Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.35-26.20 on March 10, 2017. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories.
Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.35-26.20 is now the current release, based on the following:
All Percona software is open-source and free. Details of this …
[Read more]UPDATE: Some of the language in the original post was considered overly-critical of Oracle by some community members. This was not my intent, and I’ve modified the language to be less so. I’ve also changed term “synchronous” (which the use of is inaccurate and misleading) to “virtually synchronous.” This term is more accurate and already used by both technologies’ founders, and should be less misleading.
I also wanted to thank Jean-François Gagné for pointing out the incorrect sentence about multi-threaded slaves in Group Replication, which I also corrected accordingly.
In today’s blog post, I will briefly compare two major virtually synchronous replication technologies available today for MySQL.
More Than Asynchronous Replication
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[Read more]This blog post is my overview of Group Replication technology.
With Oracle clearly entering the “open source high availability solutions” arena with the release of their brand new Group Replication solution, I believe it is time to review the quality of the first GA (production ready) release.
TL;DR: Having examined the technology, it is my conclusion that Oracle seems to have released the GA version of Group Replication too early. While the product is definitely “working prototype” quality, the release seems rushed and unfinished. I found a significant number of issues, and I would personally not recommend it for production use.
It is obvious that Oracle is trying hard to ship technology to compete with …
[Read more]Welcome to another post in the series of Percona Live featured tutorial speakers blogs! In these blogs, we’ll highlight some of the tutorial speakers that will be at this year’s Percona Live conference. We’ll also discuss how these tutorials can help you improve your database environment. Make sure to read to the end to get a special Percona Live 2017 registration bonus!
In this Percona Live featured tutorial, we’ll meet Frédéric Descamps, MySQL Community Manager at Oracle. Frédéric is probably better known in the community as “LeFred” (Twitter: @lefred)! His tutorial is …
[Read more]In this blog post, we’ll look at how to set up ProxySQL for high availability.
During the last few months, we’ve had a lot of opportunities to present and discuss a very powerful tool that will become more and more used in the architectures supporting MySQL: ProxySQL.
ProxySQL is becoming more flexible, solid, performant and used every day (http://www.proxysql.com/ and recent http://www.proxysql.com/compare). You can use ProxySQL for high availability.
The tool is a winner when compared to similar ones, and we should all have a clear(er) idea of how to integrate it in our architectures in order to achieve the best results.
The first thing to keep in mind is that ProxySQL doesn’t natively support any high availability solution. We can setup a cluster of …
[Read more]Join Percona’s Chief Evangelist Colin Charles on Wednesday, January 18, 2017, at 7:00 am (PST) / 10:00 am (EST) (UTC-8) as he presents “Lessons from Database Failures.”
MySQL failures at scale can teach a great deal. MySQL failures can lead to a discussion about such topics as high availability (HA), geographical redundancy and automatic failover. In this webinar, Colin will present case study material (how automatic failover caused Github to go offline, why Facebook uses assisted failover rather than fully automated failover, and other scenarios) to look at how the MySQL world is making things better. One way, for example, is using …
[Read more]In this blog series, I will discuss common questions I receive as a database Solutions Engineer at Percona. In this role, I speak with a wide array of MySQL and MongoDB users responsible for both extremely large and complex environments to smaller single-server environments. Typically we are contacted when the customer is about to embark on an architecture migration or redesign, or they have performance issues in their production environment. The purpose of this blog is to put together a list of common questions I field while speaking with active MySQL and MongoDB users.
We are considering a migration to AWS. What solution is right for us: EC2, RDS, or Aurora?
We get this question a lot. Moving to AWS is a hot trend. Fellow Solution Engineer Rick Golba wrote …
[Read more]In this blog I will provide answers to the questions and queries that some of you have raised during the webinar on Nov 17th.
I would like to say thank you to all of the audience who attended the talk on November 17, 2016. You can also check the recording and slides here.
Q. How is storage distribution done across the node?
A. Each node has independent storage and other resources. There is no sharing of resource. Only the write-sets are replicated.
Q. If write-set propagation fails in some manner is there any retry mechanism?
A. write-set are written to …
[Read more]This blog discusses some important aspects of GCache.
Why do we need GCache?
Percona XtraDB Cluster is a multi-master topology, where a transaction executed on one node is replicated on another node(s) of the cluster. This transaction is then copied over from the group channel to Galera-Cache followed by apply action.
The cache can be discarded immediately once the transaction is applied, but retaining it can help promote a node as a DONOR node serving write-sets for a newly booted node.
So in short, GCache acts as a temporary storage for replicated transactions.
How is GCache managed?
Naturally, the first choice to cache these write-sets is to use memory allocated pool, which is governed by gcache.mem_store. However, this is deprecated and buggy and shouldn’t be used.
Next …
[Read more]Join Percona’s Percona XtraDB Cluster Lead Software Engineer Krunal Bauskar for a webinar on Thursday, November 17, 2016, at 7:30 am PST on MySQL High Availability with Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.
Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7 is our brand new MySQL 5.7 compatible Galera-based high availability (HA) solution. Whether you’re new to MySQL clustering technology, or experienced with Galera-based replication, this tutorial provides great insights into working with the software, …
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