Percona Server XtraDB Enhances MySQL 5.1
Percona, Inc. has announced availability of Percona Server with XtraDB, a drop-in replacement for MySQL, with full backward compatibility. According to the company's news release on PR News Wire, the server enhances MySQL 5.1 with up to 10-times performance improvements.
The new server with XtraDB is a drop-in replacement for MySQL.
"Percona's release enhances MySQL 5.1 with up to 10x performance improvements, diagnostic tools useful to DBAs, and more tunability of server behavior. Also included is Percona's online backup utility XtraBackup, the first such open source tool in the MySQL ecosystem.
"These improvements have led high-profile users, including Top 50 websites, to adopt the Percona enhancements. "Percona Server with XtraDB" now integrates these into one easily deployed solution. It is available for unlimited usage at no charge under the GPL license, the same license used by MySQL."
