MySQL Enterprise Edition

Product Guide

A MySQL® White Paper

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Table of Contents

Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 3
MySQL Enterprise Edition .......................................................................................................... 3
Data Protection and Regulatory Compliance .............................................................................. 4
MySQL Enterprise Authentication .............................................................................................. 6
MySQL Enterprise Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) ............................................................... 7
MySQL Enterprise Encryption .................................................................................................... 8
MySQL Enterprise Masking and De-identification ...................................................................... 9
MySQL Enterprise Firewall ....................................................................................................... 10
MySQL Enterprise Audit ........................................................................................................... 11
MySQL Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) .......................................................... 13
CIS Benchmark for MySQL Enterprise Edition ........................................................................... 14
MySQL Enterprise Scalability ................................................................................................... 14
MySQL Enterprise High Availability .......................................................................................... 17
MySQL Enterprise Backup ........................................................................................................ 18
MySQL Operator for Kubernetes .............................................................................................. 19
MySQL Enterprise Stored Programs ......................................................................................... 20
MySQL Enterprise Telemetry ................................................................................................... 21
Oracle Enterprise Manager for MySQL ..................................................................................... 23
Oracle Product Certifications/Integrations ............................................................................... 24
Oracle Premier Support ........................................................................................................... 25
HeatWave................................................................................................................................ 25
Conclusion ............................................................................................................................... 26
Additional Resources ............................................................................................................... 27

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 Introduction

Whether you are building high volume websites, enterprise and departmental
applications, or e-commerce applications, your organization needs the tools to build and
manage these business-critical database applications. This paper explores how you can
confidently deploy MySQL as part of a cost-effective solution for delivering high-
performing, highly available, reliable and scalable applications. It examines some of the
challenges associated with delivering secure applications that protect sensitive data and
meet regulatory requirements and how MySQL Enterprise Edition can address these
challenges.

MySQL Enterprise Edition combines the most secure, scalable, “always on” version of
the MySQL database with online backup, monitoring, management and SQL
development tools, all backed by Oracle Premier Support, 24x7 global enterprise-class
support services. Further, MySQL Enterprise Edition supports your use of MySQL in
conjunction with many of the Oracle products and tools you may already be familiar with
or are currently using. MySQL Enterprise Edition is specifically designed to help you
bring MySQL applications to market faster, mitigate risk, and ensure you meet customer
and end-user Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

MySQL Enterprise Edition

MySQL is the world's most popular open source database. Whether you are a fast
growing web property, software vendor, a large organization or an SMB, MySQL can
cost-effectively help you deliver high performance, scalable database applications. If
you are currently using MySQL, you probably started with MySQL Community Edition. In
fact, in many instances MySQL enters an organization via an application development
project and makes its way into the data center when the application is deployed for
production use. Challenges arise when these applications become vital to business
revenues or key business functions. The most common challenges around running
MySQL and other open source technologies are revealed by a simple line of questioning:

How will you know:

• If you are using the most reliable, secure, scalable, up-to-date version?
• If a server or application is down?
• If MySQL is configured to scale-out as your customer base grows?
• If there is a replication master/slave synchronization or latency issue?
• If something else is affecting the performance of a server?

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How will you implement MySQL recommended best practices to:
• Configure MySQL variables to ensure your applications run at their peak
performance?
• Monitor your MySQL environment to ensure you can meet your SLA
commitments?
• Integrate MySQL with your existing security standards and infrastructure?
• Protect your data from malicious individuals and organizations?
• Comply with industry and government security regulations?
• Setup your high availability and disaster recovery environment?

To help you answer these questions with confidence, Oracle provides MySQL Enterprise
Edition. MySQL Enterprise Edition is a commercial offering comprised of the MySQL
database with security, encryption, auditing, high availability and scalability, online
backup, monitoring, and management. MySQL Enterprise Edition is backed by Oracle
Premier 24x7 support for organizations delivering highly available, business critical
applications and services.

Data Protection and Regulatory Compliance

Data protection and regulatory compliance are key requirements to prevent lost revenue,
damaged reputation, and regulatory fines. According to the 2024 IBM, Cost of as Data
Breach Report, the cost of a data breach and the per-record cost of a data breach
reached new highs. These rising costs consist of business disruption, detection and
escalation efforts, post-breach response costs, and notification costs.

