Percona announces the GA release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.20-18 on December 14, 2017. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. You can also run Docker containers from the images in the Docker Hub repository.

Based on MySQL 5.7.20, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.20-18 is the current GA release in the Percona Server for MySQL 5.7 series. …

Join Percona’s Product Manager Michael Coburn as he presents a Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Demonstration on Wednesday, October 11, 2017, at 10:00 am PDT / 1:00 pm EDT (UTC-7).

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How can you optimize database performance if you can’t see what’s happening? Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a free, open source database troubleshooting and performance optimization platform for MySQL and MongoDB. PMM uses Metrics Monitor (Grafana + Prometheus) for visualization of data points. It also has Query Analytics (QAN), to help …

One of the most exciting features shipped in the Percona Monitoring and Management 1.3.0 (PMM) release is support for MyRocks metrics via a new Metrics Monitor dashboard titled MySQL MyRocks Metrics. The support in PMM follows the recent Percona Server for MySQL release 5.7.19 from September 6, where Percona delivered an EXPERIMENTAL version of MyRocks for non-Production usage.

The MyRocks storage engine from Facebook is based on RocksDB, a persistent key-value store for fast storage environments. MyRocks is optimized for fast storage and combines outstanding space and write efficiency with acceptable read performance. As a result, …

Black coffee was flowing this morning for day two Percona Live Europe 2017 Keynotes after many of the delegates had spent a good few hours the night before enjoying Irish hospitality at the Community Dinner.

So today Laurie Coffin, Chief Marketing Officer for Percona, introduced proceedings for day two and later also took to the stage for a Q&A session with authors Laine Campbell and Charity Majors. More on that later…

State of the Dolphin

WATCH: Geir Høydalsvik, Development Director for MySQL at Oracle, delivers his keynote “State of the Dolphin”

First up Geir Høydalsvik, Development Director for MySQL at Oracle, delivered juicy tidbits of what to expect in MySQL 8.0 (beyond what you see in the current Developer Milestone Releases). …

Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.3.0 on September 26, 2017.

Percona Monitoring and Management 1.3.0 introduces basic support for the MyRocks storage engine. There is a special dashboard in Metrics Monitor that presents the essential metrics of MyRocks as separate graphs. Also, Metrics Monitor graphs now feature on-demand descriptions that remain visible as long as hover over them.

For example, this graph helps you visualize MyRocks database operations of Next and Seek attributes:

There are many improvements to QAN (Query Analytics) both in the user interface design and in …

Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.

Percona Live Europe 2017 in Dublin

Have you registered for Percona Live Europe Dublin? We have announced some awesome keynotes, and our sponsor list is growing (and we’re always looking for more!).

There will also be a community dinner (Tuesday, September …

Percona, in collaboration with Facebook, is proud to announce the first experimental release of MyRocks in Percona Server for MySQL 5.7, with packages.

Back in October of 2016, Peter Zaitsev announced that we were going to port MyRocks from Facebook MySQL to Percona Server for MySQL.

Then in April 2017, Vadim Tkachenko announced the availability of experimental builds of Percona Server for MySQL with the MyRocks storage engine.

Now in September 2017, we are pleased to announce the first full experimental release of MyRocks with packages for Percona Server for MySQL …

“To be competitive with non-open-source cloud deployment options, open source databases need to invest in “ease-of-use.” There is no tolerance for complexity in many development teams as we move to “ops-less” deployment models.” –Peter Zaitsev

I have interviewed Peter Zaitsev, Co-Founder and CEO of Percona.
In this interview, Peter talks about the Open Source Databases market; the Cloud; the scalability challenges at Facebook; compares MySQL, MariaDB, and MongoDB; and presents Percona’s contribution to the MySQL and MongoDB ecosystems.

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Q1. What are the main technical challenges in obtaining application scaling?

Peter Zaitsev: When it comes to scaling, there are different types. There is a Facebook/Google/Alibaba/Amazon scale: these …

Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.

Percona Live Europe Dublin

Have you registered for Percona Live Europe Dublin? We’ve more or less finalized the schedule, and the conference grid looks 100% full. We’re four weeks away, so I suggest you register ASAP!

I should also mention that no event can be pulled off without sponsors, so thank you sponsors of Percona Live Europe 2017. I sincerely hope to see more sign up. Feel free to ask me more about it, or just check out our sponsor prospectus.

Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.19-17 on August 31, 2017. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. You can also run Docker containers from the images in the Docker Hub repository.

Based on MySQL 5.7.19, and including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server for MySQL …