MySQL Performance Blog

Beware the SST In Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) I often run across users who are fearful of SSTs on their clusters. I’ve always maintained that if you can’t cope with a SST, PXC may not be right for you, but that doesn’t change the fact that SSTs with multiple Terabytes of data can be quite […]

In this post I’ll share the results of a sysbench-mongodb benchmark I performed on my server. I compared MMAP, WiredTiger, RocksDB and TokuMXse (based on MongoDB 3.0) and TokuMX (based on MongoDB 2.4) in an IO-intensive workload. The full results are available here, and below I’ll just share the summary chart: I would like to […]

Have you ever wondered what could happen if your MySQL database goes down? Although it’s evident such a crash will cause downtime – and surely some business impact in terms of revenue – can you do something to reduce this impact? The simple answer is “yes” by doing regular backups (of course) but are you […]

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.25-73.1 on July 9, 2015. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories. Based on MySQL 5.6.25, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.6.25-73.1 is the current GA release in the Percona Server 5.6 series. Percona Server is open-source […]

Welcome to MySQL QA Episode 4! In this episode we’ll look into setting up our QA Framework: percona-qa, pquery, reducer & more. 1. All about percona-qa 2. pquery [crayon-559cf4de960fc257936849/] 3. reducer.sh [crayon-559cf4de96113520388260/] 4. Short introduction to pquery framework tools The tools introduced in this episode will be covered further in next two episodes. Full-screen viewing @ […]

I noticed that in the latest release of Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC), the behavior of wsrep_RSU_method changed somewhat.  Prior to this release, the variable was GLOBAL only, meaning to use it you would: [crayon-559aa659cb497558858880/] This had the (possibly negative) side-effect that ALL DDL’s issued on this node would be affected by the setting while in […]

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.25-73.0 on July 1, 2015. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories. Based on MySQL 5.6.25, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.6.25-73.0 is the current GA release in the Percona Server 5.6 series. Percona Server is open-source […]

Like any good, thus lazy, engineer I don’t like to start things manually. Creating directories, configuration files, specify paths, ports via command line is too boring. I wrote already how I survive in case when I need to start MySQL server (here). There is also the MySQL Sandbox which can be used for the same […]

In a recent article on the Percona blog, I recommended readers to a tool called CamStudio for making technical screen recordings. The blog post was very popular and got 300+ Facebook likes in a short time. Providentially though, a reader commented that the installer (as downloaded from the project website) installed “pretty annoying adware on […]

A question I often hear when customers want to set up a production PXC cluster is: “How many nodes should we use?” Three nodes is the most common deployment, but when are more nodes needed? They also ask: “Do we always need to use an even number of nodes?” This is what we’ll clarify in […]

Last week I hosted a webinar on using MySQL in the cloud for High Availability (HA) alongside 451 Research analyst Jason Stamper. You can watch the recording and also download the slides (free) here. Just click the “Register” button at the end of that page. We had several excellent questions and we didn’t have time […]

In a post, written a few months ago, I found that using EXT4 transactions with the “data=journal” mount option, improves the write performance significantly, by 55%, without putting data at risk. Many people commented on the post mentioning they were not able to reproduce the results and thus, I decided to further investigate in order […]