ProxySQL 2.0.3, released by ProxySQL, is now available for download in the Percona Repository along with an updated version of Percona’s proxysql-admin tool.

ProxySQL is a high-performance proxy, currently for MySQL,  and database servers in the MySQL ecosystem (like Percona Server for MySQL and MariaDB). It acts as an intermediary for client requests seeking resources from the database. René Cannaò created ProxySQL for DBAs as a means of solving complex replication topology issues.

The ProxySQL 2.0.3 source and binary packages available from the …

Less than one month left until Percona Live. This time the Committee work was a bit unusual. Instead of having one big committee for the whole conference we had a few mini-committees, each responsible for a track. Each independent mini-committee, in turn, had a leader who was responsible for the whole process. I led the MariaDB track. In this post, I want to explain how we worked, which topics we have chosen, and why.

For MariaDB, we had seven slots: five for 50-minutes talks, two for 25-minutes talks and 19 submissions. We had to reject two out of three proposals. We also had to decide how many topics the program should cover. My aim here was to use the MariaDB track to demonstrate as many MariaDB unique features as …

We are pleased to announce the launch of PMM 2.0.0-alpha2, Percona’s second Alpha release of our long-awaited PMM 2 project! In this release, you’ll find support for MongoDB Metrics and Query Analytics – watch for sharp edges as we expect to find a lot of bugs!  We’ve also expanded our existing support of MySQL from our first Alpha to now include MySQL Slow Log as a data source for Query Analytics, which enhances the Query Detail section to include richer query metadata.

• MongoDB Metrics – You can now launch PMM 2 against MongoDB and gather metrics and query data!
• MongoDB Query Analytics – Data source from MongoDB Profiler is here!
• MySQL Query Analytics
  • Queries source – MySQL Slow Log is here!
  • Sorting and more …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.4.14 on May 1, 2019. You can download it from our download site and apt and yum repositories.

Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for companies with large data sets and mission-critical applications that cannot tolerate long periods of downtime. Offered free as an open source solution, it …

Last week, Oracle reported on the list of MySQL Community Contributors for 2019 and we’re proud to say that five serving Perconians made it to the list of 19 people recognized as such. Entries are nominated by the MySQL community and their nominations are assessed against six criteria by a volunteer committee of community mavens.

1. The most active code contributor
2. Bug reporter
3. The most active MySQL blogger
4. People who plays very active role in translation/documentation of MySQL articles
5. People who provides feedback on DMR releases, Labs releases, or change proposals
6. Anyone in the community who worked their butt off or did really useful work that you feel should be thanked publicly

The members of Percona who will be proudly wearing their community …

This year we’re having a different concept for Percona Live conferences, which started at Percona Live Europe 2018 last fall. This is an approach practiced by many other organizations by having separate track for MySQL®, MongoDB®, MariaDB®, or PostgreSQL and more.

Having many tracks in this big Open Source Database Conference meant that one track steering committee could not be asked to handle all the talks for each track. So we formed several mini-committees to make sure that the submissions to each of the tracks received the right level of attention from the right kind …

We are pleased to announce the launch of PMM 2.0.0-alpha1, Percona’s first Alpha release of our long-awaited PMM 2 project! We focused exclusively on MySQL support in our first Alpha (because we wanted to show progress sooner rather than later), and you’ll find updated MySQL dashboards along with enhancements to Query Analytics. We’ve also added better visibility regarding which services are registered with PMM Server, the client-side addition of a new agent called pmm-agent, and finally PMM Server is now exposing an API!

• Query Analytics
  • Support for large environments – default view all queries from all instances
  • Filtering – display only the results matching filters – MySQL schema name, MySQL server instance
  • Sorting and more columns – now sort by any …

There’s just one week to go before the first of this year’s Percona University events in South America. We’re really pleased with the lineup for all three events. We’re also incredibly happy with the response that we have had from the community. While we realize that a free event is… well… free… you are still giving up your time and travel. We place great value on that and we’re making sure that you’ll be hearing quality technical talks from Percona and our guest speakers. Most of the talks will be presented in Spanish – Portuguese in Brazil – although slides will be made available in English.

In fact, the events have been so popular that it’s quite possible that by the time you read this we’ll be operating a wait list for Montevideo …

Many of our regular attendees already know that the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference is not all about Percona software or, indeed, all about Percona. However, with moving to a new city—Austin, TX— we have realized that it’s something we ought to shout out loud and clear. Our conference really is technology agnostic! As long as submissions were related to open source databases then they were candidate for selection.

We have thirteen tracks at this year’s conference including a track entitled “Other Open Source Databases” which we are presenting alongside tracks dedicated to MySQL®, …

Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster Operator 0.3.0 early access.

The Percona XtraDB Cluster Operator simplifies the deployment and management of Percona XtraDB Cluster in a Kubernetes or OpenShift environment. It extends the Kubernetes API with a new custom resource for deploying, configuring and managing the application through the whole life cycle.

You can install the Percona XtraDB Cluster Operator on Kubernetes or OpenShift. While the operator does not support all the Percona XtraDB Cluster features in this early access release, instructions on how to install and configure it …