Announcement of Percona XtraDB Cluster (alpha release)
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...
View ArticleMariaDB 5.3 is released as GA!
Congratulations to Monty Program and the many community contributors for releasing the GA version of MariaDB 5.3. We were in our annual all-staff meeting last week, so we are a little slow to blog...
View ArticleImpact of memory allocators on MySQL performance
MySQL server intensively uses dynamic memory allocation so a good choice of memory allocator is quite important for the proper utilization of CPU/RAM resources. Efficient memory allocator should help...
View ArticleInnoDB performance optimization basics (redux)
I recently stumbled upon a post that Peter Zaitsev published back in 2007 titled “Innodb Performance Optimization Basics.” It’s a great post and reading it inspired me to examine what’s changed in the...
View ArticlePercona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.14-25.1 Beta is now available
Percona is glad to announce the first Beta release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 on November 21st, 2013. Binaries are available from downloads area or from our software repositories.Based on Percona...
View ArticleIncreasing slow query performance with the parallel query execution
MySQL and Scaling-up (using more powerful hardware) was always a hot topic. Originally MySQL did not scale well with multiple CPUs; there were times when InnoDB performed poorer with more CPU cores...
View ArticlePercona XtraBackup 2.1.7 is now available
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.1.7 on January 24th, 2014. Downloads are available from our download site here and Percona Software Repositories.This release is the...
View ArticleOracle’s Mats Kindahl to weave MySQL Fabric into Percona Live session
Mats Kindahl of Oracle is lead developer of MySQL FabricMySQL Fabric is an integrated framework for managing farms of MySQL servers with support for both high-availability and sharding. Its development...
View ArticlePercona Server 5.6.21-69.0 is now available
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.21-69.0 on October 7, 2014. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories.Based on MySQL...
View ArticleQ&A: High availability when using MySQL in the cloud
Last week I hosted a webinar on using MySQL in the cloud for High Availability (HA) alongside 451 Research analyst Jason Stamper. You can watch the recording and also download the slides (free) here....
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