These data breach figures highlight just how vulnerable personal data is and how
important it is to be handled and used responsibly. In response, governments and
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 industries around the globe have put numerous regulations in place to protect the privacy
and security of Personally Identifiable Information (PII). Well known examples of
regulatory laws are HIPAA, GDPR, and PCI-DSS. However, many additional regulations
have been enacted such as CCPA, DMA, and more, making it difficult for organizations
to meet hundreds of individual compliance requirements.

Even though there are so many individual regulations, most of them share similar
requirements. For example:

• Assessing potential security risks such as weak configurations and

overprivileged accounts.
• Monitoring and blocking unauthorized database activity.
• Encrypting data in motion and at rest so that data us unreadable.
• De-identify personal information before it can be shared.
• Recovering stolen data from a breach.
• Identifying and notifying regulators in case of a breach.

The following sections provide detailed information about the MySQL Enterprise Edition
tools and technologies that enable organizations to meet these regulatory requirements
and protect sensitive data.

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MySQL Enterprise Authentication

MySQL Enterprise Edition provides ready to use external authentication modules to

easily integrate existing security infrastructures, including Linux Pluggable Authentication
Modules (PAM) and Windows Active Directory. By authenticating MySQL users from
centralized directories, organizations can implement Single Sign On. The same
usernames, passwords and permissions can be used. This makes MySQL DBAs more
productive by eliminating the need to manage credentials in individual systems. It also
makes IT infrastructures more secure by leveraging existing security rules and
processes (e.g. identifying weak passwords and managing password expiration).

MySQL External Authentication

MySQL Enterprise Edition provides ready to use, external authentication modules for
users who authenticate users via centralized authentication infrastructure products.
Each is described below:

• MySQL OpenID Connect Authentication – Enables MySQL to authenticate over

the OpenID Connect (OIDC) protocol . OpenID Connect is an interoperable
authentication protocol based on the OAuth 2.0 framework. MySQL OpenID Connect
Authentication improves security by removing the responsibility of setting, storing,
and managing passwords which can result in credential-based data breaches.

• MySQL LDAP Authentication - Enables you to configure MySQL to query LDAP

and Active Directory users and groups for Authentication of client connections.
Supports various LDAP authentication protocols including User/Password, GSSAPI
Kerberos, and SASL. Bind MySQL users to DNs to manage groups of users and
their MySQL permissions.

• MySQL Native Kerberos Authentication - Enables customers to leverage existing

Kerberos authentication infrastructure such as single sign on. MySQL Enterprise both
MIT (GSSAPI) and Microsoft (SSPI) Kerberos implementations.

• MySQL External Authentication for PAM - Enables you to configure MySQL to use
Linux PAMs (Pluggable Authentication Modules) to authenticate users via PAMs for
various authentication methods, such as Linux passwords or an LDAP directory.

• MySQL External Authentication for Windows - Enables you to configure MySQL to

use native Windows services to authenticate client connections. Users who have
logged in to Windows can connect from MySQL client programs to the server based

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 on the token information in their environment without specifying an additional
password.

• MySQL Multifactor Authentication (MFA) - Enables you to require a user to provide

two or more verification factors to access the MySQL Database. Username and
passwords are vulnerable to various attacks. By requiring multiple factors adds
additional security hardening to keep your organization safer from cybercrime.
MySQL MFA allows you to combine up to 3 authentication methods.

MySQL Enterprise Authentication provides multiple methods to authenticate users.

To learn more about MySQL Enterprise Authentication visit:

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MySQL Enterprise Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)

MySQL Enterprise Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) protects your critical data by
enabling data-at-rest encryption in the database. It protects the privacy of your
information, prevents data breaches and helps meet regulatory requirements including
the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and numerous others.

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 MySQL Enterprise TDE enables data-at-rest encryption by encrypting the physical files
of the database. Data is encrypted automatically, in real time, prior to writing to storage
and decrypted when read from storage. As a result, hackers and malicious users are
unable to read sensitive data from tablespace files, database backups or disks.

MySQL Enterprise TDE uses a two-tier encryption key architecture, consisting of a

master encryption key and tablespace keys which provides easy key management and
rotation. Tablespace keys are managed automatically behind the scenes while the
master encryption key is stored in a centralized key management solution such as
Oracle Key Vault, which enforces clear separation of keys from encrypted data.

