by Dave Avery | Dec 29, 2017 | Benchmarks, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL
Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2017. The closing of a year lends itself to looking back. And making lists. With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open...
by Colin Charles | Dec 29, 2017 | MariaDB, MySQL, Percona Live, ProxySQL
Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. The end of the year is upon us, and this column is being penned a little earlier than usual as I enjoy a quick bout of...
by Michael Coburn | Dec 28, 2017 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
In this blog, we’ll look at how to monitor Amazon Aurora using Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM). One impact of the growth of web services such as AWS on DBAs is the need to understand and report on database and application resource usage. DBAs have always...
by Yves Trudeau | Dec 27, 2017 | MySQL, Percona Software, Security
In this blog, we’ll look at how the hidepid options for /proc and Percona XtraDB Cluster can fight with one another. One of the things I like about consulting at Percona is the opportunity to be exposed to unusual problems. I recently worked with a customer...
by David Murphy | Dec 26, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MongoDB, Open Source
In this blog, we’ll look at MongoDB 3.6 aggregation and array improvements. With MongoDB 3.6 out, and us having talked about security, transactions, and sessions, we can now start to talk about something much more fun. This blog is centered on the improvements...
by Tim Vaillancourt | Dec 22, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MongoDB
In this blog, we will cover new MongoDB 3.6 sorting change and other useful features. The new MongoDB 3.6 GA release can help you build applications and run them on MongoDB, and we will cover areas where there are changes to server behavior that may affect your...
by Colin Charles | Dec 22, 2017 | MySQL
Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. I think the biggest news from last week was from cPanel – if you haven’t already read the post, please do – on Being a...
by Barrett Chambers | Dec 21, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Services, Percona Software
As we close out the holiday season, let’s look at some data that tells us how to guarantee a successful Black Friday (from a database perspective). There are certain peak times of the year where companies worldwide hold their breath in the hope that their...
by Colin Charles | Dec 20, 2017 | Cloud, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Live, PostgreSQL
Percona is extending the Percona Live 2018 call for papers deadline to January 12, 2018! Percona’s gift to you this holiday season is the gift of time – submit your speaking topics right up until January 12, 2018! As the year winds up, we received many requests...
by Peter Schwaller | Dec 20, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events
We’re completing our move of Percona bug tracking into JIRA, and the drop-dead date is December 28, 2017. For some time now, Percona has maintained both the legacy Launchpad bug tracking system and a JIRA bug tracking system for some of the newer products. The...
by Krunal Bauskar | Dec 19, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software, Webinars
In this blog, we will answer questions from our webinar on Percona XtraDB Cluster 101. Recently (7 Dec 2017) I presented a webinar about Percona XtraDB Cluster 101. Firstly, thanks to all the attendees: we had a great webinar with quite some interesting questions and...
by Lorraine Pocklington, Community Manager | Dec 19, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
…but don’t just take our word for it… The online industry news magazine Database Trends and Applications (DBTA) has included Percona Monitoring and Management in its roundup of Trend-Setting Products in Data and Information Management for 2018....
by Peter Zaitsev | Dec 18, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Webinars
Join Percona’s, CEO and Co-Founder, Peter Zaitsev as he presents InnoDB Performance Optimization on Wednesday, December 20, 2017, at 11:00 am PST / 2:00 pm EST (UTC-8). InnoDB is one of the most commonly used storage engines for MySQL and Percona Server for MySQL. It...
by Borys Belinsky | Dec 18, 2017 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.5.3. This release contains fixes for bugs found after the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.5.2, as well as some important fixes and improvements not related to the previous release....
by Aayushi Mangal | Dec 15, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MongoDB, Security
In this blog post, we’ll look at MongoDB 3.6 security improvements. As we’ve already talked about in this series, MongoDB 3.6 has a number of new features in it. But we have talked less about the new security enhancements in this release. The MongoDB 3.6...
by Colin Charles | Dec 15, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live, Percona Software
Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. The Percona Live Call For Papers closes on December 22, but why aren’t you submitting already? Don’t wait till...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Dec 14, 2017 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software, Storage Engine
Percona announces the GA release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.20-18 on December 14, 2017. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. You can also run Docker containers from the images in the Docker Hub repository....
by Dave Avery | Dec 14, 2017 | Cloud, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL
Fill out a quick survey on your cloud database plans. Today, keeping your enterprise agile and flexible is not just an advantage, it is a requirement. Many of the systems and processes once controlled by businesses onsite are moving offsite to “service” models. This...
by Krunal Bauskar | Dec 14, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
In this blog post, we’ll look at how sequence numbers work in Percona XtraDB Cluster. Introduction Percona XtraDB Cluster uses multiple sequence numbers (seqno), each having a special role to play. Let’s try to understand the significance of each sequence...
by Adamo Tonete | Dec 13, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MongoDB, Percona Software
In this blog post, we are going to focus on the pre-cursors to MongoDB 3.6 transactions. As already discussed in this series, MongoDB 3.6 has a good number of features in it. Many of them center around sessions (which David Murphy already talked about). Some are...
