Graphic courtesy of Gartner: https://www.gartner.com/doc/reprints?id=1-2PMFPEN&ct=151013

Around this time last year, Gartner named Percona a Challenger in the 2015 Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems (Gartner Operational DBMS MQ). For those not familiar with these, Magic Quadrants (MQ) are a set of market research reports published by Gartner that provide qualitative analysis into a market by highlighting its participants, relevant trends, and overall depth.

While …

From everyone at Percona, we’d like to send a big thank you to all our sponsors, exhibitors, and attendees at this year’s Percona Live Europe Open Source Database Conference.

The conference was an outstanding success! The sold-out event brought the European open source database community together, with a technical emphasis on the core topics of MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL and other open source databases.

We are posting tutorial and session presentation slides at the Percona Live Europe site, and all of them should be available shortly. To get slides for a talk, browse the program schedule, find a topic that interests you and click that topic. The slides are at the bottom of the pop-up window containing the talk speaker …

Welcome to another Percona Live Europe featured talk with Percona Live Europe 2016: Amsterdam speakers! In this series of blogs, we’ll highlight some of the speakers that will be at this year’s conference. We’ll also discuss the technologies and outlooks of the speakers themselves. Make sure to read to the end to get a special Percona Live Europe registration bonus!

In this Percona Live Europe featured talk, we’ll meet Philipp Krenn, Infrastructure | Developer Advocate at Elastic. His talk will be on Elasticsearch for SQL Users. Elasticsearch is a …

This blog post is a summary of the webinar Percona Software News and Roadmap Update – Q3 2016 given by Peter Zaitsev on September 28th, 2016.

Over the last few months, I’ve had the opportunity to meet and talk with many of Percona’s customers. I love these meetings, and I always get a bunch of questions about what we’re doing, what our plans are and what releases are coming.

I’m pleased to say there is a great deal going on at Percona, and I thought giving a quick talk about our current software and services, along with our future plans, would provide a simple reference for many of these questions.

A full recording of this webinar, along with the presentation slide deck, …

As many readers already know, it's update season for a couple key database systems. This morning the PostgreSQL Global Development Group released PostgreSQL 9.6 and published an announcement covering need-to-know details. Similarly, MySQL 8.0 is right around the corner, and as the full numeric uptick to 8.0 indicates, it's bound to contain some significant changes. This is major news for many users of these platforms. In recognition of these shifts in the database landscape, we'll be hosting a webinar on October 25, where Baron Schwartz will look at the changes these updates contain, discussing features such as replication capabilities; more extensibility; improved performance; broader SQL implementation; and more. 

In the …

In this blog, I will provide answers to the Q & A for the Identifying and Solving Database Performance Issues with PMM webinar.

First, I want to thank everybody for attending the September 15 webinar. The recording and slides for the webinar are available here. Thanks for so many good questions. Below is the list of your questions that I wasn’t able to answer during the webinar, with responses:

Q: PMM has some restrictions working with metrics from RDS instances (AWS)? Aurora for example?
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Welcome to another Percona Live Europe featured talk with Percona Live Europe 2016: Amsterdam speakers! In this series of blogs, we’ll highlight some of the speakers that will be at this year’s conference. We’ll also discuss the technologies and outlooks of the speakers themselves. Make sure to read to the end to get a special Percona Live Europe registration bonus!

In this Percona Live Europe featured talk, we’ll meet Anthony Yeh, Software Engineer, Google. His talk will be on Launching Vitess: How to run YouTube’s MySQL …

The Call for Speakers for Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017 is open and accepting proposals through Oct. 31, 2016.

The Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017 is the premier event for the diverse and active open source community, as well as businesses that develop and use open source software. Topics for the event will focus on three key areas – MySQL, MongoDB and Open Source Databases – and the conference sessions will feature a range of in-depth discussions and hands-on tutorials.

The 2017 conference will feature four formal tracks – Developer, Operations, Business/Case Studies, and Wildcard – that will explore a variety of new and trending …

Welcome to this week’s Planets9s, covering all the latest resources and technologies we create around automation and management of open source database infrastructures.

Percona  announces the new release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 on September 21, 2016. Binaries are available from the downloads area or our software repositories.

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.30-25.16.3 is now the current release, based on the following:

• Percona Server 5.6.30-76.3
• Galera Replication library 3.16
• Codership wsrep API version 25

Bugs Fixed:

• Limiting …