Join Percona’s Software Engineer (PXC Lead), Krunal Bauskar as he presents Percona XtraDB Cluster 101 on Thursday, December 7, 2017, at 7:00 am PST / 10:00 am EST (UTC-8).

Tags: Percona XtraDB Cluster, MySQL, High Availability, Clustering

Experience Level: Beginner

Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) is a multi-master solution that offers virtual synchronous replication among clustering node. It is based on the Codership Galera replication library. In this session, we will explore some key features of Percona XtraDB Cluster that make it enterprise ready including some recently added 5.7 exclusive features.

This webinar is an introductory and …

In a clustering environment, we often see a node that needs to be taken down for maintenance. For a node to rejoin, it should re-sync with the cluster state. In PXC (Percona XtraDB Cluster), there are 2 ways for the rejoining node to re-sync: State Snapshot Transfer (SST) and Incremental State Transfer (IST). SST involves a full data transfer (which could be time consuming). IST is an incremental data transfer whereby only missing write-sets are donated by a DONOR to the rejoining node (aka as JOINER).

In this article I will try to show how a DONOR for the IST process is selected.

Selecting an IST DONOR

First, a word about gcache. Each node retains some write-sets in its cache known as gcache. Once this gcache is full it is purged to make room for new write-sets. Based on gcache configuration, each node may retain a different span of write-sets. The wider the span, the greater the probability of the node acting as …

Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.19-29.22-3 on October 27, 2017. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories.

NOTE: You can also run Docker containers from the images in the Docker Hub repository.

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.19-29.22-3 is now the current release, based on the following:

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Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.37-26.21-3 on October 27, 2017. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories.

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.37-26.21-3 is now the current release, based on the following:

• Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.37-82.2
• Galera Replication library 3.21
• wsrep API version 26

All Percona software is open-source and free.

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Welcome to the first day of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference Europe 2017: Tutorials day! Technically the first day of the conference, this day focused on provided hands-on tutorials for people interested in learning directly how to use open source tools and technologies.

Today attendees went to training sessions taught by open source database experts and got first-hand experience configuring, working with, and experimenting with various open source technologies and software.

The first full day (which includes opening keynote speakers and breakout sessions) starts Tuesday 9/26 at 9:15 am.

Some of the tutorial topics covered today were:

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Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.19-29.22 on September 22, 2017. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories.

NOTE: You can also run Docker containers from the images in the Docker Hub repository.

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.19-29.22 is now the current release, based on the following:

• …

Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.37-26.21 on September 20, 2017. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories.

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.37-26.21 is now the current release, based on the following:

• Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.37-82.2
• Galera Replication library 3.21
• wsrep API version 26

All Percona software is open-source and free.

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This post is the third of a series focusing on the MySQL high availability solutions available in 2017.

The first post looked at the elders, the technologies that have been around for more than ten years. The second post talked about the adults, the more recent and mature technologies. In this post, we will look at the emerging MySQL high availability solutions. The “baby” MySQL high availability solutions I chose for the blog are group replication, proxies and distributed storage.

Group replication

Group replication is the Oracle response to Galera. The term “InnoDB cluster” means a cluster using group replication. The goal is offering …

In this blog post, we’ll look at some of the MySQL high availability solution options.

In the previous post of this series, we looked at the MySQL high availability (HA) solutions that have been around for a long time. I called these solutions “the elders.” Some of these solutions (like replication) are heavily used today and have been improved from release to release of MySQL.

This post focuses on the MySQL high availability solutions that have appeared over the last five years and gained a fair amount of traction in the community. I chose to include this group only two solutions: Galera and RDS Aurora. I’ll use the term “Galera” generically: it covers Galera Cluster, MariaDB Cluster and Percona …

In this blog, we’ll look at group replication and how it deals with flow control (FC) and replication lag. 

Overview

In the last few months, we had two main actors in the MySQL ecosystem: ProxySQL and Group-Replication (with the evolution to InnoDB Cluster). 

While I have extensively covered the first, my last serious work on Group Replication dates back to some lab version years past.

Given that Oracle decided to declare it GA, and Percona’s decision to provide some level of Group Replication support, I decided it was time for me to take a look at it again.

We’ve seen a lot of coverage already too many Group Replication topics. There are articles about Group Replication and performance, Group Replication and basic functionalities (or lack of it like automatic node provisioning), Group Replication and ProxySQL, and so on.

But one question kept coming up over and over in my …