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MySQL Server releases: MariaDB 5.5.21 Beta & Percona Server 5.5.21-25.0

Both MariaDB 5.5.21 Beta & Percona Server 5.5.21-25.0 MySQL servers have been released. MariaDB 5.5.21 Beta MariaDB 5.5.21 beta is a merge of MariaDB 5.3 and MySQL 5.5 with some limited additional bug fixes. In this release we have added some extra notable features including an improved thread pool, an updated...

MariaDB 5.5.20 Alpha MySQL Server Released

MariaDB 5.5.20 Alpha MySQL Server has been released based on MySQL 5.5 with merging of MariaDB 5.3 with MySQL 5.5. Full MariaDB 5.5.20 Change Log. Full description of MariaDB 5.5 here. MariaDB 5.5.20 is an Alpha release. MariaDB 5.5.20-alpha is a merge of MariaDB 5.3 and MySQL 5.5 with some...

MariaDB 5.3.4 vs MySQL 5.5.20 – 5.1 XtraDB Engine vs InnoDB Plugin

Percona folks released some surprising Sysbench MySQL InnoDB Engine benchmarks comparing MariaDB 5.3.4 RC (which is based on Percona 5.1 XtraDB InnoDB engine) with MySQL 5.5.20 (InnoDB plugin). The results showed MySQL 5.5.20 was out performing MariaDB 5.3.4 RC for simple Sysbench OLTP InnoDB benchmark tests. MariaDB folks then did...

Percona Server 5.5.19-24.0 Released

Percona MySQL Server 5.5.19-24.0 has been released. Based on MySQL 5.5.19, it includes all the bug fixes in it. New Features Variable innodb_flush_neighbor_pages can be now set to a new value cont. The previously-available option values 0 and 1 now have more descriptive names none and area. The value of none disables the neighbor page flush and area matches the...

Percona MySQL Server 5.1.58-12.9 & 5.5.14-20.5 released

Percona MySQL Server 5.1.58-12.9 & Percona MySQL Server 5.5.14-20.5 have been officially released. Percona MySQL 5.1.58-12.9 downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories Percona MySQL 5.5.14-20.5 downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories Percona 5.1.58-12.9 Highlights Performance Improvements fsync() has been replaced with fdatasync() to improve perfomance where possible. The...