MySQL Enterprise Encryption

To protect sensitive data throughout its lifecycle, MySQL Enterprise Encryption provides
industry standard functionality for asymmetric encryption (Public Key Cryptography).
MySQL Enterprise Encryption provides encryption, key generation, digital signatures and
other cryptographic features to help organizations protect confidential data and comply
with regulatory requirements including HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and the PCI Data
Security Standard.

MySQL Enterprise Encryption gives DBAs and Developers the tools they need for:

• Asymmetric Public Key Encryption (RSA)

• Asymmetric Private Key Decryption (RSA)
• Generate Public/Private Key (RSA, DSA, DH)
• Derive Symmetric Keys from Public and Private Key pairs (DH)
• Digitally Sign Data (RSA, DSA)
• Verify Data Signature (RSA, DSA)
• Validation Data Authenticity (RSA, DSA)

This enables software developers to encrypt data by using RDS, DHS and DH
encryption algorithms without changing existing applications.

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 MySQL Enterprise Masking and De-identification

MySQL Enterprise Masking and De-identification provides an easy to use, built-in

database solution to help organizations protect sensitive data from unauthorized uses by
hiding and replacing real values with substitutes.

MySQL Enterprise Masking and De-identification enables organization to:

• Meet regulatory requirements and data privacy laws such GDPR, PCI DSS and
HIPPA that require data de-identification.
• Significantly reduce the risk of a data breach by preventing unauthorized access
to confidential data.
• Protect confidential information while improving development, test and analytics
environments.

MySQL Enterprise Masking and De-identification protects sensitive data from unauthorized users.

Meet Industry Regulation Requirements and Data Privacy Mandates

All major industry regulations require data masking of PII (personally identifiable
information), PANs (Primary Account Number) and other confidential data so that only
authorized personnel can access the data. MySQL Enterprise Masking and De-
identification provides specific functions to mask and de-identify confidential data so your
IT organization can comply with privacy regulations, including:

• GDPR: General Data Protection Directive

• PCI DSS: Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
• HIPAA: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
• HITECH: Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act
• Data Protection Act: United Kingdom
• SOX: Sarbanes Oxley
• FERPA: Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act

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 • And many more

Improve the Security of Dev, Test and Analytics Environments

Organizations can reduce the risk of a data breach by masking sensitive or confidential
application data so it can be used in non-production systems. Real values are replaced
with realistic but fictitious values, allowing production data to be safely used for
development, testing, analytics or sharing with 3rd party partners for non-production
purposes.

Built-in & Easy to Use

MySQL Enterprise Data Masking is implemented in the MySQL Server itself, so the
masking logic is centralized. It’s simple to implement masking functions on sensitive
fields, which can be done on an existing database without affecting database operations,
requiring changes in application code or changes to the production data itself. MySQL
Enterprise Data Masking operates in memory with minimal performance impact.

Robust Data Masking Functions

MySQL Enterprise Masking and De-identification can hide or obfuscate sensitive data,
by controlling how the data appears. It features robust masking algorithms including
selective masking, blurring, random data substitution and other special techniques for
credit card numbers, account numbers and other personally identifiable information,
enabling IT departments to maintain structural rules to de-identify values. MySQL
Enterprise Masking and De-identification functions include:

• Selective Masking - Obscures a particular portion of numbers or strings such as

phone numbers, and payment card numbers.
• Strict or Relaxed Masking – Implement strict or relaxed masking to obfuscate data
• Random Data Substitution – Replace real values with random values while
maintaining format consistency.
• Blurring – Add a random variance to existing values such as randomized numeric
ranges for salaries.
• Dictionary substitution – Randomly replace values from task specific dictionaries.
• Blacklisting and substitution – Replace specifically blacklisted data, but leave non-
blacklisted in place.

MySQL Enterprise Firewall

MySQL Enterprise Firewall guards against cyber security threats by providing real-time
protection against database specific attacks, such as an SQL Injection. MySQL

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 Enterprise Firewall monitors for database threats, automatically creates a whitelist of
approved SQL statements and blocks unauthorized database activity.

• Real-time Threat Monitoring - All incoming queries pass through a SQL analysis
engine and are matched against an approved allowlist of expected SQL statements.
• Block Suspicious Traffic - Statements that do not match the approved allowlist are
blocked, logged and can be analyzed to help block a potential SQL injection attack.
• Learn and Build Allowlists - Automatically create user specific allowlists of pre-
approved SQL statements using a self-learning system.
• Transparent Protection - MySQL Enterprise Firewall requires no changes to your
application regardless of development language, framework or 3rd party application.
• High Performance - MySQL Enterprise Firewall runs within each MySQL instance
and provides scale-out performance.
• Logging - MySQL Enterprise Firewall tracks and provides metrics on both allowed
and blocked SQL statements. Blocked statements are logged for inspection and
alerting.

