Percona is glad to announce the second release candidate of Percona Server 5.7.10-2 on February 8, 2016. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories.

Based on MySQL 5.7.10, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.7.10-2 is the current Release Candidate release in the Percona Server 5.7 series. All of Percona’s …

Now that we have our Percona Server Docker images, I wanted to measure the performance overhead when we run the database in the container. Since Docker promises to use a lightweight container, in theory there should be very light overhead. We need to verify that claim, however. In this post I will show the numbers for CPU and network intensive workloads, and later I will take a look at IO.

For the CPU-bound load, I will use a sysbench OLTP read-only workload with data fitting into memory (so there is no IO performed, and the execution path only goes through the network and CPU).

My server is 24 cores (including hyper-threads), with Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2643 v2 @ …

Docker is incredibly popular tool for deploying software, so we decided to provide a Percona Docker image for both Percona Server MySQL and Percona Server for MongoDB.

We want to create an easy way to try our products.

There are actually some images available from https://hub.docker.com/_/percona/, but these images are provided by Docker itself, not from Percona.

In our images, we provide all the varieties of storage engines available in Percona Server (MySQL/MongoDB).

Our images are available from https://hub.docker.com/r/percona/.

The simplest way to get going is to run the following:

docker run --name ps -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=secret -d …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.28-76.1 on January 12, 2016. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories.

Based on MySQL 5.6.28, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.6.28-76.1 is the current GA release in the Percona Server 5.6 series. Percona Server is open-source and free – …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.47-37.7 on January 12, 2016. Based on MySQL 5.5.47, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.47-37.7 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series.

Percona Server is open-source and free. Details of the release can be found in the 5.5.47-37.7 milestone on Launchpad. Downloads are available …

Percona is glad to announce the first release candidate of Percona Server 5.7.10-1 on December 14, 2015. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories.

This release contains all the bug fixes from latest Percona Server 5.6 release (currently Percona Server 5.6.27-76.0).

New …

Swift is now opensource, and it’s interesting to see Craig Federighi talk about it. This is Apple doing right, considering FaceTime is long overdue to being an open standard. People are nitpicking on Apple’s Open Source tagline, but really, this is akin to nitpicking on Mark Zuckerberg donating 99% of his Facebook stock to his new limited liability corporation charity (key: don’t look a gift horse in the mouth).

Apple has chosen to put …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.27-76.0 on December 4, 2015. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories.

Based on MySQL 5.6.27, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.6.27-76.0 is the current GA release in the Percona Server 5.6 series. Percona Server is open-source and free – …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.46-37.6 on December 4, 2015. Based on MySQL 5.5.46, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.46-37.6 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series.

Percona Server is open-source and free. Details of the release can be found in the 5.5.46-37.6 milestone on Launchpad. Downloads are available …

In my previous post Amazon Aurora – Looking Deeper, I promised benchmark results on Amazon Aurora.

There are already some results available from Amazon itself: https://d0.awsstatic.com/product-marketing/Aurora/RDS_Aurora_Performance_Assessment_Benchmarking_v1-2.pdf.

There are also some from Marco Tusa: http://www.tusacentral.net/joomla/index.php/mysql-blogs/175-aws-aurora-benchmarking-blast-or-splash.html.

Amazon used quite a small …