The document is a presentation about the MySQL ecosystem in 2018 given by Alkin Tezuysal from Percona. It provides an overview of the history and major players of MySQL, including Oracle, MariaDB, and Percona. It discusses MySQL use cases, scalability solutions like proxy servers, and Percona's open source tools and services for MySQL.

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ALKIN TEZUYSAL
The MySQL Ecosystem in 2018
Where can you be part of it?
Sr. Technical Manager , @ask_dba
Softtech Lunch and Learn
Thu Feb 8, 2018

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Who am I?
• Alkin Tezuysal
▪ Sr. Technical Manager, Percona
• Global Operations – Managed Services
▪ 20+ years of IT experience in RDBMS domain
▪ Enterprise background
▪ Speaker, mentor and coach
▪ Outdoor enthusiast

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About This Presentation
Overview of
Existing Solutions
and History
Discuss what we
use at Percona
Show what
specific things to
look at

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Agenda
 MySQL as Open Source Database.
Past , now and future of MySQL.
 Use Cases of MySQL.
Edge Cases of MySQL.
 War Stories ,real life examples.
 Scalability , HA and Proxy Wars.
 Percona Server and its open source product arsenal.
 Percona Services & Support.

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Inception of MySQL
• Written by Michael Videnius (Monty) in 1995
• In 15 June 2001, NuSphere sued MySQL AB,
• In October 2005, Oracle Corporation acquired Innobase
• In February 2006, Oracle Corporation acquired Sleepycat Software
• In January 2008, Sun Microsystems bought MySQL
• In April 2009, Oracle Corporation entered into an agreement to
purchase Sun Microsystems

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MySQL Versions
Ref:https://elmcip.net/node/10280

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MySQL Stake Holders
• In January 2009, before Oracle's acquisition of MySQL, Monty
Widenius started a GPL-only fork, MariaDB.
• In 2008 Peter Zaitsev found Percona with MySQL fork
• In 2008 Drizzle lasted till 2012
• In 2014 WebScaleSQL lasted till 2016
As of 2018 Oracle owns both community and enterprise editions of
MySQL

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MySQL 5.7
• Over 150 new features in MySQL 5.7
• Group Replication
• InnoDB
• Optimizer
• Security
• Performance Schema
• GIS (Geographic Information System)
• JSON
Ref:http://www.thecompletelistoffeatures.com/

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Percona 5.7
• Percona Server Improvements over default engine Innodb
• Percona Xtradb implementation for clustering
• Improvement over Memory storage engine
• Percona Toolkit integration
• Support for MyRocks
• Enterprise Performance and Security (PAM and Audit Plugin)
• Backup locks
• Bug fixes and patches
https://www.percona.com/about-percona/newsroom/press-
releases/percona-server-for-mysql-57-delivers-superior-value-
scalability-and-security

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MariaDB 10.2
• InnoDB as default InnoDB
• MyRocks alpha
• Window functions
• Recursive Common Table
• Expressions (CTEs)
• AWS Key Management plugin
• CHECK CONSTRAINT
• SHOW CREATE USER
• Multiple triggers for the same event
• EXECUTE IMMEDIATE (Oracle styled)
• DML only flashback https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/changes-improvements-in-
mariadb-102/

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Other Major Players
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) RDS MySQL & MariaDB
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) Aurora
• Microsoft Azure MySQL & MariaDB
• Rackspace Cloud MySQL & MariaDB & Percona Server
• Linux distributions MariaDB default

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Popularity of Mysql vs …
https://db-engines.com/en/ranking_trend http://www.itdadao.com/articles/c15a1211934p0.html

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MySQL Use Cases
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Web Scale
▪ Social Media (Facebook,
Twitter)
▪ Content and Cloud
Providers (Google,
Dropbox, Box)
▪ Services (Uber, Booking)
▪ E-commerce (ebay,
amazon)
SaaS
▪ AWS , Salesforce, Slack,
Adobe
Ref: https://www.mysql.com/customers/