MySQL Enterprise Audit

Today’s web-based applications have evolved from nice-to-have enablers to the mission-
critical revenue generating mechanisms that characterize the modern e-business model.
In this virtual marketplace, PCI compliance guidelines ensure credit card data is secure
within e-commerce apps. From a corporate standpoint, Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and
other government imposed mandates guard the medical, financial, public sector and
other personal data centric industries with required logging, archiving and "upon request"
access to audit trails that reveal the eyes and hands that have viewed and acted upon
the most sensitive of data. In all use cases, requirements for capturing application level
user activity are most commonly implemented on the back-end database.

With this in mind, MySQL provides an open pluggable audit interface that enables all
MySQL users to write their own auditing solutions based on application specific
requirements. To help users quickly and seamlessly add auditing compliance to their

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 existing applications, MySQL Enterprise Edition includes MySQL Enterprise Audit, an
easy to use policy-based auditing solution that enables users to:

• Protect Sensitive Data using Powerful Filtering - Define what you audit using
templates or design highly custom filters using simple JSON filter definition. Filter on
connections, users, table access, access type, statement status (success/failure),
query content, and more.
• Meet Regulatory Compliance Standards - Provide the data your organization and
auditors need to be in compliance with requirements including PCI, HIPAA, FERPA,
SOX and more.
• Achieve Security Goals through Comprehensive Auditing - Trust but verify DBA
activity, prove your data’s validity and perform forensic analysis to investigate or
discover data breaches.
• Easy Integration with Audit Vaults and Stores - Externally archive and analyze
XML-based audit logs with ease using Oracle Audit Vault and other third party
solutions including Splunk.
• Dynamic and Easy to Manage - Dynamically enable/disable audit stream, change
filtering, and more with no downtime. Automatically rotate audit log files based on
size.
• Low Overhead - Collects critical audit data with minimal performance impact. Use
fine grain filtering to minimize audit log size and IO impact.

A common set up and use case scenario is depicted here:

MySQL Enterprise Audit Set Up and Use Case

To learn more about MySQL Enterprise Audit visit:

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 MySQL Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG)

The United States Department of Defense (DoD) approves and publishes the Security
Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) for MySQL Enterprise Edition 8.0. The Defense
Information Systems Agency (DISA) evaluated MySQL Enterprise Edition against
stringent DoD’s security requirements. The resulting guide for MySQL Enterprise Edition
provides comprehensive steps towards meeting security requirements for government
systems.

DISA STIGs include a description of requirements explaining:

• What are the related security risks and vulnerabilities?

• Is a vulnerability applicable to a product?
• Whether the product has inherent protection or if you need to check the product
settings.
• Which settings to inspect and how - pass (protected) or fail via a series of checks.
• Changes needed when a check fails.
• Other mitigating actions to put in place to minimize security risk.
• Use of additional products to provides added protection.

MySQL Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG)

Download the DISA STIG for MySQL Enterprise Edition:

https://public.cyber.mil/announcement/stig-update-disa-has-released-the-oracle-mysql-8-
0-stig/

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 CIS Benchmark for MySQL Enterprise Edition

The Center for Internet Security (CIS) is a global community of cybersecurity experts.
CIS develops CIS Benchmarks, secure configuration and implementation guidelines
used to safeguard against cyber threats. The CIS MySQL Benchmark provides
prescriptive guidance for establishing a secure configuration posture for MySQL
Enterprise Edition.

CIS benchmarks go through continuous consensus reviews by security professionals

and in this case MySQL experts. Reviewers come from consulting, software
development, audit and compliance, security research, operations, government, and
legal, providing a diversity of perspectives on cybersecurity. Although the CIS
Benchmarks focuses on Linux based platforms, many of the concepts and practices
transfer to other platforms supported by MySQL. Bring your systems into compliance
using a secure baseline by implementing and auditing against CIS Benchmarks.

