Today, Zend and Microsoft announced a strategic partnership that will transform developer productivity in the cloud. Before I share the details of this news, I’d like to cover some background on Zend and Microsoft’s past collaboration to provide additional context on why today’s announcement is significant for both Zend and Microsoft!

Early Stealth Relationship

In 2001, a small Microsoft SWAT team focused on winning more Web share for Windows Server reached out to the PHP Group. They invited us for a few days to Redmond with the goal of boosting PHP support for Windows. Their motivation was simple: PHP on Linux had already dominated a major part of Web share and they were interested in selling more Windows Servers into that market. Hence, PHP needed to run well on Windows Server. We made some significant improvements during the few days in Redmond, but that forward-looking team met some internal opposition for …

MySQL provides hundreds of status counters, but how do you make sense of all that monitoring data? 

If you’re in Operations and your job is to monitor the health of MySQL/MariaDB Galera Cluster or Percona XtraDB Cluster, then this webinar is for you. Setting up a Galera Cluster is fairly straightforward, but keeping it in a good shape and knowing what to look for when it’s having production issues can be a challenge.

Status counters can be tricky to read … 

• Which of them are more important than others? 
• How do you find your way in a labyrinth of different variables? 
• Which of them can make a significant difference? 
• How might a host’s health impact MySQL performance?
• How to identify problematic nodes in your cluster?

To find out more, please register for this new live webinar.

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The slides for my Improving Performance With Better Indexes presentation at Percona Live 2015 MySQL Conference and Expo are now available.

In this presentation I discuss how to identify, review and analyze SQL statements in order to create better indexes for your queries. This includes understanding the EXPLAIN syntax and how to create and identify covering and partial column indexes.

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This presentation is based on the work with a customer showing the 95% improvement of a key 15 table join query running 15,000 QPS in a 25 billion SQL statements per day …

It is my pleasure to announce that Percona has acquired Tokutek and will take over development and support for TokuDB® and TokuMX™ as well as the revolutionary Fractal Tree® indexing technology that enables those products to deliver improved performance, reliability and compression for modern Big Data applications.

At Percona we have been working with the Tokutek team since 2009, helping to improve performance and scalability. The TokuDB storage engine has been available for Percona Server for about a year, so joining forces is quite a natural step for us.

Fractal Tree indexing technology—developed by years of data science research at MIT, Stony Brook University and Rutgers University—is the new generation data structure which, for many workloads, leapfrogs traditional B-tree technology which was invented in 1972 (over 40 years ago!).  It is also often …

If you haven’t already heard, on the Tuesday morning of the 2015 Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo it was announced that Tokutek is now part of the Percona family.  This means TokuDB® for MySQL, and TokuMX™ for MongoDB are Percona products now; and that the Tokutek  team is now part of the Percona team.

Percona’s well-deserved reputation for unparalleled customer service and support in the MySQL market makes them the perfect home for Tokutek’s ground-breaking products.  And with the Tokutek acquisition, Percona can expand and extend their activities and offerings into the MongoDB market.

This is a win/win for NoSQL and MySQL fans alike.

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Tokutek is the company that productized a new and revolutionary form of database indexing designed specifically for modern, Big Data applications.  Based on data science research on new methods for high-performance data …

It is my pleasure to announce that Percona has acquired Tokutek and will take over development and support for TokuDB® and TokuMX™ as well as the revolutionary Fractal Tree® indexing technology that enables those products to deliver improved performance, reliability and compression for modern Big Data applications.

At Percona we have been working with the Tokutek team since 2009, helping to improve performance and scalability. The TokuDB storage engine has been available for Percona Server for about a year, so joining forces is quite a natural step for us.

Fractal Tree indexing technology—developed by years of data science research at MIT, Stony Brook University and Rutgers University—is the new generation data structure which, for many workloads, leapfrogs traditional B-tree technology which was invented in 1972 (over 40 years ago!).  It is also often superior to LSM indexing, especially for mixed workloads.

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Percona is pleased to announce the availability of Percona Toolkit 2.2.14.  Released April 14, 2015. Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced command-line tools to perform a variety of MySQL server and system tasks that are too difficult or complex for DBAs to perform manually. Percona Toolkit, like all Percona software, is free and open source.

This release is the current GA (Generally Available) stable release in the 2.2 series. It includes multiple bug fixes for pt-table-checksum with better support for Percona XtraDB Cluster, various other fixes, as well as continued preparation for MySQL 5.7 compatibility. Full details are below. Downloads are available  …

MySQL 5.7-RC1 is available now since the last week and you may find a lot about all the new improvement coming from our Team Blog and many other blog posts on this site as well. While in this article I'll just mention that with MySQL 5.7 all scalability limits are going more and more far! -- it's not that we resolved all of them, no, just that we become better and better ;-)

And one of the huge win coming now with MySQL 5.7-RC1 is that for the first time ever we're getting the same performance levels on a single hot table as on several tables used in parallel!

Here is the Max QPS result on the Sysbench RO Point-Select workload with 8-tables running on 40cores-HT server :

And here is the same load, but bombarding only one single table :

Now a full Sysbench OLTP_RO workload on 8-tables :
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Last week we proudly announced the first Release Candidate (RC) of MySQL 5.7. MySQL 5.7.7 includes additional enhancements and aggregates the Development Milestones Releases (DMRs) the MySQL team at Oracle previously delivered to the MySQL community. With the first Release Candidate, it’s more important than ever that we hear your feedback on the pre-GA version in order to help ensure very high quality for the GA release.

MySQL 5.7 is an extremely exciting new version of the world’s most popular open source database that is …

MySQL and Openstack deep dive, 14 April 11:30AM – 12:20PM @ Room 204

Peter Boros, Principal Architect, Percona

Most folks know that there are a number of different flavors of MySQL — standard MySQL, MariaDb, Percona XtraDb, MySQL Galera, Percona XtraDb Cluster, etc. In this talk, we hope to dispel some of these myths and give some clear information on what are the strengths and weaknesses of each of these flavors, what pitfalls to avoid when migrating between them, and what architectural information to take into account when planning your OpenStack MySQL database deployments. We will discuss replication topologies and techniques, and explain how the Galera Cluster variants differ from standard MySQL replication.

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