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What’s the most used Database in the world?
• Oracle ?
• SQL Server ?
• DB2 ?
• MySQL ?
• PostgreSQL ?
SQLite
• Every Android device
• Every iPhone and iOS device
• Every Mac
• Every Windows10 machine
• Every Firefox, Chrome, and Safari web browser
• Every instance of Skype
• Every instance of iTunes
• Every Dropbox client
• Every TurboTax and QuickBooks
• PHP and Python
• Most television sets and set-top cable boxes
• Most automotive multimedia systems
• Countless millions of other applications
https://www.sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html

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Edge Cases of MySQL
• Very Large Clusters
up to 10-15K
MySQL instances.
• Sharded
operations for
geographic zones
and customer base
• Usage beyond MySQL’s initial design
• Not fit due to hardware limitation
• Unexpected growth and expansion

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Scalability and Proxy Wars
• What’s a proxy? – Lightweight application between client and server
• Known proxies and load balancers:
• Software
• ProxySQL
• ScaleArc
• MaxScale
• Netscaler (Virtual Appliance)
• HA Proxy
• MySQL Router
• Hardware
• Netscaler
• F5

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Open Source Proxy Options
•ProxySQL (GPLv3)
▪Stable since December 2015
▪ProxySQL - included with
PerconaXtraDB Cluster 5.7,
▪Lots of features and use cases
▪ProxySQL Use Case Scenarios
•MariaDB MaxScale 1.0…1.4.x GA
▪GA January 2015
▪The “Swiss Army Knife” - pluggable router
with an extensible architecture
▪ Logging, writing to other backends
(besides MySQL), firewall filter, routing via
hints, query rewriting
▪Binlog Server - popularised by
booking.com to not have intermediate
masters
▪Popular use case: sitting in front of a 3-
node Galera Cluster

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On Premise
▪ Based on Galera
•PXC
•MariaDB
▪ Several Nines (Cluster Control)
▪ Continuent Tungsten
▪ ScaleArc
▪ Vitess
▪ Native Replication
•MHA, Orchestrator,MySQL Failover
Cloud
▪ AWS Aurora
HA Solutions

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Tooling Highlights
• Percona Toolkit (pt-osc,pt-table-sync)
• Percona XtraBackup
• MHA
• Orchestrator, gh-ost
• Tungsten Replicator
• MySQL Built-in Utilities
• ClusterControl
• MySQL Sandbox
• Sysbench
• GUI tools: MySQL Workbench, phpMyAdmin, SQLYog, etc

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MySQL 8.0 (Not GA)
• Native Data Dictionary
• Fast Information Schema
• Utf8mb4 as Default Character Set
• Security
• Roles
• New Super Privileges
• Password history
• Log encryption
• Persistent Auto Increment
• Auto Undo Tablespace
• Self Tuning (pool, log, flush)
• Invisible Indexes
• Optimizer Histograms
• Performance Schema
• Innodb No Wait and Skip Locked
• Descending Indexes
• Aggregate over JSON
• JSON to table (Labs)
• JSON Extraction
• CTE (Recursive and Non-Recursive)
• Window Functions
• GIS Features Set
• Document Store
Database Administration Software Development

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Community vs Enterprise vs Percona
Community Enterprise Percona
- MySQL Enterprise Monitor Percona Monitoring and Management
- PAM Authentication PAM Authentication
- - RocksDB
- - Extra Hash/Digest Functions
- - Extra Diagnostic Features
- Performance & Scalability Performance & Scalability
- MySQL Enterprise Backup Percona Xtrabackup
- MySQL Enterprise Audit Percona Audit Plugin
- - TokuDB
- Threadpool Threadpool
https://www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-
server/feature-comparison

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About Percona
Solutions for your success with MySQL and MongoDB
Support, Managed Services, Architecture & Projects
Our Software is 100% Open Source
Support Broad Ecosystem – MySQL, MariaDB, Amazon RDS
In Business for 10+ years to champion Open Source Databases
More than 3000 customers, including top Internet companies and enterprises

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Percona Server 5.7 to 8.0
Ref:https://github.com/dveeden/mysql-history-graph

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Percona Server 5.7 to 8.0
Ref:https://github.com/dveeden/mysql-history-graph

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Percona Additions
Percona Server and Percona XtraDB (HA)
PMM
Percona Toolkit
ProxySQL Integration
Platform for Managed Services including Backup Solution (Xtrabackup)
Open Source Friendly

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