I have heard this question quite often: “At busy times, our replicas start lagging quite frequently. We are using N schemas, so which performance boost could we expect from MySQL 5.6 parallel replication?” Here is a quick way to give you a rough estimate of the potential benefit.

General idea

In MySQL 5.6, parallelism is added at the schema level. So in theory, if you have N schemas and if you use N parallel threads, replication could be up to N times faster. This assumes at least 2 things:

• Replication throughput scales linearly with the number of parallel threads.
• Writes are evenly distributed across schemas.

Both assumptions are of course not realistic. But it is easy to know the distribution of writes, and that can already give you an idea about how much you could benefit from parallel replication.

Writes are stored in binary logs but it is much easier to work with the …

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• MySQL replication monitoring 101

MySQL replication in action - Part 1: GTID & CoMySQL replication in action - Part 2 - Fan-in topologyMySQL replication in action - Part 3 - All-masters P2P topology
Introducing star topology.In all-masters P2P topologies, we have seen that we have a way of deploying a topology where all nodes are masters, and achieve better efficiency and stability than ring topologies. That …

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The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB Galera Cluster 10.0.21 and 5.5.45. These are both Stable (GA) releases.

Download MariaDB Galera Cluster 10.0.21

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Download MariaDB Galera Cluster 5.5.45

Release Notes …

Astute readers will note that InnoDB already had compression since the MySQL 5.1 plugin. We are using the terminology of ‘Page Compression’ to describe the new offering that will ship with MySQL 5.7, and ‘InnoDB Compression’ for the earlier offering.…

We are elated to announce the availability of SQLyog for Amazon Aurora Databases. You can now manage Amazon Aurora databases with SQLyog, the most powerful database manager, admin and GUI tool.

About Amazon Aurora:
Amazon Aurora is a MySQL-compatible, relational database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases.

SQLyog + Amazon Aurora:
It is very easy to connect Aurora database using SQLyog: just enter the DNS address of the Aurora instance as the host parameter, port number from the endpoint as the port parameter and key in your credentials. You can manage your Aurora databases with powerful tools like Synchronisation, Import External Data, Backup Wizard, Job Scheduler etc.

Not only these, you get all the …

We are elated to announce the availability of SQLyog for Amazon Aurora Databases. You can now manage Amazon Aurora databases with SQLyog, the most powerful database manager, admin and GUI tool.

About Amazon Aurora:
Amazon Aurora is a MySQL-compatible, relational database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases.

SQLyog + Amazon Aurora:
It is very easy to connect Aurora database using SQLyog: just enter the DNS address of the Aurora instance as the host parameter, port number from the endpoint as the port parameter and key in your credentials. You can manage your Aurora databases with powerful tools like Synchronisation, Import External Data, Backup Wizard, Job Scheduler etc.

Not only these, you get all the …

We already have seen two articles for setting up MySQL Monitoring with Nagios and Percona Monitoring Tools for Nagios. Those posts covers configuration of nagios on single instance. Though following…

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In MySQL QA Episode #12, “MySQL is Crashing, now what?,” Roel demonstrated how to collect crash-related information that will help Percona discover what the issue is that you are experiencing, and fix it.

As a Support Engineer I (Sveta) am very happy to see this post – but as a person who better understands writing than recording – I’d like to have same information, in textual form. We discussed it, and decided to do a joint blog post. Hence, this post

If you haven’t seen the video yet, or you do not have any experience with gdb, core files and crashes, I highly recommend to watch it first.

Once you have an idea of why crashes happen, what to do after it happens in your environment, and how to open a  …

Previous episodes:

• MySQL replication monitoring 101

MySQL replication in action - Part 1: GTID & CoMySQL replication in action - Part 2 - Fan-in topology


In the previous article, we saw the basics of establishing replication from multiple origins to the same destination. By extending that concept, we can deploy more complex topologies, such as the point-to-point (P2P) all-masters topology, a robust and fast …