Quickstart Guide for Percona XtraDB Cluster¶

Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) is a 100% open source, enterprise-grade, highly available clustering solution for MySQL multi-master setups based on Galera. PXC helps enterprises minimize unexpected downtime and data loss, reduce costs, and improve performance and scalability of your database environments supporting your critical business applications in the most demanding public, private, and hybrid cloud environments.

Install Percona XtraDB Cluster¶

You can install Percona XtraDB Cluster using different methods.

For superior and optimized performance¶

Percona Server for MySQL (PS) is a freely available, fully compatible, enhanced, and open source drop-in replacement for any MySQL database. It provides superior and optimized performance, greater scalability and availability, enhanced backups, increased visibility, and instrumentation. Percona Server for MySQL is trusted by thousands of enterprises to provide better performance and concurrency for their most demanding workloads.

Install Percona Server for MySQL.

For backups and restores¶

Percona XtraBackup (PXB) is a 100% open source backup solution for all versions of Percona Server for MySQL and MySQL® that performs online non-blocking, tightly compressed, highly secure full backups on transactional systems. Maintain fully available applications during planned maintenance windows with Percona XtraBackup.

Install Percona XtraBackup

For Monitoring and Management¶

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM )monitors and provides actionable performance data for MySQL variants, including Percona Server for MySQL, Percona XtraDB Cluster, Oracle MySQL Community Edition, Oracle MySQL Enterprise Edition, and MariaDB. PMM captures metrics and data for the InnoDB, XtraDB, and MyRocks storage engines, and has specialized dashboards for specific engine details.

Install PMM and connect your MySQL instances to it.

Operators¶

Percona Operator for MySQL and Percona Operator for MySQL based on Percona XtraDB Cluster are tools designed to simplify the deployment, management, and scaling of MySQL and Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) instances in Kubernetes environments. These operators automate various database tasks such as backups, recovery, and updates, ensuring high availability and reliability. They provide robust features like automated failover, self-healing, and seamless scaling, which help maintain optimal database performance and reduce manual intervention. By leveraging Kubernetes’ orchestration capabilities, these operators enhance the efficiency and resilience of MySQL and PXC deployments, making them well-suited for modern cloud-native applications.

Percona Operator for MySQL Documentation

Percona Operator for MySQL based on Percona XtraDB Cluster

Cloud-native database services¶

Percona Everest is an open source cloud-native database platform that helps developers deploy code faster, scale deployments rapidly, and reduce database administration overhead while regaining control over their data, database configuration, and DBaaS costs.

Percona Everest

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Last update: 2024-07-16