The CIS Benchmark recommendations are recognized as a secure

configuration standard for many government and industry regulations, including:

• DoD Cloud Computing Security Recommendation Guide (SRG)

• Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
• Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)
• Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP)
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Download the CIS Benchmark for MySQL Enterprise Edition:

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MySQL Enterprise Scalability

By default, the MySQL Database provides a complex thread-handling model that

provides excellent throughput and performance for online and web-based applications.
User connections are mapped to execution threads on a one-to-one basis with each
connection/thread assignment remaining intact until the connection is terminated by the
client. Under this model the MySQL Database provides scalable concurrency of both
user connections and query executions.

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 While this model serves and scales most web deployment use cases very well it does
have the potential to limit scalability as connection and query loads increase at an
increasing rate. This use case is becoming more common as application clients now
extend far beyond the keyboard to mobile and other web-enabled devices. For the most
highly trafficked applications when concurrent connections grow from hundreds to
thousands and associated query executions grow proportionally scalability challenges
and limitations with the default model are potentially exposed:

• Current model does not prioritize connection queries for execution, regardless of the
number that have been submitted or that are in a “wait” status. No prioritization of
queries means that all attempt to execute in parallel with no regard for server
resource limitations.
• More concurrency of query executions requires significantly more server memory. In
an extreme case if the amount of memory needed by all active connections exceeds
server memory, the MySQL server may revert to memory/disk swapping, which will
greatly impact user response times.
• More query executions also leads to more cache flushing, which leads to more cache
misses and disk I/O requests. More disk I/O leads to longer query execution and
user response times.
• Write intensive applications are impacted significantly as concurrent DML statement
execution times can degrade exponentially as disk I/O increases.

MySQL Thread Pool

To meet these challenges around the most demanding “mobilized” application user and
workloads MySQL Enterprise Edition provides the MySQL Thread Pool. The Thread
Pool is a user configurable option that provides an efficient, alternate thread-handling
model designed to sustain performance and scalability as concurrent user loads continue
to grow. In these use cases the Thread Pool addresses the limitations to scalability by:

• Managing/controlling query execution until the MySQL server has the resources to
execute it.
• Splitting threads into managed Thread Groups. Inbound connections are assigned to
a group via a round-robin algorithm and the number of concurrent connections/threads
per group is limited based on queue prioritization and nature of queries awaiting
execution. Transactional queries are given a higher priority in queue than non-
transactional, but queue prioritization can be overridden at the user level as needed.
• Avoiding deadlocks when queries are stalled or executing for long period of time.

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 MySQL Thread Pool Architecture

The result is sustained performance and scalability as concurrent user connections and
work loads grow as shown here in a benchmark.

MySQL Enterprise Edition provides 9x better scalability for OLTP Read/Write activity with Thread Pool

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 MySQL Enterprise Edition provides 10x better scalability for OLTP Read/Write activity with Thread Pool

SysBench OLTP benchmarks show that the MySQL Thread Pool provides a significant
improvement in sustained performance and scalability for applications that service a
growing number of concurrent user connections and query executions.

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MySQL Enterprise High Availability

High Availability with MySQL InnoDB Cluster

MySQL InnoDB Cluster delivers a complete high availability solution for MySQL. Each
server in an InnoDB Cluster replicates data to all members of the cluster while providing
fault tolerance, automated failover, and elasticity. MySQL InnoDB Cluster provides built-
in group membership management, data consistency guarantees, node failure detection
and database failover, without the need for manual intervention.

Disaster Recovery with MySQL InnoDB ClusterSet

MySQL InnoDB ClusterSet provides disaster tolerance for InnoDB Cluster deployments
by linking a primary InnoDB Cluster with one or more replicas of itself in different
datacenters. InnoDB ClusterSet automatically manages replication from the primary
cluster to the replica clusters using a dedicated ClusterSet replication channel. If the
primary cluster becomes unavailable due to the loss of the data center or the loss of

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 network connectivity, you can make a replica cluster active instead to restore the
availability of the service.

MySQL InnoDB ClusterSet provides disaster recovery for MySQL.

MySQL Enterprise Backup

Backup

MySQL Enterprise Backup performs online "Hot", non-blocking backups of MySQL

databases. Full backups can be performed on all InnoDB data while MySQL is online,
without interrupting queries or updates. In addition, incremental backups are supported
so that only data that has changed from a previous backup are backed up. Also partial
backups are supported when only certain tables or tablespaces need to be backed up.

