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Percona MyRocks introduction

MyRocks is a storage engine for MySQL based on RocksDB, an embeddable, persistent key-value store. Percona MyRocks is an implementation for Percona Server for MySQL.

The RocksDB store is based on the log-structured merge-tree (or LSM tree). It is optimized for fast storage and combines outstanding space and write efficiency with acceptable read performance. As a result, MyRocks has the following advantages compared to other storage engines, if your workload uses fast storage, such as SSD:

  • Requires less storage space

  • Provides more storage endurance

  • Ensures better IO capacity

Percona MyRocks Installation Guide

MyRocks Limitations

Differences between Percona MyRocks and Facebook MyRocks

MyRocks Column Families

MyRocks Server Variables

MyRocks Information Schema Tables

Performance Schema MyRocks changes

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Last update: 2023-10-10