Ready to transition from a commercial database to open source, and want to know which databases are most popular in 2019? Wondering whether an on-premise vs. public cloud vs. hybrid cloud infrastructure is best for your database strategy? Or, considering adding a new database to your application and want to see which combinations are most popular? We found all the answers you need at the Percona Live event last month, and broke down the insights into the following free trends reports:

• Top Databases Used: Open Source vs. Commercial
• Cloud Infrastructure Analysis: Public Cloud vs. On-Premise vs. Hybrid Cloud
• Polyglot Persistence Trends: …

PALO ALTO, Calif., June 6, 2019 – ScaleGrid, the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) leader in the SQL and NoSQL space, has announced the expansion of their fully managed MySQL Hosting services to support Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. The platform allows MySQL AWS administrators to automate their time-consuming database operations in the cloud and improve their performance with high availability, disaster recovery, polyglot persistence, and advanced monitoring and analytics.

Over the years, migrating data to the cloud has become a top priority for organizations looking to modernize their infrastructure for improved security, performance, and …

We are pleased to announce the release of PMM 2 Beta!  PMM (Percona Monitoring and Management) is a free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL performance.

• Query Analytics:
  • MySQL and MongoDB – Slow log, PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA, and Profiler data sources
  • Support for large environments – default view all queries from all instances
  • Filtering – display only the results matching filters such as the schema name or the server instance
  • Sorting and more columns – now sort by any column.
  • Modify Columns – Add one or more columns for any field exposed by the data source
  …

We’re pleased to share our webinar “Multi-Region AWS Aurora vs Continuent Tungsten for MySQL & MariaDB”, recorded live on Thursday, April 18th, 2019.

Our colleague Matt Lang walks you through a comparison of building a global, multi-region MySQL / MariaDB / Percona cloud back-end using AWS Aurora versus Continuent Tungsten.

If you’d like to find out how multi-region AWS Aurora deployments can be improved – then this webinar is for you!

We hope you enjoy it!

Recorded:

Thursday, April 18th at 10am PST / 1pm EST / 4pm BST / 5pm CEST

Recording: follow this link to watch

Slides: …

In this three-part blog series, we introduced a High Availability (HA) Framework for MySQL hosting in Part I, and discussed the details of MySQL semisynchronous replication in Part II. Now in Part III, we review how the framework handles some of the important MySQL failure scenarios and recovers to ensure high availability.

MySQL Failure Scenarios Scenario 1 – Master MySQL Goes Down

• The Corosync and Pacemaker framework detects that the master MySQL is no longer available. Pacemaker demotes the master resource and tries …

In my prior blog post on Terraform, I demonstrated building the dependent infrastructure that MySQL implementations need.  Building MySQL isn’t much different, but does identify a need for a Webserver to provide configuration files for Terraform to execute on as was done in my prior MySQL on OCI post, and a Yum Repo Webserver to… Read More »

In my prior blog post on Terraform, I demonstrated building the dependent infrastructure that MySQL implementations need.  Building MySQL isn’t much different, but does identify a need for a Webserver to provide configuration files for Terraform to execute on as was done in my prior MySQL on OCI post, and a Yum Repo Webserver to… Read More »

I have written previous blog posts about Oracle Cloud OCI and this series continues. My post titled with Iaas Getting Started was to get us acquainted with important security-focused items like Compartments and network Services like NAT and Internet-Gateways. Then I posted about building MySQL on Compute with Scripting using a mix of OCI Web console navigation… Read More »

I have written previous blog posts about Oracle Cloud OCI and this series continues. My post titled with Iaas Getting Started was to get us acquainted with important security-focused items like Compartments and network Services like NAT and Internet-Gateways. Then I posted about building MySQL on Compute with Scripting using a mix of OCI Web console navigation… Read More »

In case you missed the Multimaster webinar recorded live on Thursday, March 28th, 2019:

Learn how NewVoiceMedia built a global, multi-region MySQL cloud back-end to support a high-volume cloud contact center. 

Agenda:

Find out how to deploy Multimaster MySQL / MariaDB / Percona with the following design criteria:

• Geographically distributed, low-latency data
• Fast local response times for read & write traffic
• Full ACID compliance – atomic operations, guaranteed consistency, isolation, and durability
• Local rapid-failover, automated high availability

Speaker:

Chris Parker

Director of Professional Services – EMEA/APAC, is based in the UK, and has over 20 years …