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Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 1.6.0 Is Now Available
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 1.6.0. In this release, Percona Monitoring and Management Grafana metrics are available in the Advanced Data Exploration...
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Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 1.6.1 Is Now Available
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.6.1. This release contains fixes to bugs found after Percona Monitoring and Management 1.6.0 was released. Bug fixes PMM-1660: QAN...
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Percona Monitoring and Management 1.7.0 (PMM) Is Now Available
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.7.0. (PMM ) is a free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL and MongoDB performance. You can run PMM in your...
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Tutorial Schedule for Percona Live 2018 Is Live
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,...
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This Week in Data with Colin Charles 28: Percona Live, MongoDB Transactions...
Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. In case you missed last week’s column, don’t forget to...
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Percona Live 2018 Open Source Database Conference Full Schedule Now Available
The conference session schedule for the seventh annual Percona Live 2018 Open Source Database Conference, taking place April 23-25 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA is now live...
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Webinar Tuesday February 27, 2018: Monitoring Amazon RDS with Percona...
Please join Percona’s Build / Release Engineer, Mykola Marzhan, as he presents Monitoring Amazon RDS with Percona Monitoring and Management on February 27, 2018, at 7:00 am PDT (UTC-8) / 10:00 am EDT...
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Percona Live 2018 Featured Talk: How to Use JSON in MySQL Wrong with Bill Karwin
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...
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Binlog and Replication Improvements in Percona Server for MySQL
Due to continuous development and improvement, Percona Server for MySQL incorporates a number of improvements related to binary log handling and replication. This results in replication specifics,...
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Webinar Tues 6/26: MariaDB Server 10.3
Please join Percona’s Chief Evangelist, Colin Charles on Tuesday, June 26th, 2018, as he presents MariaDB Server 10.3 at 7:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 10:00 AM EDT (UTC-4). Register Now MariaDB Server 10.3...
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This Week in Data with Colin Charles 12: Open Source Summit Europe and Open...
Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. This week was exciting from a Percona exposure...
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MySQL vs. MariaDB: Reality Check
In this blog, we’ll provide a comparison between MySQL vs. MariaDB (including Percona Server for MySQL). Introduction The goal of this blog post is to evaluate, at a higher level, MySQL, MariaDB and...
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This Week in Data with Colin Charles 13: MariaDB, M18 and YugaByte
Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. This week we saw the closing of the CFPs for MariaDB’s...
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Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2018 Call for Papers Is Now Open!
Announcing the opening of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2018 in Santa Clara, CA, call for papers. It will be open from now until December 22, 2017. Our theme is “Championing Open...
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Sudoku Recursive Common Table Expression Solver
In this blog post, we’ll look at a solving Sudoku using MySQL 8.0 recursive common table expression. Vadim was recently having a little Saturday morning fun solving Sudoku using MySQL 8. The whole idea...
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Webinar Wednesday, December 13, 2017: Open Source Database Software Year in...
Join Percona’s Chief Evangelist, Colin Charles as he presents 2017 Year in Review for Open Source Database Software on Wednesday, December 13, 2017 at 7:00 am PST / 10:00 am EST (UTC-8). Register Here...
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Get Your Percona Live 2018 Tickets at the Super Saver Rate Now (Before Time...
Get your Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2018 Super Saver tickets now. The countdown is on for the annual Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2018! The conference takes place in...
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Percona Monitoring and Management 1.5.3 Is Now Available
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.5.3. This release contains fixes for bugs found after the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.5.2, as well as some...
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Percona Database Performance Blog Year in Review: Top Blog Posts
Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2017. The closing of a year lends itself to looking back. And making lists. With the Percona Database Performance Blog,...
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Sneak Peek of the Percona Live 2018 Open Source Database Conference Breakout...
Take a look at the sneak peek of the breakout sessions for the Percona Live 2018 Open Source Database Conference, taking place April 23-25, 2018 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara,...
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This Week in Data with Colin Charles 10: MariaDB and Upcoming Appearances
Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. Beyond spending time getting ready for Velocity and Open...
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This Week in Data with Colin Charles 11: Velocity EU London and Open Source...
Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. I spent all of this week at O’Reilly Velocity EU London....
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MariaDB Track at Percona Live
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...
