Western Digital in Partnership With Percona to Extend Zoned Storage Ecosystem Targeting MySQL Open-Source Transactional Database

Western Digital Corp. announced at its Flash Perspective event that it has teamed with Percona LLC, an open source database software and services, to unlock the performance benefits of Ultrastar DC ZN540 NVMe ZNS SSDs for MySQL Server, an open-source transactional databases.

“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, VP, strategic initiatives “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, 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. The company’s 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% 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 the company, Percona will provide enterprise software support, performance-tuning and consulting services for the use of Percona Server for MySQL with the firm’s 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 the company’s ZNS SSDs will be available in the 2H21.

Resources:
Western Digital and Percona Solution Brief
Zoned Storage Whitepaper