Percona Live 2014 presentation https://www.percona.com/live/mysql-conference-2014/sessions/percona-server-56-enterprise-grade-mysql

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