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Webinar 9/17: Percona XtraBackup vs Mariabackup vs MySQL Enterprise Backup
Please join Percona Senior Support Engineer Juan Pablo Arruti as he presents his talk “Percona XtraBackup vs Mariabackup vs MySQL Enterprise Backup” on Tuesday, September 17th, 2019 at 10:00 AM PDT...
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Use MySQL Without a Password (and Still be Secure)
Some say that the best password is the one you don’t have to remember. That’s possible with MySQL, thanks to the auth_socket plugin and its MariaDB version unix_socket. Neither of these plugins is new,...
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PMM 2.2 Released with Full Support for Amazon RDS and Aurora
Percona Monitoring and Management 2.2 (PMM) was released on December 24th with new features and updates designed to help you more easily manage and monitor your open source databases across your...
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Webinar 2/6: MySQL 8 vs. MariaDB 10.4
At the moment, MySQL 8 and MariaDB 10.4 are the latest versions of the corresponding database management systems. Each of these DBMS has a unique set of features. For example, specific MariaDB features...
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Observability Differences Between MySQL 8 and MariaDB 10.4
I did a MariaDB Observability talk at MariaDB Day in Brussels, which I roughly based on the MySQL 8 Observability talk I gave earlier in the year. This process pushed me to contrast MySQL and MariaDB...
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A Hidden Gem in MySQL: MyRocks
In this blog post, we will share some experiences with the hidden gem in MySQL called MyRocks, a storage engine for MySQL’s famous pluggable storage engine system. MyRocks is based on RocksDB which is...
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MariaDB S3 Engine: Implementation and Benchmarking
MariaDB 10.5 has an excellent engine plugin called “S3”. The S3 storage engine is based on the Aria code and the main feature is that you can directly move your table from a local device to S3 using...
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ClickHouse and ColumnStore in the Star Schema Benchmark
There were two new releases in the OpenSource Analytical Databases space, which made me want to evaluate how they perform in the Star Schema Benchmark. I covered Star Schema Benchmarks a few times...
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Checkpointing in MySQL and MariaDB
Continuing with the checkpointing topic I restarted a month ago with MongoDB and followed with PostgreSQL, I wanted to check how MySQL and MariaDB perform. It was actually some time when I last looked...
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How MySQL and MariaDB Perform on NVMe Storage
MySQL and MariaDB on NVMe Storage – The Great Equalizer Continuing with the checkpointing topic I restarted a month ago with MongoDB, followed with PostgreSQL, and then with MySQL and MariaDB on...
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How MySQL 8.0.21 and MariaDB 10.5.4 Perform in IO-Bound Scenarios on SATA SSD...
Continuing with the same topic and evaluating new versions of MariaDB and MySQL on Enterprise SSD Storage and How MySQL and MariaDB Perform on NVMe Storage, this time let’s take a look at how MySQL...
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The Road Story of a MyRocks/MariaDB Migration
This post has been written in collaboration with Nicolas Modalvsky of e-planning. Nicolas and I recently worked together on a tuning engagement involving MyRocks on MariaDB. While it is easy to find...
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Evaluating Performance Improvements in MariaDB 10.5.5
Recently, I published a series of posts on MySQL and MariaDB, where MariaDB 10.5.4 does not necessarily perform well in some scenarios: How MySQL and MariaDB Perform on NVMe Storage Checkpointing in...
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Exciting and New Features in MariaDB 10.5
MariaDB 10.5 was released in June 2020 and it will be supported until June 2025. This is the current stable version and comes with more exciting new features. In this blog, I am going to explain the...
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Webinar January 20: MariaDB Observability
Don’t miss out! Join Peter Zaitsev, Percona CEO, as he discusses MariaDB observability! A broken MariaDB means a broken application, so maintaining insights in MariaDB operational performance is...
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Deploying Any Version of Leading Open Source Databases for Tests and Experiments
I want to present a tool for running a specific version of open source databases in a single instance, replication setups, and Kubernetes. AnyDbVer deploys MySQL/MariaDB/MongoDB/PostgreSQL for testing...
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MariaDB 10.9 Quick Peek
MariaDB 10.9 is a preview release of the popular open source database server and is considered alpha level code (pronounced: Not for production). It offers a glimpse of the evolution of the product and...
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