While we often run MySQL on larger scale systems in Production for Test and Dev, sometimes we want to run MySQL on the tiniest cloud instances possible or just run it on our laptops. In these cases, MySQL 8 and MySQL 5.7 memory consumption is quite important.

In comparing MySQL 8 vs MySQL 5.7, you should know that MySQL 8 uses more memory. Basic tests on a 1GB VM with MySQL 8 and MySQL 5.7 (actually they’re Percona Server versions) running the same light workload, I see the following vmstat output:

MySQL 5.7 vmstat output

procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ------cpu-----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa st
 4  0  65280  71608  58352 245108    0    0  2582  3611 1798 8918 18  9 11 33 30
 4  0  65280  68288  58500 247512    0    0  2094  2662 1769 8508 19  9 13 30 29
 3  1  65280  67780  58636 249656    0    0  2562  3924 1883 9323 20  9  7 37 27
 4  1  65280 …

ProxySQL 2.0.5, released by ProxySQL, is now available for download in the Percona Repository along with 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.

This release includes ProxySQL 2.0.5 which fixes many bugs and introduces a number of features …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 8.0.7 on August 7, 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 …

We are glad to announce the 1.1.0 release of the  Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster.

The Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster automates the lifecycle and provides a consistent Percona XtraDB Cluster instance. The Operator can be used to create a Percona XtraDB Cluster, or scale an existing Cluster, and contains the necessary Kubernetes settings.

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

The Operator source code is available …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.4.15 on July 10, 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 …

I think it is often confusing to compare upstream MySQL and Percona Server for MySQL, and some helpful information can be found in the introductory notes. But what does that really mean for an ordinary DBA, especially if none of the known big extra features are important in a particular use case?

In this article, I would like to start a series of short blog posts highlighting small, often less known, but potentially useful features, available in Percona Server for MySQL. Let’s start with a relatively new feature.

Limit the disk space used by binary logs problem

Historically, dealing with binary logs and the disk space used by them was quite challenging. The only thing that let you control this is the …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.26-31.37 on June 26, 2019. Binaries are available from the downloads section or from our software repositories.

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.26-31.37 is now the current release, based on the following:

• Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.26-29
• Codership WSREP API release 5.7.25
• Codership Galera library 3.26

All Percona software is open-source and free.

Bugs Fixed

• PXC-2480: In some …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.44-28.34 on June 19, 2019. Binaries are available from the downloads section or from our software repositories.

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.44-28.34 is now the current release, based on the following:

• Percona Server 5.6.44-86.0
• Codership WSREP API release 5.6.43
• Codership Galera library 3.26

All Percona software is open-source and free.

Bugs Fixed

• PXC-2480: In some …

Recently, I received a support request where the customer wanted to convert an INTEGER column to BIGINT on two tables. These tables are related by a foreign key, and it is a 3 node PXC cluster. These tables are 20GB and 82 GB in size and DDL’s on such tables in a production environment is always a challenge. We have options like direct ALTER or using pt-online-schema-change to get this done, but this is a very special case where none of them will be able to do this DDL. To demonstrate why this is so, please follow the table schema and the example below about DDL queries on foreign key columns. In the end, I will discuss an easy workaround, too.

Please take a look at table schema before reading further. In the below schema, the product_catalog_id column from the product_details table refers to catalog_id column from the product_catalog table. Both these fields are INT(11) …

Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 packages have been released into our repositories.  Recent versions of Percona Server for MySQL, Percona XtraDB Cluster, Percona XtraBackup,  Percona Server for MongoDB, Percona Toolkit, and the PMM Client can now be automatically installed via Redhats dnf utility.

How to install RHEL 8

Visit https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/enterprise-linux and follow the instructions.  If you have a paid subscription,  you will be able to download the RHEL 8 DVD ISO and use this to install the operating system on a physical or virtual machine.   You may also signup for a free 30-day trial.

Once installed, you will need to register the instance with Redhat using subscription-manager in order to update your instance.   While logged in …