: Is your server's performance about to degrade?
May 18, 2010 By 13 Comments
… customer a while back whose server suddenly took a 50x performance hit, overnight. He didn’t know of anything that had… on one customer’s server. The server is running a Percona build of 5.0.84, so I have microsecond logging in… was able to see queries that have mostly very fast performance, and occasionally have much worse, and — here’s the magic…
Post: MySQL performance on EC2/EBS versus RDS
August 4, 2011 By 10 Comments
… and reduced mutex contention. The performance improvements I got with Percona Server were similar to the performance improvements I saw versus stock MySQL… business level, consider the benefits and drawbacks of RDS versus building the equivalent system yourself. RDS is nice in that it…
Post: Scaling problems still exist in MySQL 5.5 and Percona Server 5.5
May 20, 2011 By 11 Comments
… system shows from performance at 1 thread to the peak performance we see the number is 2.3 for Percona Server 5.1 and around 6 for Percona Server 5…_spin,pfs_rw_lock_s_lock_fu nc,btr_search_build_page_hash_index,btr_search_info_update_slow,btr_search…
Post: High-Performance Click Analysis with MySQL
December 22, 2008 By 13 Comments
… build high-performance systems to do this work. Let’s see some ways you can build the functionality you need and get the performance…. The problem is that MySQL doesn’t tend to perform well on a data warehousing workload. The nested-loop…-the-box than MySQL is, especially for more complex queries. Percona is not tied to MySQL, although we’re most famous…
Comment: MySQL 5.5-m2 scalability
March 1, 2010 By 17 Comments
…….so I’ve confused myself now. Maybe back then the Percona build was mostly just the Google patches plus extra debugging info… see performance against the Percona performance build and against Xtradb. In fact, it would be nice to see a blog post on how the Percona performance build…
Post: New patches, new builds
September 5, 2008 By 24 Comments
… patches. Second is “-percona-highperf” release, which contains experimental patches that can improve performance significantly. On this stage “percona-highperf” contains patches from… to control insert buffer and flushing 5.1 release Contains build-in InnoDB plugin, so there is no more needs to…
Post: Percona XtraBackup 1.6
April 12, 2011 By 15 Comments
….1.55, MySQL 5.5.9, Percona Server 5.1.55-12.6, and Percona Server 5.5.9-20.1 code… binary is now based on Percona Server 5.5, rather than MySQL 5.5. Support for building against InnoDB plugin in MySQL… warning message about the dropped table. (Alexey Kopytov) Bug #717784 – Performing parallel backups with the –parallel option could cause xtrabackup to…
Post: Percona's Commitments to MySQL Users
November 5, 2010 By 10 Comments
…: diagnose and solve the root problems our customers experience, and build new features to overcome limitations in the server. We have…-source database server that delivers improved performance and functionality to our customers. Always fairly priced Percona is the oldest independent support provider…
