There are a few features in PostgreSQL that are very compelling, and that I rarely see in other RDBMSs. Some of these features are the driving force behind the growing popularity of PostgreSQL. This blog post is about one of my favourite features: FDW (Foreign Data Wrapper). As the name indicates, this feature allows a PostgreSQL […]
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If you are using large EBS GP2 volumes for MySQL (i.e. 10TB+) on AWS EC2, you can increase performance and save a significant amount of money by moving to local SSD (NVMe) instance storage. Interested? Then read on for a more detailed examination of how to achieve cost-benefits and increase performance from this implementation. EBS […]
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Please join Percona’s Chief Evangelist, Colin Charles on Tuesday, August 21st, 2018, as he presents MariaDB 10.3 vs. MySQL 8.0 at 7:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 10:00 PM EDT (UTC-4). Register Now Are they syntactically similar? Where do these two languages differ? Why would I use one over the other? MariaDB 10.3 is on the […]
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Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.41-84.1 on August 17, 2018 (downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). This release merges changes of MySQL 5.6.41, including all the bug fixes in it. Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.41-84.1 is now the current GA release in the 5.6 series. All of Percona’s software is […]
Read MorePercona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.61-38.13 on August 17, 2018 (downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). This release merges changes of MySQL 5.5.61, including all the bug fixes in it. Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.61-38.13 is now the current GA release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona’s software is […]
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Replication is one of the well-known features that allows us to build an identical copy of a database. It is supported in almost every RDBMS. The advantages of replication may be huge, especially HA (High Availability) and load balancing. But what if we need to build replication between 2 heterogeneous databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL? […]
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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. Beyond the MongoDB content that will be at Percona Live Europe 2018, there is also a bit of an agenda for MongoDB Europe 2018, happening on November 8 in London—a day after Percona Live in […]
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The flexibility of MongoDB as a schemaless database is one of its strengths. In early versions, it was left to application developers to ensure that any necessary data validation is implemented. With the introduction of JSON Schema Validator there are new techniques to enforce data integrity for MongoDB. In this article, we use examples to show you how […]
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Please join Percona’s Sr. Technical Operations Architect Tim Vaillancourt as he presents Developing an App on MongoDB: Tips and Tricks on Thursday, August 16th, 2018, at 10:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 1:00 PM EDT (UTC-4). Register Now A lot of developers prefer using MongoDB to other open source databases when developing applications. But why? How do […]
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Recently, we initiated a new project, the Open Source Database Community Blog. One way to think of this is as an online, year round version of the Percona Live conferences. If you have a story to tell, an experience to share, or a lesson to be learned send it along. As long as it’s related […]
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