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.

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
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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.
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Little to none work to update your applications
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Percona's committment to follow MySQL releases
– XtraDB: enhanced InnoDB
– How do we decide what features to add?
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4. History of Percona Server Releases
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Current: 5.1, 5.5, and 5.6 series following
Oracle release series
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The following pages will show release dates
for first releases for a minor version number
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Percona might make more releases than
that: e.g. 5.6.16-64.0, 5.6.16-64.1
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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
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http://bit.ly/psbmpdoc
– Backups that block the server less
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http://bit.ly/psbpklocks
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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,
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20. Percona Server Performance 20
• What is performance?
– Raw performance
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Average TPS, average latency, etc
– Stable performance
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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