Western Digital, Percona Join Forces to Extend the Zoned Storage Ecosystem, Targeting Popular MySQL Open-Source Transactional...
May 26 2021 - 12:00PM
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New Alliance Unlocks Support for ZNS SSDs in
Percona Servers with MySQL, Helping Customers Efficiently Manage
Growing Online Services and Achieve Scalable Database
Performance
Championing the Zoned Storage initiative, Western Digital Corp.
(NASDAQ: WDC) today announced at its Flash Perspective Event that
it has teamed with Percona, a leader in open source database
software and services, to unlock the performance benefits of
Western Digital’s Ultrastar® DC ZN540 NVMe™ ZNS SSDs for MySQL®
Server, one of the most popular open-source transactional databases
in the world.
“Many of our customers are using MySQL as a database for their
online data services and this new partnership with Percona will
allow customers to unlock the full capabilities of our innovative
ZNS flash solutions. With our contributions to the Linux® and MySQL
open-source communities, MySQL users will be able to install the
Percona Server for MySQL and get out-of-the-box support for Western
Digital Zoned Namespaces SSDs,” said Wim De Wispelaere, vice
president, Strategic Initiatives at Western Digital. “This
demonstrates our continued commitment to deliver innovative data
center infrastructure products and to build our partnership
ecosystem to make those easy to implement by our customers.”
“We have an ongoing mission to help our customers improve their
open-source database performance, as this supports the critical
applications that those companies run. We are excited to form this
technology alliance with Western Digital to bring our open-source
database expertise to customers. This alliance will allow customers
to capitalize on the distinct skillsets of Percona and Western
Digital, enabling customers to keep pace with modern application
performance demands and ensure they can monitor performance with
ease,” said Peter Zaitsev, founder and CEO at Percona.
To more efficiently meet the next wave in application growth,
today’s modern databases must run on NVMe SSDs to meet the
performance requirements of cloud-scale e-commerce, IoT and other
services as user experiences depend on it. Western Digital tests
indicate that a MySQL Server running on a ZN540 ZNS SSD with
MyRocks can perform up to 3x more transactions per second compared
to using a conventional SSD with InnoDB in write-heavy MySQL use
cases. These transactions complete with shorter and more
predictable latency, making the cloud services more responsive.
The Ultrastar Zoned Namespaces SSD also delivers up to 25
percent higher density and can endure 3.5 drive writes a day,
making it more robust in highly transactional workloads.
As part of the technology alliance with Western Digital, Percona
will provide enterprise-class software support, performance-tuning
and consulting services for the use of Percona Server for MySQL
with Western Digital ZNS SSDs. Together the companies will ensure
that customers with mission-critical environments can get access to
expertise around the clock.
The Percona Server for MySQL with Western Digital ZNS SSDs will
be available in the second half of calendar year 2021.
Additional Resources:
- Western Digital and Percona Solution Brief
- Zoned Storage Whitepaper
About Percona
With more than 3,000 customers worldwide, Percona is the only
company that delivers enterprise-class solutions for MySQL®,
MariaDB®, MongoDB® and PostgreSQL across traditional and
cloud-based platforms. The company provides Software, Support,
Consulting, and Managed Services to large, well-known global brands
such as Cisco Systems, Time Warner Cable, Alcatel-Lucent, Rent the
Runway and the BBC, as well as smaller enterprises looking to
maximize application performance while streamlining database
efficiencies. Well established as thought leaders, Percona experts
author content for the Percona Database Performance Blog, and the
Percona Live Open Source Database Conferences draw attendees and
expert technical speakers from around the world. For more
information, visit www.percona.com.
About Western Digital
Western Digital creates environments for data to thrive. As a
leader in data infrastructure, the company is driving the
innovation needed to help customers capture, preserve, access and
transform an ever-increasing diversity of data. Everywhere data
lives, from advanced data centers to mobile sensors to personal
devices, our industry-leading solutions deliver the possibilities
of data. Western Digital data-centric solutions are comprised of
the Western Digital®, G-Technology™, SanDisk® and WD® brands.
Western Digital, the Western Digital logo and Ultrastar are
registered trademarks or trademarks of Western Digital Corporation
or its affiliates in the US and/or other countries. Percona is a
registered trademark of Percona LLC. MySQL is a registered
trademark of Oracle and/or its affiliates. The NVMe word mark is a
trademark of NVM Express, Inc. All other marks are the property of
their respective owners. Product and service specifications subject
to change without notice. Pictures shown may vary from actual
products. Not all products or services are available in all regions
of the world.
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