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Announcing MyRocks in Percona Server for MySQL.

RocksDB has been taking the world by the storm!

RocksDB counts Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Airbnb and Netflix among its users. It is the storage engine for many open source database technologies, including CockroachDB, Apache Flink, TiKV and Dgraph. It is also integrated with MySQL and MongoDB as the MyRocks and MongoRocks storage engines, respectively.

Percona was an early RocksDB supporter, as well as an early adopter. MongoRocks was included with Percona Server for MongoDB since its first GA version.   

RocksDB has proven itself to be a very stable, high-performance technology. The enthusiastic, …

As noted in several media outlets, many web sites have been affected by a DDoS attack on Dyn today. Since Percona uses Dyn for its DNS server, we are experiencing issues as well.  

The attack has impacted the percona.com web site availability and performance, including all related services such as our forums, blogs and downloads.

Our first response was to wait it out, and trust the Dyn team to deal with the attack — they have to handle issues like this all the time, and are generally pretty good at resolving these issues quickly. This was not the case today.

As such, to restore service, we have added another DNS provider (DNS Made Easy). This has restored connectivity …

We are pleased to announce that MySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.2.5 is now available for download on the My Oracle Support (MOS) web site. 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.

You will find binaries for the new release on My Oracle Support. Choose the "Patches & Updates" tab, and then choose the "Product or Family (Advanced Search)" side tab in the "Patch Search" portlet.

Important: MySQL Enterprise Monitor (MEM) 3.3 offers many significant improvements over MEM 3.2 and we highly recommend that you consider upgrading. More information on MEM 3.3 is available here:

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As part of the release of Percona Monitoring and Management, we set up an extensive online Percona Monitoring and Management demo at pmmdemo.percona.com. The demo is pretty self-explanatory and easy to explore, but you will probably find it a lot more interesting with some explanation. This post provides some guidance.

The PMM demo has a wide variety of MySQL and MongoDB servers set up. Besides its use as a public demo, it shows how things look with different software versions (what works and what does not). Different versions have different quirks and information available.

If you go to System Overview you will see the dropdown of different system names:

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The MySQL team at Oracle are excited to announce the immediate availability of the MySQL Cluster 7.5.4 GA release!

The development focus has been on improving overall performance and ease of use, combined with improved SQL support and the introduction of read optimized and fully replicated tables, all of which allow for better support of a variety of use cases. 

Use Case: Hadoop Performance Records Smashed by Hops and MySQL Cluster--delivers over 1.2 million operations per second

The key enhancements delivered by MySQL Cluster 7.5 are summarized below:

Improved Performance: Improvements in index/range scan performance and internal thread handling will allow for better use of existing hardware …

We are pleased to announce that MySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.1.5 is now available for download on the My Oracle Support (MOS) web site. 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.

You will find binaries for the new release on My Oracle Support. Choose the "Patches & Updates" tab, and then choose the "Product or Family (Advanced Search)" side tab in the "Patch Search" portlet.

Important: MySQL Enterprise Monitor (MEM) 3.3 offers many significant improvements over MEM 3.1 and MEM 3.2 and we highly recommend that you consider upgrading. More information on MEM 3.3 is available here:

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Busy couple of weeks coming up for yours truly! On Thursday October 13th I will be presenting a lightening talk on the MySQL JSON data type before Chuck Reeves presents How the 3rd Normal Form Destroyed a Family— Get your tickets here

Zendcon returns to Las Vegas October 18-21st. MySQL is a sponsor, we will have a booth, and best of all Ligaya Trumelle is presenting on MySQL Server Performance Tuning 101. I have presentations on the MySQL Document Store and a Replication Update. Stop by the booth and win a dolphin if you can pass the MySQL quiz!

Next is All Things Open in Raleigh October 26th & 27th. where MySQL is a very proud to be returning sponsor and I will be presenting on database programming basics. Stop by the booth and win a dolphin if you can pass the MySQL quiz!

We are pleased to announce that MySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.3.1 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 …

Take Percona’s One-Click 2017 Top Database Concerns Poll.

With 2017 coming quick around the corner, it’s time to start thinking about what next year is going to bring to the open source database community. We just finished Percona Live Europe 2017, and at the conference we looked at new technologies, new techniques, and new ideas. With all this change comes some uncertainty and concern regarding change: how is a changing ecosystem going to affect your database environment? Are you up to speed on the latest technologies and how they can impact your world?

Are your biggest concerns for 2017 scalability, performance, security, monitoring, updates and bugs, or staffing issues? What do you think is going to be your biggest issue in the coming …