Note: By Intel I mean x86-64 or x64 or x86_64 or AMD64 or Intel 64. Note: By ARM I mean ARMv8 or ARM64 or AArch64.
Apple Macbook with M1 chip are becoming more prevalent. These machines do not use your typical Intel CPU but are rather ARM based.
Developers with M1 Macbooks can’t spin up percona database with a simple docker run because images stored in docker hub registry only has architecture type AMD64.
Apple sees Intel as legacy and as time passes by those machines will be phased out in favour of ARM. With that in mind ARM support has to come sooner or later.
Worth noting that the popular boards known as “Raspberry Pi” are also ARM based, so hosting percona database on those machines are not as easy as it should be.
Interestingly MySQL from Oracle actually do have ARM64 binary available. Please see links for more details:
Thank you for being an active part of our community. Currently, we’re considering providing builds for ARM-based architectures. Unfortunately, I can’t give a date when this will happen.
For Apple M1, you can follow these steps to build the code.
Thank you for your work. As of today running Percona on ARM requires building binary from source, however my suggestion is that this should happen in the pipeline and binaries published through distribution channels to different package managers. The accepted answer by Pep_Pla suggests that this is on going work.
Is from a percona distribution channel. Pep_Pla has pulling the source code from github. I don’t see what the difference is. Can you explain your statement.
Hi,
We have started our work with aarm64. For now we have created docker container with aarm64 support but it is still in testing. Here it is: Docker
It is based on rpms so for now we don’t have deb packages for aarm64
So if you want to try it you can just execute
docker run --name container-name -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=secret -d perconalab/percona-server:8.0.30-22.1-arm64
Hi,
Any chances of having Docker image perconalab/percona-server:5.7 for linux/arm64/v8 as well anytime soon?
It would be really helpful in order to develop in Docker Desktop for Mac.
At this point this is highly unlikely. Percona Server for MySQL 5.7 is reaching it’s end of life later this year, and porting to a new architecture and platform requires significant engineering efforts. I strongly recommend developing new projects on version 8.0.
I would not expect anything soon.
Since they need 4-6 months to release a Build for Debian 12, which was freezed in Feb 2023.
Percona will weigh the adoption of Debian Bookworm against our own build processes, user demand, and our OS EOL policy. I would not expect APT support for this OS for at least 4-6 months.
We have now 4 servers with ARM Ampere ® Altra ® Q80-30 with Debian 12, but can not use percona anymore. We are forced to use mariadb.
I am looking to get out from under MariaDB Enterprise’s extremes in costs. I am working on building out some test servers using Percona, but I am not able to get a supported Percona Server for MySQL 8 build working as we use Amazon EC2 Graviton Instances as our testing in MariaDB showed they are much more performant for their costs.
Is there a APT Repo for ARM64 yet? If not when is this expected?
Posted Feb 2023: I would suggest that we will have PS8 build before end of Q2, as that is still ~4 months away
Only rpm packages are available for arm64 architecture yet.
Looks like, only RedHat users are able to compile from source.
It’s funny that OL9 is supported, even though OL probably has no future now that RedHat is no longer releasing its source. “06.2023”
Based on the other posts and answers here in the forum to the question about ARM, the answer is always the same.
Docker container or compile via the source code
We have come to the conclusion that we will not switch four large servers to Percona at a later date!
It’s a real shame.
Docker is not an option and spending hours trying to somehow get the source code to run on Debian 12 ARM64 is not an option.
Therefore we will work with the Community Edition of MariaDB.
I advocated for percona the last years and have now to admit, it was a stupid idea.
It is how it is, and we will move on without percona.
I think that Percona needs to get with the times a bit. With large scale ARM Server setups now in AWS, Google Compute, and Microsoft Azure, the only right thing to do would be to start compiling and supporting ARM64 architectures. I thought that MariaDB was slow to pick up on it, but still not having ARM ready versions is a bit ridiculous at this point.
There is now a ARM64 build, but only for Enterprise Distros like Red Hat and Oracle Linux.
All other distributions are not supported with respect to ARM64, this is now Enterprise exclusive.
Use Red Hat or Oracle Linux or you are out of luck.
I would also like to thank Percona again for the kick in the butt for promoting Percona at work.
Almost all of our servers are RX servers from Hetzner with Ampere ® Altra ® Q80 processors and therefore can no longer use Percona Mysql.
We’re excited to announce that both Percona Server for MySQL and Percona XtraBackup now support the ARM64 architecture on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8/9 and Oracle Linux (OL) 8/9 . The packages with the aarch64.rpm extension can be found on Percona Software Downloads. The aarch64.rpm file extension indicates that the RPM package is specifically built for the ARM64 architecture and intended for installation on an ARM64-based system.
This addition marks a significant step forward in expanding Percona support to cater to the growing needs of ARM-based systems.
