In this post we cover the methods used to achieve an enterprise-grade backup strategy for the PostgreSQL® cluster. In setting up our demonstration system, we use pg_basebackup and continuous archiving. The size of the database and your database environment—if it is on colo or cloud—matters. It is very important to understand how we can ensure minimalistic […]
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Lately, I worked on several queries which started returning wrong results after upgrading MySQL Server to version 5.7 The reason for the failure was derived merge optimization which is one of the default optimizer_switch options. Issues were solved, though at the price of performance, when we turned it OFF . But, more importantly, we could not […]
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Please join Percona’s Principal Architect Alex Rubin as he presents Best Practices Using Indexes in MongoDB on Thursday, September 27th at 11:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 2:00 PM EDT (UTC-4). Register Now Indexes support the efficient execution of queries in MongoDB. Without indexes, MongoDB must perform a collection scan, i.e. scan every document in […]
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To use Percona XtraBackup with keyring_vault plugin enabled you need to take some special measures to secure a working backup. This post addresses how to backup Percona Server for MySQL with keyring_vault plugin enabled. We also run through the steps needed to restore the backup from the master to a slave. This is the second […]
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In this post, we review how you can build an enhanced and secure PostgreSQL database environment using community software. We look at the features that are available in PostgreSQL that, when implemented, provide improved security. As discussed in the introductory blog post of this series, in our webinar of October 10, 2018 we highlight important […]
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As noted on our Software and Platform Lifecycle page, Percona Server for MongoDB 3.2 will be end of life on September 30, 2018. According to the Percona Services Lifecycle Policy, customers with an active support contract with Percona will continue receiving support; however, end-of-life software receives no new builds, bug fixes, security fixes, or features. […]
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Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. This week is clearly what I’d call a “MariaDB week” — plenty of announcements coming from MariaDB Corporation and MariaDB Foundation. It started with Alibaba Cloud and MariaDB Announce the Launch of ApsaraDB RDS for MariaDB […]
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Prometheus 2 time series database (TSDB) is an amazing piece of engineering, offering a dramatic improvement compared to “v2” storage in Prometheus 1 in terms of ingest performance, query performance and resource use efficiency. As we’ve been adopting Prometheus 2 in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), I had a chance to look into the performance […]
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ProxySQL 1.4.10, released by ProxySQL, is now available for download in the Percona Repository along with an updated version of Percona’s proxysql-admin tool. ProxySQL is a high-performance proxy, currently for MySQL and its forks (like Percona Server for MySQL and MariaDB). It acts as an intermediary for client requests seeking resources from the database. René Cannaò created […]
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RocksDB engine—and it’s MySQL implementation MyRocks—is a very good alternative engine for MySQL. It has proven to be very efficient and stable for many workloads, including those of large scale. However, it is still a relative newborn in the MySQL ecosystem, and has only a small fraction of the adoption rate of InnoDB. That means […]
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