Other than performance, full text searches on transaction based tables seems
like a great feature, available only on XtraDB.
Do you read their blog?

They also have a consulting service specifically for transferring from MySQL
to Percona.

Eric


On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:45 PM, der.hans <PLUGd@lufthans.com> wrote:

> Am 14. Oct, 2010 schwätzte Eric Cope so:
>
>
>  It doesn't answer your questions, but what made you decide to move to
>> Percona? Are you moving to XtraDB?
>>
>
> My boss said to change ;-).
>
> We need better performance from a couple of our databases. Percona has a
> reputation for having good performance patches.
>
> We would have considered MariaDB, but want to wait until some others have
> done road-testing for us :). Actually, if I can, I'll have at least one
> MariaDB box as a slave. I might even be able to use it as a master in a
> couple of places.
>
> The claims of better scalability for many cores for XtraDB interests us.
> Most of our DBen are sitting idle on RAM starved machines, but a couple
> are really beating the heck out of their hardware. We want to consolidate
> the DBen on RAM-starved machines to some centralized DB servers, which
> will then also be exercising the hardware.
>
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
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