Jeremy Cole announced that Twitter has published it’s own MySQL internal development branch to GitHub. MySQL at Twitter MySQL is the persistent storage technology behind most Twitter data: the interest graph, timelines, user data and the Tweets themselves. Due to our scale, we push MySQL a lot further than most...
A few updates to report. cPanel / WHM officially released v11.32 branch with official MySQL 5.5.x support. MariaDB 5.5.22 RC MySQL server. Percona XtraBackup v1.6.6 and v2.0 GA were released. cPanel / WHM v11.32 release Announcement link Before you upgrade, be sure to read the check list and notes for...
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...
In the last 12 months, I have written quite a few articles which I myself keep referencing back to or linking back to for other folks. So thought I’d revisit them with an all in one listing. Hope you folks, find some of these articles useful. If you do, don’t...
MariaDB 5.3.5 stable MySQL server has been announced. Compared to previous releases in the MariaDB 5.3 series, MariaDB 5.3.5 is primarily a bug-fix release with a focus on stability, performance, and usability. It is first stable or GA release of the 5.3 series and the fifth overall release in the series. Apart from fixing...
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...
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 XtraBackup tool for non-blocking MySQL InnoDB and XtraDB backups has been out for a while now. There’s been an outstanding bug #733665 logged since March, 2011 with regards to Percona XtraBackup’s innobackupex-1.5.1 script not detecting MariaDB 5.2 and now 5.3 based MySQL forks. When you run Percona XtraBackup’s innobackupex-1.5.1...
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