New MySQL roles available- with Percona!

Those of you familiar with mysqlperformanceblog.com probably know about Percona already, but if you don’t, you might want to subscribe to the feed.  Peter Zaitsev blogs there, and he (along with Morgan Tocker) writes frequently on how to squeeze efficiency out of your mysql servers, minimize downtime, and more.

There’s a couple of reasons to prefer Percona Server over MySQL. I’d like to note that it’s a drop-in replacement, fully compatible with MySQL, and that it is entirely free of charge and under an open source license.

• Percona server uses the XtraDB engine, a enhancement to InnoDB, which runs queries faster and with more execution-time consistency, and includes somes tools to reduce the guesswork when troubleshooting errors. It also reduces downtime on servers with slow disks and large memory, such as 4XL EC2 servers on EBS volumes.
• There’s also the XtraBackup tool, which is hot backup software that performs non-blocking backups. With it, backups complete quickly and reliably, don’t interrupt transaction processing, and save disk space + network bandwidth.

Sound good? We’ve got good news for you then: Percona Server is now available for Scalr!

Percona Server now available on Scalr

To get access to it, simply go to the Role Builder under Roles in the top menu, choose the Cloud and OS you want to run in, select MySQL from the list of software to install, then choose Percona Server from the drop down and create. Easy!

Adding Percona Server for CentOS

You’ll end up with a brand new Role that you can use in your Server Farms.

Brand new 64bit Percona server

We’re all fans of Percona here at Scalr, and suggest you take the time to try it out. Commercial support and consulting is available from them too.