Percona Live is humming along, and we had quite a whirlwind keynote session this morning. Bill Nye the Science Guy gave an amazing talk, Bill Nye’s Objective – Change the World, on how the process of science and critical thinking can help us not only be positive about the challenges we face in our world today, but also help us to come up with the big ideas we need to solve them. He discussed many topics, from how his parents met, their involvement in science (his mother worked on the Enigma Code in World War 2!), working at Boeing as an engineer, his involvement with Carl Sagan, and how he has worked to help harness renewable energy through solar panels, a solar water heater, and skylights at his own …

In my last I was looking for a way to do performance monitoring and I stumbled upon Prometheus. Prometheus is much more than monitoring a single node service. Anyway let’s get the idea of gathering metrics using MySQL as example.

This how a simple configuration of Prometheus could look like:

global: 
  scrape_interval: 1m
  scrape_timeout: 10s
  evaluation_interval: 1m

scrape_configs:
  - job_name: mysql
    scheme: http
    target_groups:
    - targets: 
        - '10.17.148.31:9104'
      labels:
        zone: mysql

Every minute Prometheus accesses 172.17.148.31:9104/metrics (/metrics is a Prometheus convention) and labels the result with zone=mysql. Querying the data you can use the labels.

This is a simple configuration. The fun of Prometheus is to have a lot of targets/jobs.

Let’s have a look at our specific endpoint: …

We’re moving along on the first day at Percona Live Data Performance Conference 2016, and I was able to attend a lecture from Intel’s Ken LeTourneau on Performance of Percona Server for MySQL on Intel Server Systems using HDD, SATA SSD, and NVMe SSD as Different Storage Mediums. In this talk, Ken reviewed some benchmark testing he did using MySQL on various types of storage mediums. This talk looked at the performance of Percona Server for MySQL for Linux running on the same Intel system, but with three different storage configurations. We looked at and compared the performance of:

1. a RAID of HDD
2. a RAID of SATA SSD
3. a RAID of NVMe SSD

In the talk,  Ken covered the hardware and system …

Today was day one of the Percona Live Data Performance Conference! The day began with some excellent keynote speakers and exciting topics, and the packed room was eager to hear what our speakers had to say!

Peter Zaitsev, CEO, Percona
Percona Opening  Keynote
Peter kicked it off today by thanking the sponsors, the speakers, the Percona Live committee, and the attendees for contributing and participating in this year’s event. It has grown and changed quite a bit from its initial creation. Peter emphasized how this a gathering of members of a community, one that changes and adapts, and discusses and debates many different points of views and opinions. No longer is …

Yesterday I had a 3-hour tutorial about MyRocks at Percona Live. Now slides are available.

Percona is excited to announce the launch of Percona Monitoring and Management Beta!

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a fully open source solution for both managing MySQL platform performance and tuning query performance. It allows DBAs and application developers to optimize the performance of the Database Layer. PMM is an on-premises solution that keeps all of your performance and query data inside the confines of your environment, with no requirement for any data to cross the internet.

Assembled from a supported package of “best of breed” open source tools such as Prometheus, Grafana and Percona’s Query Analytics, PMM delivers results right out of the box.

With PMM, anyone with database maintenance responsibilities can get more visibility for actionable enhancements, realize faster issue resolution times, …

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.2.0. This is an alpha release. See the release notes and changelog for details on this release. Download MariaDB 10.2.0 Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.2? MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!

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In this blog, I will provide answers to the Webinar Q & A for Introduction to Troubleshooting Performance: What Affects Query Execution?

First, I want to thank you for attending the April, 7 webinar. This webinar is the third in the “MySQL Troubleshooting” webinar series and last introductory webinar in the series. The recording and slides for the webinar are available here. Here is the list of your questions that I wasn’t able to answer during the webinar, with responses:

Q: If we had some MyISAM tables, could we use …

A number of members of the MySQL Engineering Team will be at Percona Live and the MySQL Innovation Day over the next week or so. Here is where you can find us:

Tuesday 19 April 2016

• The Exciting MySQL 5.7 Replication Enhancements
  11:30am: Luis Soares
• Introducing the MySQL Document Store
  11:30am: Mike Frank, Jan Kneschke, Alfredo Kojima
• MySQL Query Optimizer Overview
  1:20pm: Olav Sandstå
• …

This blog post will discuss creating geo-enabled applications with MongoDB, GeoJSON and MySQL.

Introduction

Recently I published a blog post about the new GIS features in MySQL 5.7. Today I’ve looked into how to use MongoDB (I’ve tested with 3.0 and 3.2, with 3.2 being much faster) for the same purpose. I will also talk about GIS in MySQL and MongoDB at Percona Live next week (together with my colleague …