TL;DR

Percona XtraBackup is a 100% open-source backup solution for Percona Server for MySQL and MySQL®. It is designed for high-availability environments, performing online, non-blocking, and highly secure backups of transactional systems without interrupting your production traffic.

While full backups work for small databases, large-scale systems rely on incremental backups to save space and time. However, the “prepare” stage, required to make the incremental backups consistent, was slow because XtraBackup processed the .delta files serially. The .delta files are generated per table and store only the modifications since the last backup.

Great news! In XtraBackup versions …

Having a separate DR cluster for production databases is a modern day requirement or necessity for tech and other related businesses that rely heavily on their database systems. Setting up such a [DC -> DR] topology for Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC), which is a virtually- synchronous cluster, can be a bit challenging in a complex Kubernetes environment.

Here, Percona Operator for MySQL comes in handy, with a minimal number of steps to configure such a topology, which ensures a remote side backup or a disaster recovery solution.

So without taking much time, let’s see how the overall setup and configurations look from a practical standpoint.

PXC Cross-Site/Disaster Recovery

DC Configuration

1) Here we have a three-node PXC cluster running on the DC side.

shell> kubectl get pods -n pxc
NAME                                               READY   STATUS …

Benchmarking MyRocks vs. InnoDB in Memory-Constrained Environments It is a well-known fact in the database world that InnoDB is incredibly fast when the entire database fits into memory. But what happens when your data grows beyond your available RAM? MyRocks, built on RocksDB, is frequently recommended as a superior choice for environments constrained by memory, […]

Over the past weeks, we have seen renewed discussion/concern in the MySQL community around claims that “Oracle has stopped developing MySQL” or that “MySQL is being abandoned.” These concerns were amplified by graphs showing an apparent halt in GitHub commits after October 2025, as well as by blog posts and forum discussions that interpreted these signals at face value.

As someone who has publicly analyzed the MySQL repository activity and who works daily with MySQL at Percona, I want to clearly separate what the data actually shows from what it does not.

This post should not be read as an uncritical defense of Oracle. We often disagree with Oracle’s decisions, and we say so openly. But fairness matters — especially when fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) start affecting customers and the wider ecosystem.

The Claim: “Oracle Stopped Committing to MySQL After October 2025”

When we run databases in Kubernetes, we quickly learn one important truth: things will fail, and we need to be prepared for this. Pods are ephemeral; nodes can come and go, storage is abstracted behind PersistentVolumes and can be either local to a node or backed by network storage, and Kubernetes moves workloads as needed […]

Where We Are We can all agree that the MySQL ecosystem isn’t in great shape right now. Take a look at Julia’s blog post [Analyzing the Heartbeat of the MySQL Server: A Look at Repository Statistics], which confirms what many of us have felt: Oracle isn’t as committed to MySQL and its ecosystem as it […]

Your MySQL database has been running smoothly for years. Your team knows it inside and out. Everything just… works. Why rock the boat with an upgrade? Here’s why: MySQL 8.0 reaches its end-of-life date in April 2026. After this date, there’s no safety net; staying on end-of-life software means you’re taking on all the responsibility […]

At Percona, we’ve always been dedicated to providing robust, open source high availability solutions that meet our users’ evolving needs. Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) stands as a testament to this commitment, offering a highly available and scalable solution for your MySQL and Percona Server for MySQL deployments. We understand that database high availability is critical […]

TL;DR Percona Server for MySQL now offers experimental support for stored programs in the JS language. This free and open source alternative to Oracle’s Enterprise/Cloud-only feature enables users to write stored programs in a more modern, convenient, and often more familiar language. It is still in active development, and we would very much like your […]

So, as you’ve noticed, I’ve been playing around with MySQL Router v8.4.3 and read-write splitting, and now I’ve come across some issues that my environment has generated and I’ve opened some bugs against the fiend:

Bug 116950 – Router Read-Write splitting config causes PHP RSET_HEADER error

Bug 116951 – mysqlrouter Error parsing stats_updates_frequency errors

Bug 116952 – Router w/ RW split causes ERROR: 4501 if sql script contains comments lines (“– “)

(Yup, I prepared each bug description, repeatable tasks and suggested fix …