Today we are pleased to announce the 1.4 release of ClusterControl - the all-inclusive database management system that lets you easily deploy, monitor, manage and scale highly available open source databases in any environment; on-premise or in the cloud.

This release contains key new features for MongoDB and MySQL Replication in particular, along with performance improvements and bug fixes.

Release Highlights For MySQL

MySQL Replication

• Enhanced multi-master deployment
• Flexible topology management & error handling
• Automated failover

MySQL Replication & Load Balancers

• Deploy ProxySQL on MySQL Replication setups and monitor performance
• HAProxy Read-Write split configuration support for MySQL Replication setups

Experimental support for Oracle MySQL Group Replication

• Deploy Group Replication Clusters …

Today we are pleased to announce the 1.4 release of ClusterControl - the all-inclusive database management system that lets you easily deploy, monitor, manage and scale highly available open source databases in any environment; on-premise or in the cloud.

This release contains key new features for MongoDB and MySQL Replication in particular, along with performance improvements and bug fixes.

Release Highlights For MySQL

MySQL Replication

• Enhanced multi-master deployment
• Flexible topology management & error handling
• Automated failover

MySQL Replication & Load Balancers

• Deploy ProxySQL on MySQL Replication setups and monitor performance
• HAProxy Read-Write split configuration support for MySQL Replication setups

Experimental support for Oracle MySQL Group Replication

• Deploy Group Replication Clusters …

We are proud to announce the new Percona online store!

Keeping your database environment tuned, optimized and high-performance is key to achieving business goals. If your database goes down, so does your business. Percona experts have a long history of helping enterprises ensure their databases are running smoothly. With Percona, you can meet today’s workloads, and prepare for future workloads before they impact performance.

Now we’ve made it even easier to get Percona database services: visit Percona’s new online store! The webstore is perfect for ordering a health audit and immediate, smaller-scale database support. Simply select your service type, answer a few questions about your environment, …

Please join Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev for a webinar on Thursday, January 12, 2017 at 11 am PST/ 2 pm EST (UTC-8) for a discussion on the Percona Software News and Roadmap Update for Q1 2017.

In this webinar, Peter will discuss what’s new in Percona open source software. This will include Percona Server for MySQL and MongoDB, Percona XtraBackup, Percona Toolkit, Percona XtraDB Cluster and Percona Monitoring and Management.

During this webinar Peter will talk about newly released features in Percona software, show a few quick demos and share with you highlights from the Percona open source software roadmap.

Peter will also talk about new developments in Percona commercial …

We are pleased to announce that MySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.3.2 is now available for download on the My Oracle Support (MOS) web site. It will also be available via the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud in a week or so. This is a maintenance release that includes a few new features and fixes a number of bugs. You can find more information on the contents of this release in the change log.

Highlights of MySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.3 include:

• 3.3 introduces a new Enterprise Backup Dashboard that brings deeper integration with MySQL Enterprise Backup. View current backup status, history and archive details by group or instance using MySQL Enterprise Backup Advisor collections from existing mysql.backup_history and mysql.backup_progress table data.
• Backup Group view shows a summary of backup events, details on the last …

We are excited to announce that the sneak peek schedule for the Percona Live 2017 Open Source Database Conference is up! The Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017 is April 24th – 27th, at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara & The Santa Clara Convention Center.

The Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017 is the premier event for the rich and diverse MySQL, MongoDB and open source database ecosystems. This conference provides an opportunity to network with peers and technology professionals by bringing together accomplished DBA’s, system architects and developers from around the world to share their …

Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.0.7.

The Percona Monitoring and Management Server (PMM) is distributed through Docker Hub, PMM Client – through tarball or system packages. The instructions for installing or upgrading PMM are available in the documentation.

PMM Server changelog

• Added new widgets and graphs to “PXC/Galera Graphs” dashboard.
• Fixed hostgroup filtering for ProxySQL dashboard.
• Various fixes to MongoDB dashboards.
• Enabled HTTPS/TLS and basic authentication support on Prometheus targets.
• Fixed potential error with too many connections on Query Analytics API. …

Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.1.7.

Changelog

• New Nagios script pmp-check-mongo.py for MongoDB.
• Added MySQL socket and flag options to Cacti PHP script.
• Added disk volume check on “Mounted on” in addition to “Filesystem” to Cacti PHP script to allow monitoring of tmpfs mounts.
• Allow delayed slave to have SQL thread stopped on pmp-check-mysql-replication-delay check.
• Fix for –unconfigured flag of pmp-check-mysql-replication-delay.
• Fix for max_duration check of pmp-check-mysql-innodb when system and MySQL timezones mismatch.
• Fix rare nrpe broken pipe error on …

Please join Federico Razzoli, Consultant at Percona, on Thursday, December 8, 2016, at 8 AM PT / 11 AM ET (UTC – 8) as he presents Virtual Columns in MySQL and MariaDB.

MariaDB 5.2 and MySQL 5.7 introduced virtual columns, with different implementations.Their features and limitations are similar, but not identical. The main difference is that only MySQL allows you to build an index on a non-persistent column.

In this talk, we’ll present some use cases for virtual columns. These cases include query simplification and UNIQUE constraints based on an SQL expression. In particular, we will see how to use them to index JSON data in MySQL, or dynamic columns in MariaDB.

Performance and limitations will also be …

We are excited to announce that the tutorial schedule for the Percona Live 2017 Open Source Database Conference is up!

The Percona Live 2017 Open Source Database Conference 2017 is April 24th – 27th, at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara & The Santa Clara Convention Center.

Click through to the tutorial link right now, look them over, and pick which sessions you want to attend. Discounted passes available below!

Tutorial List:

• MySQL 101: Operational DBA …