The removal of the query cache in MySQL 8.0 improves user experience and has been celebrated by many members of the MySQL community. With this good news, obviously, Hitler isn’t happy. (Parody Video).

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/C++ 8.0.5-dmr is the next development milestone release of the MySQL Connector/C++ 8.0 series (formely 2.0 series).

Connector/C++ 8.0 can be used to access MySQL implementing Document Store or in a traditional way, using SQL queries. It allows writing both C++ applications using X DevAPI or plain C applications using XAPI.

To learn more about how to write applications using X DevAPI, see “X DevAPI User Guide”

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/x-devapi-userguide/en/

and “X DevAPI Reference” at

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/dev/connector-cpp/devapi_ref.html

For more information about using plain C XAPI see “XAPI Reference” at

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Join Percona’s Chief Evangelist, Colin Charles as he presents Securing Your MySQL/MariaDB Data on Tuesday, July 11, 2017 at 7:00 am PDT / 10:00 am EDT (UTC-7).

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This webinar will discuss the features of MySQL/MariaDB that when enabled and used improve the default usage of MySQL. Many cloud-based applications fail to:

• Use appropriate filesystem permissions
• Employ TLS/SSL for connections
• Require TLS/SSL with MySQL replication
• Use external authentication plugins (LDAP, PAM, Kerberos)
• Encrypt all your data at rest …

MySQL Connector/Node.js is a new Node.js driver for use with the X
DevAPI. This release, v8.0.7 , is the first development release of the
MySQL Connector/Node.js 8.0 series.

The X DevAPI enables application developers to write code that combines
the strengths of the relational and document models using a modern,
NoSQL-like syntax that does not assume previous experience writing
traditional SQL.

MySQL Connector/Node.js can be downloaded through npm (see
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@mysql/xdevapi for details) or from
https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/nodejs/.

To learn more about how to write applications using the X DevAPI, see
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MySQL’s multi-source replication allows you to replicate data from multiple databases into one database in parallel (at the same time). This post will explain and show you how to set up multi-source replication. (WARNING: This is a very long and detailed post. You might want to grab a sandwich and a drink.)

In most replication environments, you have one master database and one or more slave databases. This topology is used for high-availability scenarios, where the reads and writes are split between multiple servers. Your application sends the writes to the master, and reads data from the slaves. This is one way to scale MySQL horizontally for reads, as you can have more than one slave. Multi-source replication allows you to write to multiple MySQL instances, and then combine the data into one server.

Here is a quick overview of …

Docstore versus traditional MySQLI have had quite a few questions from PHP Developers who are very interested in the new MySQL Document Store versus the traditional use of MySQL with PHP. You used to have to write queries in Structured Query Language (SQL) by outing them in strings withing your PHP code. In the past I have heard many folks complain about having to use a programming language within a programming language. And several of you have just skipped all than an started using an ORM. And roughly two percent of the developers at conferences tell me they have had any formal training in SQL, relational theory, or sets!So what changes with Document Store?The first and biggest changing is that you stop writing queries in SQL. SQL is surprisingly hard for many programmers. Part of this is that SQL is a declarative language. CSS is also a declarative language. These languages describe what the desired output looks like. Most other languages …

In this blog, we’ll look at ClickHouse on its one year anniversary.

It’s been a year already since the Yandex team released ClickHouse as open source software. I’ve had an interest in this project from the very start, as I didn’t think there was an open source analytical database that could compete with industry leaders like Vertica (for example).

This was an exciting year for ClickHouse early adopters. Let’s look at what it accomplished so far.

ClickHouse initially generated interest due to the Yandex name – the most popular search engine in Russia. It wasn’t long before jaw-dropping responses popped up: guys, this thing is crazy fast! Many early adopters who tried ClickHouse were really impressed.

Fast doesn’t mean convenient …

Here at MySQL we are constantly improving both our servers and our client software by making things simple to use and understand.  An area where we want to simplify things is around the version number we use for various MySQL client, connector, and other applications like Workbench, MySQL Enterprise Backup, etc.

Basically:

• We want to make sure our users easily know which version of a connector or client works with which server version(s).
• We want to deliver support for new server features during the server DMR phase without disrupting the GA versions of the connectors.

Which Connector Version To Use?

MySQL connectors (our client libraries — Connector/C, Connector/J, Connector/Net, etc) and other clients (tools and applications — MySQL Shell, MySQL Enterprise Backup, etc) will generally release more often than the server.  Relative to upgrading a set of servers in an …

In our “MySQL on Docker” blog series, we continue our quest to make Galera Cluster run smoothly in different container environments. One of the most important things when running a database service, whether in containers or bare-metal, is to eliminate the risk of data loss. We will see how we can leverage a promising feature in Kubernetes called StatefulSet, which orchestrates container deployment in a more predictable and controllable fashion.

In our previous blog post, we showed how one can deploy a Galera Cluster within Docker with the help of Kubernetes as orchestration tool. However, it is only about deployment. Running a database in production requires more than just deployment - we need to think about monitoring, backups, upgrades, recovery from …

Our MySQL infrastructure is a critical component to GitHub. MySQL serves GitHub.com, GitHub’s API, authentication and more. Every git request touches MySQL in some way. We are tasked with keeping the data available, and maintaining its integrity. Even while our MySQL clusters serve traffic, we need to be able to perform tasks such as heavy duty cleanups, ad-hoc updates, online schema migrations, cluster topology refactoring, pooling and load balancing and more. We have the infrastructure to automate away such operations; in this post we share a few examples of how we build trust in our infrastructure through continuous testing. It is essentially how we sleep well at night.

Backups

It is incredibly important to take backups of your data. If you are not taking backups of your database, it is likely a matter of time before this will become an issue. Percona …