Restore

MySQL Enterprise Backup restores data from a full backup with full backward
compatibility. Consistent Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR) enables restoration to a specific
point in time. Using MySQL backups and binlog, you can also perform fine-grained roll
forward recovery to a specific transaction. A partial restore allows recovery of targeted
tables or tablespaces. In addition, you can restore backups to a separate location, or
create clones for fast replication setup or administration.

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 Compression

MySQL Enterprise Backup supports creating compressed backup files, typically reducing
backup size from 70% to over 90% when compared to the size of actual database files,
reducing storage and other costs.

Direct to Cloud Storage

Support for Oracle Storage Cloud, AWS S3 (Simple Storage Service) API to backup and
restore direct to inexpensive Cloud Storage (S3, Swift, and more)

MySQL Operator for Kubernetes

Containers, microservices and Kubernetes are helping organizations accelerate their

digital transformation initiatives. One of the primary benefits of containerized
applications, built using a microservices architecture and managed using Kubernetes, is
the portability they provide between Private, Public and Hybrid Cloud.

The MySQL Operator for Kubernetes manages the lifecycle of a high availability MySQL
InnoDB Cluster inside Kubernetes. It automates the full MySQL InnoDB Cluster lifecycle
including set up, updates, backups and maintenance. For supporting best security
practices, the Operator also ensures defaulting to TLS communication, encouraging
usage of TLS certificates with integration into Kubernetes certificate management, and
restricting the container's capabilities.

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 MySQL Enterprise Stored Programs

MySQL is natural choice for JavaScript developers who need persistent storage.
JavaScript stored programs enable DBAs and developers to build richer, modern, more
powerful apps within the MySQL Server. Developers can express complex programming
logic directly inside the MySQL Server, minimizing data movement between the
database server and applications.

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 There are many benefits to writing stored programs in JavaScript, instead of SQL:

MySQL Enterprise Telemetry

MySQL Enterprise Telemetry allows users to define, create, and collect telemetry data
from MySQL to monitor MySQL performance and behavior from a variety of observability
and management tools.

MySQL provides telemetry data, such as traces and metrics, using the CNCF (Cloud
Native Compute Foundation) OpenTelemetry observability framework– a vendor neutral
standard that includes common libraries, protocols and tools.

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 Monitor MySQL from Industry Leading Observability Tools

Traces

Telemetry tracing provides a holistic view of how your entire system operates all the way
to the MySQL Database level. OpenTelemetry traces offer several valuable benefits for
users of MySQL Enterprise Telemetry:

• Improved Debugging - Reveals the entire journey of a request, pinpointing

bottlenecks and errors, helping identify issues faster and with more context.
• Simplified Troubleshooting and Incident resolution - Tracing lets you track the
request across apps, microservices to the database, pinpointing the root cause
within the specific service that's malfunctioning.
• Performance optimization - By visualizing request flows, you can spot the slowest
requests.
• Database Performance Analysis - Reveals how long requests spend interacting
within the MySQL database, helping you identify slow database queries to optimize
for improved performance.

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 Metrics

MySQL Enterprise Telemetry metrics are highly configurable allowing users to specify
what to send from over 300 MySQL gauges and counters. Metrics can easily be enabled
and disabled and timing intervals for exporting metrics from MySQL can be customized.

OpenTelemetry metrics offer several valuable benefits for users of MySQL Enterprise
Telemetry:

• Quantifiable Performance Measurement - Metrics precisely measure various

aspects of database performance. Allowing for evaluation and identification of
bottlenecks or opportunities for optimization.
• Detailed Insights - Metrics can capture a wide range of data points, including
database connection counts, query execution times, cache hit rates, and more.
This detailed information provides a deeper understanding of how the database is
functioning.
• Proactive Monitoring - By continuously collecting and analyzing metrics, you can
proactively identify potential issues before they impact user experience. This
enables preventative maintenance and ensures optimal database performance.
• Trend Analysis - Over time, metrics data can be used to identify trends and
patterns. This allows you to forecast future resource needs and make data-driven
decisions for database scaling or optimization.
• Correlation with Tracing Data - When used in conjunction with tracing data, metrics
provide a holistic view of database behavior. You can correlate specific metrics
with trace data to pinpoint the root cause of performance issues or identify queries
that consume excessive resources.

MySQL OpenTelemetry metrics equips you with the quantitative data necessary to make
informed decisions about your MySQL Enterprise database, ensuring its efficiency,
scalability, and optimal user experience.

