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 [...]
FlashCache: first experiments
May 10, 2010 By 18 Comments
I wrote about FlashCache there, and since that I run couple benchmarks, to see what performance benefits we can expect. For initial tries I took sysbench oltp tests ( read-only and read-write) and case when data fully fits into L2 cache. I made binaries for FlashCache for CentOS 5.4, kernel 2.6.18-164.15, you can download it [...]
Level 2 Flash cache is there
April 27, 2010 By 5 Comments
As I mentioned in my talk An Overview of Flash Storage for Databases I see in the near and middle term future a lot of interest for using Flash storage in Level 2 caching level. The price-capacity trade-off makes Flash as the very good fit for a cache layer. Actually it is not the new [...]
Percona Server version 10
April 13, 2010 By 3 Comments
Dear Community, Today we are pleased to announce the release 10 of Percona Server with XtraDB storage engine. Since the previous release 9.1 there are following changes
xtrabackup-1.1
March 24, 2010 By 5 Comments
Dear Community, It is time to announce the next version of backup software from Percona – XtraBackup 1.1. The list of changes in version 1.1 includes: Changelog: XtraBackup is built on a base of MySQL 5.1.44 with InnoDB plugin 1.0.6 Added –host option tar4ibd can treat over 64GB file tar4ibd is default method for stream, [...]
Percona-XtraDB version 9.1
March 14, 2010 By 16 Comments
Dear Community, We are announcing today the new version 9.1 of XtraDB storage engine. The name of binaries has changed to Percona-XtraDB. It is applicable to all packages including RPM, DEB and tar.gz packages. New features in version 9.1: MySQL 5.1.43 is taken as the basis packages name changed to Percona-XtraDB Enabled support of SSL [...]
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 [...]
XtraDB storage engine release 1.0.4-8
October 12, 2009 By 12 Comments
Dear Community, We are glad to present you release 8 of XtraDB. The release includes following new features: The release is base on 1.0.4 version of InnoDB plugin. We thank Schooner Information Technology for sponsoring and testing the port of XtraDB to 1.0.4 MySQL 5.1.39 as a base release Fixed bugs: Bugs#413858: Crash from failed [...]
XtraDB storage engine release 1.0.3-7
August 17, 2009 By 6 Comments
Dear Community, Today we are announcing XtraDB release 7. This is the last release based on InnoDB plugin version 1.0.3, as you might know Innobase has released 1.0.4. The release includes following new features: MySQL 5.1.37 as a base release speed hack for buf_flush_insert_sorted_into_flush_list controlled by the new variable innodb_fast_recovery Fixed bugs: MySQL Bugs: #45357: [...]
Copying InnoDB tables between servers
July 31, 2009 By 11 Comments
The feature I announced some time ago http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/06/08/impossible-possible-moving-innodb-tables-between-servers/ is now available in our latest releases of XtraBackup 0.8.1 and XtraDB-6. Now I am going to show how to use it (the video will be also available on percona.tv). Let’s take tpcc schema and running standard MySQL ® 5.0.83, and assume we want to copy order_line [...]
