Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.20-29.24 (PXC) on January 26, 2018. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories.

NOTE: Due to new package dependency,
Ubuntu/Debian users should use apt-get dist-upgrade, apt upgrade, or apt-get install percona-xtradb-cluster-57 to upgrade.

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.20-29.24 is now the current release, based on the following:

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Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.

Still on Meltdown/Spectre, this time MariaDB Corporation has published Meltdown Vulnerability Impact On MariaDB Server – interesting the comparison between glibc/tcmalloc. Worthy Facebook thread about this too, with a bit of chat about MongoDB performance. Officially MongoDB says a degradation of 10-15%. ScaleGrid has a good post, in which they test MongoDB against …

Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.38-26.23 (PXC) on January 24, 2018. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories.

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.38-26.23 is now the current release, based on the following:

• Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.38
• Galera/Codership WSREP API Release 5.6.38
• Galera Replication library 3.21

All Percona software is open-source and free. …

As Mydbops we are implementing Load Balancer using Maxscale or ProxySQL ( Our presentation ) for lot our client,  but these load balancers will become a SPOF (Single Point of failure) .  We have tried to explore services like HAProxy, Nginx, and Keepalived etc. Except Keepalived, all the services need to run on the standalone instance and  did not satisfy our exact need.

Keepalived does not requires any standalone instance, it can be deployed and configured with a minimal effort and provide the HA Solutions to the DB Infra. This approach not only fits for our DB setup, we can implement same …

Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.

There is still much going on when it comes to Meltdown/Spectre in our world. Percona’s Vadim Tkachenko and Alexey Stroganov recently published Does the Meltdown Fix Affect Performance for MySQL on Bare Metal?. You also want to read Mark Callaghan’s excellent work on this: Meltdown vs MySQL part 1: in-memory sysbench and a core i3 NUC, XFS, nobarrier and the 4.13 Linux kernel, …

In this blog post, we’ll look at ProxySQL firewalling (how to use ProxySQL as a firewall).

Not long ago we had an internal discussion about security, and how to enforce a stricter set of rules to prevent malicious acts and block other undesired queries. ProxySQL came up as a possible tool that could help us in achieving what we were looking for. Last year I wrote about how to use ProxySQL to stop a single query.

That approach may be good for few queries and as a temporary solution. But what can we do when we really want to use ProxySQL as an SQL-based firewall? And more importantly, how to do it right?

First of all, let us define what “right” can be in this context. …

High availability for MySQL has become increasingly relevant given the ever increasing rate of adoption and implementation. It’s no secret to anyone in the community that the popularity of MySQL has become noteworthy. I still remember my start with MySQL in the early 5.0 days and people told me that I may not want to consider wasting my time training on a database that didn’t have a large industry adoption, but look at where we are now! One of my favorite pages to cite when trying to exhibit this fact is the db-engines.com ranking trend page where we can see that MySQL is right up there and contending with enterprise products such as Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle.

MySQL has gone from being part of the ever famous LAMP stack for users looking to set up their first website to seeing adoption from major technical players such as …

There are 3 pillars for a database architecture: Monitoring, Backup / Restore process, High Availability This blog post is about database High Availability; more precisely about one of the best combo of the moment : MySQL 5.7 Group Replication : the only native HA solution for MySQL, it's a Single/Multi-master update everywhere replication plugin for MySQL with built-in automatic distributed recovery, conflict detection and group membership. ProxySQL 1.4 : probably the best proxy for MySQL.

In this post, we’ll look at how to improve queries using generated columns and ProxySQL instead of implementing a referenced table.

Developers and architects don’t always have the time or complete information to properly analyze and design a database. That is why we see tables with more fields than needed, or with incorrect types. The best solution is implementing a change in the database schema and/or application level. In this post, we’ll look at an example of generated columns (using a char field) instead of creating a referenced table, and how using generated columns and ProxySQL avoids changes at the application level.

For this example, I will be using the film table of the Sakila database (with some changes). The original film table had a language_id as tinyint, which refers to the language table:

Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2017.

The closing of a year lends itself to looking back. And making lists. With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open source community with insights, technical support, predictions and metrics around multiple open source database software technologies. We’ve had over three and a half million visits to the blog in 2017: thank you! We look forward to providing you with even better articles, news and information in 2018.

As 2017 moves into 2018, let’s take a quick look back at some of the most popular posts on the blog this year.

Top 10 Most Read

These posts had the most number of views (working down from the highest):

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