As you may know by now, MySQL 8.0.2 DMR is out ! \o/

Many features have been added (see Geir Høydalsvik‘s announcement) and of course the replication also brought new features and improvements (see this post from Luís Soares).

But some improvements in the monitoring broke the added sys view used by ProxySQL to monitor the state of a member of the group:

mysql> select * from sys.gr_member_routing_candidate_status;
+------------------+-----------+---------------------+----------------------+
| viable_candidate | read_only | transactions_behind | transactions_to_cert | …

“Spark and Ignite can complement each other very well. Ignite can provide shared storage for Spark so state can be passed from one Spark application or job to another. Ignite can also be used to provide distributed SQL with indexing that accelerates Spark SQL by up to 1,000x.”–Nikita Ivanov.

I have interviewed Nikita Ivanov,CTO of GridGain.
Main topics of the interview are Apache Ignite, Apache Spark and MySQL, and how well they perform on big data analytics.

RVZ

Q1. What are the main technical challenges of SaaS development projects?

Nikita Ivanov: SaaS requires that the applications be highly responsive, reliable and web-scale. SaaS development projects face many of the same challenges as …

When we started working with a customer they asked us to setup for them more reliable and performant MySQL database. At the time they were using Percona XtraDB cluster with ELB to balance read traffic between PXC nodes. There was no writer redundancy – if a writer node was down, the app was down. The app by the way is a Magento backed online shop. All stuff was running in AWS.

We started to design the new database architecture. The first component we threw away was ELB. A simple OLTP sysbench test showed that ELB was a bottleneck. The ELB was capable to deliver somewhat around 6800 qps while with ProxySQL the Percona XtraDB Cluster was a bottleneck. We squeezed 10k qps from ProxySQL + PXC. That basically means we got all ProxySQL feature free of charge.

But one ProxySQL instance is a SPOF. To make ProxySQL highly available we put another instance and managed it with keepalived.

Eventually the architecture looked like …

In this blog post, I’ll look at how ProxySQL Admin behaves in some unusual and unexpected ways from a MySQL perspective.

ProxySQL allows you to connect to its admin interface using the MySQL protocol and use familiar tools, like the MySQL command line client, to manage its configuration as a set of configuration tables. This ability may trick you into thinking that you’re working with a stripped-down MySQL server – and expect it to behave like MySQL. 

It would be a mistake to think this! In fact, ProxySQL embeds the SQLite database to store its configuration. As such, it behaves much closer to SQLite!

Below, I’ll show you a few things that confused me at first. All of these are as of ProxySQL 1.3.6 (in case behavior changes in the future).

Fake support for Use command

Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.18-29.20 on June 2, 2017. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories.

NOTE: You can also run Docker containers from the images in the Docker Hub repository.

NOTE: Due to new package dependency, Ubuntu/Debian users should use apt-get dist-upgrade or apt-get installpercona-xtradb-cluster-57 to upgrade.

Percona XtraDB Cluster …

Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.36-26.20 on June 2, 2017. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories.

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.36-26.20 is now the current release, based on the following:

• Percona Server 5.6.36-82.0
• Galera Replication library 3.20
• wsrep API version 26

All Percona software is open-source and free.

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In this blog post, we’ll look at how Percona XtraDB Cluster maintenance mode uses ProxySQL to take cluster nodes offline without impacting workloads.

Percona XtraDB Cluster Maintenance Mode

Since Percona XtraDB Cluster offers a high availability solution, it must consider a data flow where a cluster node gets taken down for maintenance (through isolation from a cluster or complete shutdown).

Percona XtraDB Cluster facilitated this by introducing a maintenance mode. Percona XtraDB Cluster maintenance mode reduces the number of abrupt workload failures if a node is taken down using ProxySQL (as a load balancer).

The central idea is delaying the core node action …

In this blog post, we’ll look at how ProxySQL and mirroring go together.

Overview

Let me be clear: I love ProxySQL, and I think it is a great component for expanding architecture flexibility and high availability. But not all that shines is gold! In this post, I want to correctly set some expectations, and avoid selling carbon for gold (carbon has it’s own uses, while gold has others).

First of all, we need to cover the basics of how ProxySQL manages traffic dispatch (I don’t want to call it mirroring, and I’ll explain further below).

ProxySQL receives a connection from the application, and through it we can have a simple SELECT or a more complex transaction. ProxySQL gets each query, passes them to the Query Processor, processes them, identifies if a query is mirrored, duplicates the whole MySQL session ProxySQL internal object and associates it to a mirror queue (which refer to a …

Usually application do not connect directly to Percona XtraDB Cluster, but go through a proxy – ProxySQL, for instance. However if only one proxy node is used it becomes a single point of failure. Not long ago Marco Tusa wrote about how to configure two ProxySQL nodes in front of XtraDB cluster. If deployed on EC2 instances it doesn’t work that way because Amazon doesn’t allow to assign secondary IP address on an interface.

This post describes how to configure highly available ProxySQL with keepalived, proxysql-tools and AWS Elastic Network Interface(ENI).
The application connects to a single Virtual IP. The VIP is assigned to ENI which is managed by keepalived. proxysql-tools moves ENI between …

Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.35-26.20-3 on April 13, 2017. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories.

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.35-26.20-3 is now the current release, based on the following:

• Percona Server 5.6.35-81.0
• Galera Replication library 3.20
• wsrep API version 26

All Percona software is open-source and free.

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