“To be competitive with non-open-source cloud deployment options, open source databases need to invest in “ease-of-use.” There is no tolerance for complexity in many development teams as we move to “ops-less” deployment models.” –Peter Zaitsev

I have interviewed Peter Zaitsev, Co-Founder and CEO of Percona.
In this interview, Peter talks about the Open Source Databases market; the Cloud; the scalability challenges at Facebook; compares MySQL, MariaDB, and MongoDB; and presents Percona’s contribution to the MySQL and MongoDB ecosystems.

RVZ

Q1. What are the main technical challenges in obtaining application scaling?

Peter Zaitsev: When it comes to scaling, there are different types. There is a Facebook/Google/Alibaba/Amazon scale: these …

I just wanted to share the ‘how to’ in getting to know MySQL Cluster a bit more, via Docker, as mentioned in the docker store install guide:

https://store.docker.com/community/images/mysql/mysql-cluster.

all I’m doing here is replicating what’s mentioned there. Hopefully someone might find it interesting, if considering wanting to get a MySQL Cluster up and running to see how it works.

For more info on MySQL in Docker, I’d highly recommend looking at this blog:

http://datacharmer.blogspot.com/2015/10/mysql-docker-operations-part-1-getting.html

(Thanks to Giuseppe here!)

So, what’s needed? Here we go.

Get the cluster image from docker:

$ docker pull …

Well, since working with outdated clusters and upgrade paths that quickly become obsolete, as in my last post, Migrating/importing NDB to Cluster Manager w/ version upgrade. , I wanted to share that we can also use Cluster Manager, mcm, to upgrade NDB Cluster from 7.3 directly to 7.5. So we can start using the mcm new features like autotune that help guide us towards some Cluster tuning, or 7.5 new features like READ_BACKUP or FULLY_REPLICATED tables. …

I’ve had some questions from people using MySQL Cluster GPL and wanting to move to using MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition, i.e., they want to use MySQL Cluster Manager, MCM, to make their lives much easier, in particular, upgrading (as well as config change ease and backup history).

All I want to do here is to share with you my personal experience on migrating what’s considered a ‘wild’ NDB Cluster to a MCM managed cluster. It’s just as simple to follow the manual chapter Importing a Cluster into MySQL Cluster Manager so at least you can see how I did it, and it might help someone.

[ If you’re not migrating but just looking for further information on NDB Cluster, and came across this post, please please PLEASE look at the …

MySQL’s multi-source replication allows you to replicate data from multiple databases into one database in parallel (at the same time). This post will explain and show you how to set up multi-source replication. (WARNING: This is a very long and detailed post. You might want to grab a sandwich and a drink.)

In most replication environments, you have one master database and one or more slave databases. This topology is used for high-availability scenarios, where the reads and writes are split between multiple servers. Your application sends the writes to the master, and reads data from the slaves. This is one way to scale MySQL horizontally for reads, as you can have more than one slave. Multi-source replication allows you to write to multiple MySQL instances, and then combine the data into one server.

Here is a quick overview of …

“Spark and Ignite can complement each other very well. Ignite can provide shared storage for Spark so state can be passed from one Spark application or job to another. Ignite can also be used to provide distributed SQL with indexing that accelerates Spark SQL by up to 1,000x.”–Nikita Ivanov.

I have interviewed Nikita Ivanov,CTO of GridGain.
Main topics of the interview are Apache Ignite, Apache Spark and MySQL, and how well they perform on big data analytics.

RVZ

Q1. What are the main technical challenges of SaaS development projects?

Nikita Ivanov: SaaS requires that the applications be highly responsive, reliable and web-scale. SaaS development projects face many of the same challenges as …

Introduction

Recently I have been involved in an effort to convert MySQL databases from a utf8 character set to utf8mb4. As a part of this effort, my team evaluated which collations would be best for facilitating a broad range of multi-lingual support.

There have been many recent posts in the MySQL community about better unicode collation support in MySQL 8 such as from the MySQL Server Team’s blog at Oracle, who have also done a good job of showing us how newer collations based on UTF8 9.0.0 will properly group and sort characters according to their case and inheritance. As the title of the latter post suggests, the “devil is” indeed “in the details”.

There is also the matter of the …

Dear MySQL users,

The MySQL developer tools team announces 6.3.9 as our GA release for
MySQL Workbench 6.3.

For the full list of changes in this revision, visit
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/workbench/en/changes-6-3.html

For discussion, join the MySQL Workbench Forums:
http://forums.mysql.com/index.php?152

Download MySQL Workbench 6.3.9 GA now, for Windows, Mac OS X 10.10+,
Oracle Linux 7, Fedora 24 and 25, Ubuntu 16.04 and 16.10
or sources, from:

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/tools/workbench/

Most users of MySQL utilize the mysqldump utility to backup their database. While mysqldump is handy and easy-to-use (and free), if you have data which is important to your business, then you should take a look at the MySQL Enterprise Edition – and use MySQL Enterprise Backup instead. The MySQL Enterprise Backup allows you to backup your database without the table locking you get with mysqldump. And, it is extremely fast – especially when you have to restore your database. Here is a sample speed comparison between MySQL Enterprise Backup and …

Recent versions of MySQL and PostgreSQL databases provide JSON functionality support. They introduced special data types, storing JSON data – json data type in MySQL (since MySQL 5.7.8), and json and jsonb data types in PostgreSQL (json introduced in PostgreSQL 9.2, and jsonb introduced in PostgreSQL 9.4). In Oracle, some JSON-related functionality was added in […]