Percona Server 5.6: Enterprise-Grade MySQL / PLMCE 2014
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Percona Server 5.6 is an enhanced, open-source drop-in replacement for MySQL, known for its additional features, bug fixes, and compatibility. It offers enterprise-grade functionalities such as backups through Percona XtraBackup, security enhancements, and improved performance metrics. The document also highlights the historical release timeline of Percona Server versions and outlines its benefits for database administrators and cloud environments.
Percona Server 5.6: Enterprise-Grade MySQL / PLMCE 2014
- 1. Percona Server 5.6 Enterprise-Grade MySQL Laurynas Biveinis 2014-04-04
- 2. Agenda • What is Percona Server • History of Percona Server releases • Percona Server 5.6 as MySQL EE – Backups, HA, performance, security • Percona Server for DBAs and cloud • Percona Server performance 2
- 3. What is Percona Server • An enhanced, free drop-in for MySQL – MySQL: same features. – Enhanced: additional bugfixes and features. – Free / open source. – Drop-in. ● Little to none work to update your applications ● Percona's committment to follow MySQL releases – XtraDB: enhanced InnoDB – How do we decide what features to add? 3
- 4. History of Percona Server Releases ● Current: 5.1, 5.5, and 5.6 series following Oracle release series ● The following pages will show release dates for first releases for a minor version number ● Percona might make more releases than that: e.g. 5.6.16-64.0, 5.6.16-64.1 4
- 5. History of Percona Server Releases 5 MySQL Percona Server Days 5.1.68 2013-02-05 2013-03-14 37 5.1.69 2013-04-18 2013-06-10 53 5.1.70 2013-06-03 2013-07-03 30 5.1.71 2013-08-01 2013-08-27 26 5.1.72 2013-09-20 2013-10-28 38 5.1.73 2013-12-03 2013-12-20 17 Average: 33.5
- 6. History of Percona Server Releases 6 MySQL Percona Server Days 5.5.30 2013-02-05 2013-03-07 30 5.5.31 2013-04-18 2013-05-24 36 5.5.32 2013-06-03 2013-07-02 29 5.5.33 2013-07-31 2013-08-27 27 5.5.34 2013-09-20 2013-10-28 38 5.5.35 2013-12-03 2013-12-20 17 5.5.36 2014-01-31 2014-03-10 38 Average: 30.7
- 7. History of Percona Server Releases 7 MySQL Percona Server Days 5.6.10 2013-02-05 5.6.13 2013-07-31 2013-10-07 68 5.6.14 2013-09-20 2013-10-24 34 5.6.15 2013-12-03 2013-12-19 16 5.6.16 2014-01-31 2014-03-10 38 Average: 39.0
- 8. Percona Server for Enterprise: Backups • Percona XtraBackup: hot online backups • Percona XtraBackup + Percona Server – Unlocks extra backup features – Not available with MySQL – Fast incremental backups ● http://bit.ly/psbmpdoc – Backups that block the server less ● http://bit.ly/psbpklocks 8
- 9. Percona Server for Enterprise: Scaling 9 XtraDB Cluster Node XtraDB Cluster Node XtraDB Cluster Node Percona XtraDB Cluster Galera Replication Library Percona XtraDB Cluster Percona Server
- 10. Percona Server for Enterprise: Scaling 10 Percona Server Application reads Application writes
- 11. Percona Server for Enterprise: Scaling 11 Percona Server Application reads Application writes Percona Server Percona Server
- 12. Percona Server for Enterprise: Scaling 12 XtraDB Cluster Node Application reads Application writes XtraDB Cluster Node XtraDB Cluster Node
- 13. Percona Server for Enterprise: Thread Pool 13 • Insurance against traffic spikes • An alternative to the corresponding plugin in MySQL EE • Originated at MariaDB • Improved at Percona • http://bit.ly/pstp1, http://bit.ly/pstpool2, http://bit.ly/pstpool3
- 14. Percona Server for Enterprise: Thread Pool 14
- 15. Percona Server for Enterprise: Security 15 • PAM plugin for external auth • An alternative to the corresponding plugin in MySQL EE • Developed jointly with MariaDB • http://bit.ly/pspam
- 16. Percona Server for Enterprise: Security 16 Percona Server mysql.user table
- 17. Percona Server for Enterprise: Security 17 Percona Server mysql.user table PAM plugin LDAP /etc/passwd /etc/shadow
- 18. Percona Server for DBAs 18 • Extended slow query log and user statistics – Complements or replaces PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA • Extended InnoDB/XtraDB diagnostics • http://bit.ly/psdiag1, http://bit.ly/psdiag2, http://bit.ly/psdiag3
- 19. Percona Server for Cloud/DBaaS 19 • For users: – A database server! • For DBAs: – Utility user, storage engine enforcement, server variable limits, ...
- 20. Percona Server Performance 20 • What is performance? – Raw performance ● Average TPS, average latency, etc – Stable performance ● High raw performance is no good if 5% of queries timeout!
- 21. Percona Server Performance 21
- 22. Percona Server Performance Stability 22 • Stable performance has always been important to Percona • Let's review 5.5 briefly • http://bit.ly/ps55ssd
- 23. Percona Server Performance Stability 23
- 24. Percona Server Performance Stability 24 • Now, on to 5.6 • http://bit.ly/ps56stable
- 25. Percona Server Performance 25
- 26. Percona Server 26 • Enhanced MySQL drop-in replacement – With MySQL EE features • Integrates with the rest of Percona software – Upgrade path for scale-out – Backup features • Numerous features not mentioned before • Better performance • Makes life easier for DBAs