Datastore types and versions#

Datastore types management will allow users of Cloud Databases to select database type and version from the list of available choices provided by Rackspace. Rackspace will control datastore types and versions, adding new types and versions as they become available, and deactivating old versions at end-of-life.

To take advantage of this capability, users can specify datastore type and optional version at instance creation. Datastore Type is a family of database engines, like mysql, mongodb, and cassandra. Datastore Version defines the engine version of the selected datastore type. If users do not specify the datastore type and version at instance creation, the default database is MySQL 5.6.

Note

For the SYD and HKG datacenters only, the default database is MySQL 5.1 if users do not specify the datastore type and version at instance creation.

Refer to Datastore types and versions for the API operations for datastore types and versions.

For an example of using the type and version information in the Create Database Instance API request, see the "Create Database Instance Datastore Request: JSON" example for the Create Database Instance API operation.

See the sections that follow for information about the datastores that are currently supported.

MySQL 5.6#

MySQL is a high performance, open source database developed by Oracle. The latest MySQL release offers great improvements in InnoDB scalability, transparency, and replication.

For more information on MySQL, see http://dev.mysql.com/.

For MySQL, the type is "MySQL" and the version is "5.6".

MySQL 5.6 is the default database for Cloud Databases.

Note

For the SYD and HKG regions only, the only available database is MySQL 5.1. If users do not specify the datastore type and version at instance creation in these regions, the default is MySQL 5.1.

MySQL 5.1#

Rackspace currently supports MySQL 5.1. The latest version of MySQL (5.6) has many improvements over MySQL 5.1 and we will eventually deactivate MySQL 5.1 at end-of-life.

For more information on MySQL, see http://dev.mysql.com/.

For MySQL, the type is "MySQL" and the version is "5.1".

Percona 5.6#

Percona Server is a high performance, open source, drop-in replacement for MySQL. It offers all the improvements found in MySQL 5.6 Community Edition plus scalability, availability, backup, and security features found only in MySQL 5.6 Enterprise Edition.

For more information on Percona, see http://www.percona.com/software/percona-server.

For Percona, the type is "Percona" and the version is "5.6".

MariaDB 10#

MariaDB is a high-performance RDBMS. MariaDB is application-compatible with MySQL, but adds many new capabilities and enhancements to address the most challenging web and enterprise application use cases.

For more information on MariaDB, see https://mariadb.org/en/about/.

For MariaDB, the type is "MariaDB" and the version is "10".