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Let us know what you think about Percona, and what we should be thinking about for the future. Over the last ten years, Percona has grown considerably. We’ve moved from being a strictly MySQL company,...
View ArticlePercona XtraBackup 2.4.5 is now available
Percona announces the GA release of Percona XtraBackup 2.4.5 on November 29th, 2016. You can download it from our download site and from apt and yum repositories. Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL...
View ArticleWebinar Thursday, December 8: Virtual Columns in MySQL and MariaDB
Please join Federico Razzoli, Consultant at Percona, on Thursday, December 8, 2016, at 8 AM PT / 11 AM ET (UTC – 8) as he presents Virtual Columns in MySQL and MariaDB. MariaDB 5.2 and MySQL 5.7...
View ArticleMariaDB ColumnStore
Last month, MariaDB officially released MariaDB ColumnStore, their column store engine for MySQL. This post discusses what it is (and isn’t), why it matters and how you can approach a test of it. What...
View ArticleMariaDB at Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017
In this blog, we’ll look at how we plan to represent MariaDB at Percona Live. The MariaDB Corporation is organizing a conference called M17 on the East Coast in April. Some Perconians (Peter Zaitsev,...
View ArticleA Look at MariaDB Subquery Cache
The MariaDB subquery cache feature added in MariaDB 5.3 is not widely known. Let’s see what it is and how it works. What is a subquery cache? The MariaDB subquery cache optimizes the execution of...
View ArticleNew MariaDB Dashboard in Percona Monitoring and Management Metrics Monitor
In honor of the upcoming MariaDB M17 conference in New York City on April 11-12, we have enhanced Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Metrics Monitor with a new MariaDB Dashboard and multiple new...
View ArticlePercona Live Webinar Thursday, April 6, 2017: Best Practices Migrating to...
Please join Percona’s CEO and Founder, Peter Zaitsev on April 6th, 2017 at 8:00 am PDT / 11:00 am EDT (UTC-7) as he presents Best Practices Migrating to Open Source Databases. Register Now This is a...
View ArticleAt Percona Live 2017: Many Technical MariaDB Server Sessions!
At Percona, we support MariaDB Server (in addition to MySQL, Percona Server for MySQL, MongoDB and Percona Server for MongoDB, of course!), and that is reflected in the good, high-quality technical...
View ArticleM17 Conference Observations on the Future of MariaDB
In this blog post, I’ll discuss some of my thoughts about the future of MariaDB after attending the M17 Conference. Let me start with full disclosure: I’m the CEO of Percona, and we compete with the...
View ArticlePercona Live 2017 Tutorials Day
Welcome to the first day of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference: Percona Live 2017 tutorials day! While technically the first day of the conference, this day focused on provided hands-on...
View ArticlePercona Live 2017: Day One Keynotes
Welcome to the first day of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017, and the first set of Percona Live keynotes! It’s a beautiful day in Santa Clara, but we don’t know because we’re...
View ArticlePercona Live 2017: Histograms in MySQL and MariaDB
The afternoon at Percona Live 2017 is slipping by quickly, and people are still actively looking for sessions to attend – like the session I just sat in on histograms in MySQL and MariaDB. Histograms...
View ArticlePercona Live 2017: Database Management Made Simple – Amazon RDS
Percona Live 2017 is done for Wednesday, but there was still time to get in one more talk before tonight’s Community Networking Reception – and the last one of the evening was about Amazon RDS. Darin...
View ArticleFrom Percona Live 2017: Thank You, Attendees!
From everyone at Percona and Percona Live 2017, we’d like to send a big thank you to all our sponsors, exhibitors, and attendees at this year’s conference. This year’s conference was an outstanding...
View ArticleMariaDB Handler_icp_% Counters: What They Are, and How To Use Them
In this post we’ll see how MariaDB’s Handler_icp_% counters status counters (Handler_icp_attempts and Handler_icp_matches) measure ICP-related work done by the server and storage engine layers, and how...
View ArticleICP Counters in information_schema.INNODB_METRICS
In this blog, we’ll look at ICP counters in the information_schema.INNODB_METRICS. This is part two of the Index Condition Pushdown (ICP) counters blog post series. As mentioned in the previous post,...
View ArticlePercona Monitoring and Management 1.1.4 is Now Available
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.1.4 on May 29, 2017. For installation instructions, see the Deployment Guide. This release includes experimental support for MongoDB...
View ArticleMariaDB Server 10.2 GA Release Overview
This blog post looks at the recent MariaDB Server 10.2 GA release. Congratulations to the MariaDB Foundation for releasing a generally available (GA) stable version of MariaDB Server 10.2! We’ll...
View ArticlePercona Monitoring and Management 1.1.5 is Now Available
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.1.5 on June 21, 2017. For installation instructions, see the Deployment Guide. Changes in PMM Server PMM-667: Fixed the Latency...
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