Oracle Enterprise Manager for MySQL

Oracle Enterprise Manager for MySQL provides Oracle developers and DBAs with real-
time monitoring and delivers comprehensive performance, availability and configuration
information for your MySQL databases. Enterprise Manager collects more than 500
metrics covering various MySQL components. Custom critical and warning thresholds
can then be set for each of the collected metrics. Plus, DBAs can track configuration
details over time to easily keep track of configuration changes.

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 Oracle Enterprise Manager for MySQL allows DBAs to manage MySQL databases.

More information about Oracle Enterprise Manager for MySQL is available at:
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Oracle Product Certifications/Integrations

An estimated 70% of Oracle’s customers also use MySQL. MySQL Enterprise Edition
makes managing MySQL easier in these environments by certifying and supporting the
use of the MySQL Database in conjunction with many Oracle products. These include:

• Oracle Linux
• Oracle VM
• Oracle Secure Backup
• Oracle Golden Gate
• Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall
• Oracle Enterprise Manager

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 Oracle Premier Support

Oracle offers 24x7, global support for MySQL. The MySQL Support team is composed of
seasoned MySQL developers, who are database experts and understand the issues and
challenges you face. With Oracle Premier Support, you can lower the total cost and risk
of owning your MySQL databases, improve the return from your IT investment, and
optimize the business value of your IT solutions. MySQL support is included in the
subscription for end users, and available separately from commercial licenses for ISVs
and OEMs. Oracle Premier Support for MySQL includes the following features:

• 24 X 7 production support
• Unlimited support incidents
• Knowledge Base
• Maintenance releases, bug fixes, patches and updates
• Staffed by the most experienced MySQL Engineers in the industry
• The ability to get MySQL support in 29 languages

Learn more about Oracle Premier Support:

http://mysql.com/support/

HeatWave

HeatWave is the cloud database service built and operated by the MySQL Engineering
Team.

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 Data processing with HeatWave

HeatWave GenAI -Take advantage of generative AI without AI expertise or data

movement. HeatWave GenAI provides integrated and automated generative AI with in-
database large language models (LLMs); an automated, in-database vector store; and
the ability to have contextual conversations in natural language.

HeatWave MySQL - Accelerate MySQL query performance by orders of magnitude and

get real-time analytics on your transactional data—without the complexity, latency, risks,
and cost of ETL duplication. Rely on the only cloud service built on MySQL Enterprise
Edition.

HeatWave Lakehouse - Query data in various formats in object storage and optionally
combine it with transactional data in MySQL databases. HeatWave Lakehouse delivers
unmatched performance and price-performance.

HeatWave AutoML - Automate the pipeline to build, train, and explain ML models using
data in object storage and MySQL Database—without moving the data to a separate ML
cloud service and at no additional cost.

Conclusion

In this paper we explored the components that are included in MySQL Enterprise Edition.
These components are designed to help you mitigate security risk and meet Service
Level Agreements (SLAs) as you implement applications built on the lower that comes
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 with standardizing on MySQL and other open source technologies. MySQL Enterprise
Edition extends the MySQL Database to include advanced security features for
Authentication, Encryption, Firewall, Masking, and Auditing. MySQL Enterprise HA
provides native high availability and cross-region disaster recovery. Enterprise Backup
augments your HA environment by performing online "Hot", non-blocking backups of
your MySQL databases. Oracle Enterprise Monitor for MySQL provides real-time
monitoring and delivers comprehensive performance, availability and configuration
information for your MySQL databases. Finally, the Oracle Premier Support provides you
with 24x7 support with quick answers and resolutions when you need help, so your
systems provide uninterrupted availability to your customers.

For customers that want a cloud service built and managed by the MySQL Engineering
Team, HeatWave provides automated and integrated generative AI and machine
learning (ML) in one cloud service for transactions and lakehouse scale analytics. Get
faster insights from all your data with unmatched performance and deploy apps in your
choice of cloud providers.

Additional Resources

Try MySQL Enterprise Edition:

https://www.oracle.com/mysql/technologies/mysql-enterprise-edition-downloads.html

MySQL Enterprise Edition: White Papers

https://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/white-papers/

MySQL Enterprise Edition: On Demand Webinars

https://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/on-demand-webinars/

To contact a MySQL Representative:

http://www.mysql.com/about/contact/

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