MySQL, coupled with the InnoDB engine, provides full ACID compliance. With the addition of “eXtended Architecture” (XA) technology, they can all act in a distributed atomic environment.

In distributed systems, several different technologies, platforms and devices may need to act on separate sets of data atomically. These backend datasets can exist side by side in a datacenter, or across oceans. There can be multiple datasets where atomicity is a necessity. Foreign engines could completely control these datasets, with no concept of cross communication. The XA standard was specified by the Open Group to describe distributed transaction processing. This “eXtended Architecture” describes the relationship between a transaction manager and a transaction resource. You can find the specification HERE.

Transactions are:

• ATOMIC, committed as a …

In this blog post, I’m going to revisit the ProxySQL Query Rewrite feature. You may have seen me talking about possible use case scenarios in the past few conferences, but the reason I’m starting with this is that query rewriting was the original intention for building ProxySQL.

Why would you need to rewrite a query?

• You’ve identified a query that’s causing bottleneck or slowness
• A special operation requires query routing
• You cannot modify application code

So here we have a case of a bad query hitting the backend database. You as a DBA have identified the query as causing severe slowdown, which could lead to a site-wide outage. This query needs to be optimized, and you have asked the developer …

Percona Live 2018 is moving along, and the first person I got a chance to talk with is Michael Demmer, Senior Staff Engineer at Slack. His talk was on Migrating to Vitess at (Slack Scale).

MySQL is the backbone of Slack’s data storage infrastructure. It handles billions of queries per day across thousands of sharded database hosts. Slack is migrating this system to use Vitess’ flexible sharding and topology management instead of simple application-based shard routing and manual administration. This effort aims to provide an architecture that scales to meet the growing demands of our largest customers and features while under pressure to maintain a stable and performant service.

This talk presented the core motivations behind our decision, why Vitess won out as the best option, and how Slack laid the groundwork for the …

It is a great today for whole MySQL community: MySQL 8.0 was just released as GA!

Geir Høydalsvik has a great summary in his “What’s New in MySQL 8.0” blog post. You can find additional information about MySQL 8.0 Replication and MySQL 8.0 Document Store that is also worth reading.

If you can’t wait to upgrade to MySQL 8.0, please make sure to read the  …

We’ve been searching for a great venue for Percona Live Europe 2018, and I am thrilled to announce we’ll be hosting it in Frankfurt, Germany! Please block November 5-7, 2018 on your calendar now and plan to join us at the Radisson Blu Frankfurt for the premier open source database conference.

We’re in the final days of organizing for the Percona Live 2018 in Santa Clara. You can still purchase tickets for an amazing lineup of keynote speakers, tutorials and sessions. We have ten tracks, including MySQL, MongoDB, Cloud, PostgreSQL, Containers and Automation, Monitoring and Ops, and Database Security. Major areas of focus at the conference will include:

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In this blog post, we’ll compare the performance of pattern matching queries vs. full-text indexes.

In my previous blog post, I looked for a solution on how we can search only a part of the email address and how can we make faster queries where the condition is email LIKE '%n.pierre%'. I showed two possible ways that could work. Of course, they had some pros and cons as well but were more efficient and faster than a like '%n.prierre%'.

But you could also ask why I would bother with this? Let’s add a FULLTEXT index, and everybody is happy! Are you sure about that? I’m not. Let’s investigate and test a bit. (We have some nice blog posts that explain how FULLTEXT …

In this blog post, we’ll show that you can plot MySQL data in real time using Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM).

In my previous blog post, I showed how we could load into any metrics, benchmarks into MySQL and visualize it with PMM. But that’s not all! We can even visualize most any kind of data from MySQL in real time. I am falling in love with the MySQL plugin for Grafana — it just makes things so easy and smooth.

This graph shows us the number of visitors to a website in real …

Please join Percona’s Principal Support Engineer, Sveta Smirnova, as she presents Effective Testing for Live Applications on March 29, 2018, at 10:00 am PDT (UTC-7) / 1:00 pm EDT (UTC-4).

When an application is hit with trouble in a live production environment, it is often difficult to:

• Repeat a problematic scenario without the risk of making things worse
• Find which query or sequence of actions caused the issue
• Prepare a dataset to share with the support team that they can use to investigate the problem

At the same time, it is not possible to solve troubles without understanding what caused them. This is why it is necessary to clearly …

Welcome to the first interview blog for the upcoming Percona Live 2018. Each post in this series highlights a Percona Live 2018 featured talk that will be at the conference and gives a short preview of what attendees can expect to learn from the presenter.

This blog post highlights Bryana Knight, Platform Engineer at GitHub. Her talk is titled Scaling a High-Traffic Database: Moving Tables Across Clusters. Facing an immediate need to distribute load, GitHub came up with creative ways to move a significant amount of traffic off of their main MySQL cluster – with no user impact. In our conversation, we …

Percona has revealed the line-up of in-depth tutorials for the Percona Live 2018 Open Source Database Conference, taking place April 23-25, 2018 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif. Secure your spot now with Advanced Registration prices (available until March 4, 2018). Sponsorship opportunities for the conference are still available.

Percona Live 2018 Open Source Database Conference is the premier open source database event. The theme for the upcoming conference is “Championing Open Source Databases,” with a range of topics on …