It’s finally here! Percona Server Percona Server 5.5.8-20.0 is now available for download. This is a beta release of Percona’s enhancements to the MySQL 5.5.8 server. Here are some highlights: Performance and scalability improvements throughout the server and storage engine Optimizations for flash storage such as SSD, Virident, and FusionIO Optimizations for cloud computing The [...]
Percona Server 5.1.54-12.5
January 11, 2011 By 9 Comments
Percona Server version 5.1.54-12.5 is now available for download. It is now the current stable release version. Functionality Added or Changed Percona Server 5.1.54-12.5 is based on MySQL 5.1.54. New Features Added: None Other Changes: Added system variable innodb_log_block_size and new value “keep_average” to system variable adaptive_checkpoint in Improved InnoDB I/O Scalability. (Yasufumi Kinoshita) Added new value [...]
Percona Server 5.1.53-12.4
December 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Percona Server version 5.1.53-12.4 is now available for download. It is now the current stable release version. Functionality Added or Changed  Percona Server 5.1.53-12.4 is based on MySQL 5.1.53.  New Features Added: Precompiled UDFs for Maatkit (FNV and MurmurHash hash functions to provide faster checksums) are now included in distributions. Fixes feature request #689992. (Aleksandr Kuzminsky) [...]
MySQL 5.5.8 and Percona Server on Fast Flash card (Virident tachIOn)
December 21, 2010 By 11 Comments
This is to follow up on my previous post and show the results for MySQL 5.5.8 and Percona Server on the fastest hardware I have in our lab:Â a Cisco UCS C250 server with 384GB of RAM, powered by a Virident tachIOn 400GB SLC card. To see different I/O patterns, I used different innodb_buffer_pool_size settings: 13G, [...]
MySQL 5.5.8 and Percona Server: being adaptive
December 20, 2010 By 25 Comments
As we can see, MySQL 5.5.8 comes with great improvements and scalability fixes. Adding up all the new features, you have a great release. However, there is one area I want to touch on in this post. At Percona, we consider it important not only to have the best peak performance, but also stable and predictable performance. I refer you [...]
Percona Server 5.1.53-11.7
December 16, 2010 By 2 Comments
Percona Server version 5.1.53-11.7 is now available for download. The main purpose of this release is to update the current Percona stable release to the latest version of MySQL 5.1. Functionality Added or Changed  Percona Server 5.1.53-11.7 is now based on MySQL 5.1.53.  New Features Added: None  Other Changes: None Bugs Fixed Bug #643149 – [...]
Percona Server now both SQL and NOSQL
December 14, 2010 By 19 Comments
Just yesterday we released Percona Server 5.1.52-12.3 which includes HandlerSocket. This is third-party plugin, developed by Akira Higuci, DeNA Co., Ltd and explained in Yoshinori Matsunobu’s blog post. What is so special about it: It provides NOSQL-like requests to data stored in XtraDB. So in the same time you can access your data in SQL [...]
Percona Training in London and Frankfurt
December 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
For those that missed it – last week we added training in Frankfurt and London to our website. This includes our new Operations Training announced in September. (While in Europe, we’d love to speak at your meetup group on Percona Server and/or MySQL Optimization. If you’re a meetup organizer in London or Paris, please feel [...]
Percona Server 5.1.52-12.3
December 13, 2010 By 2 Comments
Percona Server version 5.1.52-12.3 is now available for download. The main purpose of this release is to update the current Percona release candidate to the latest version of MySQL 5.1. The release also includes the HandlerSocket plugin, which provides NoSQL features in Percona Server. Functionality Added or Changed Percona Server 5.1.52-12.3 is now based on [...]
Percona XtraBackup 1.5-Beta
December 13, 2010 By 6 Comments
Percona XtraBackup 1.5-Beta is now available for download. This release adds additional functionality to Percona XtraBackup 1.4, the current general availability version of XtraBackup. This is a beta release. Functionality Added or Changed Support for MySQL 5.5 databases has been implemented. (Yasufumi Kinoshita) XtraBackup can now be built from the MySQL 5.1.52, MySQL 5.5.7, or Percona Server [...]
