by Dave Avery | Nov 16, 2018 | Cloud
Percona’s very own Michael Benshoof posted an article called Supercharge your Amazon RDS for MySQL deployment with ProxySQL and Percona Monitoring and Management on the AWS Database blog. In this article, Michael looks at how to maximize the performance of your...
by Avinash Vallarapu | Nov 16, 2018 | Insight for DBAs, PostgreSQL
In this blog post we’ll look at what the newly-released PostgreSQL minor versions contain. You probably want to update your current versions and use these updates. You might already have seen that they released the updates for supported PostgreSQL versions on...
by Jervin Real | Nov 16, 2018 | Cloud, MySQL
In this Checklist for Success series, we will discuss reducing unknowns when hosting in the cloud using and migrating to Amazon Aurora. These tips might also apply to other database as a service (DBaaS) offerings. In our previous article, we discussed the importance...
by Marco Tusa | Nov 15, 2018 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
Let’s talk about MySQL high availability (HA) and synchronous replication once more. It’s part of a longer series on some high availability reference architecture solutions over geographically distributed areas. Part 1: Reference Architecture(s) for High...
by Marco Tusa | Nov 15, 2018 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In this article, we’ll look at an example of an on-premises, geographically distributed MySQL high availability solution. It’s part of a longer series on some high availability reference architecture solutions over geographically distributed areas. Part 1:...
by Marco Tusa | Nov 15, 2018 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, PostgreSQL
In this series of blog posts, I’m going to look at some high availability reference architecture solutions over geographically distributed areas. The Problem Nowadays, when businesses plan a new service or application, it is very common for them to worry about...
by Borys Belinsky | Nov 13, 2018 | MySQL, Percona Software, ProxySQL
ProxySQL 1.4.12, 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...
by Borys Belinsky | Nov 12, 2018 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.23-24 on November 12, 2018 (downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). This release merges changes of MySQL 5.7.23, including all the bug fixes in it. Percona Server for MySQL...
by Tom Basil | Nov 8, 2018 | MySQL
An Oracle engineer thanked two Percona engineers by name, along with engineers from Facebook and elsewhere, for their recent MySQL 8.0 source code contributions. Oracle incorporated their work into its latest MySQL production release (8.0.13). Percona’s Zsolt Parragi...
by Bronwyn Campbell | Nov 7, 2018 | MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Live, PostgreSQL
Welcome to Wednesday at Percona Live Europe 2018! Today is the final day! Check out all of the excellent sessions to attend. Please see the important updates below. Download the conference App If you haven’t already downloaded the app, go to the app store and...
by Bronwyn Campbell | Nov 6, 2018 | MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Live, PostgreSQL
Hello, open source database enthusiasts at Percona Live Europe 2018! There is a lot to see and do today, and we’ve got some of the highlights listed below. On Facebook? Go here for some pics that captured the action on Percona Live Europe 2018 Tutorials day...
by Przemysław Malkowski | Nov 5, 2018 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In this blog, we’ll look at how to quickly add a node to an InnoDB Cluster or Group Replication using Percona XtraBackup. Adding nodes to a Group Replication cluster can be easy (documented here), but it only works if the existing nodes have retained all the...
by Tibor Korocz | Nov 2, 2018 | Cloud
Recently, I’ve been working with a customer to evaluate the different cloud solutions for MySQL. In this post I am going to focus on maintenance windows and requirements, and what the different cloud platforms offer. Why is this important at all? Maintenance...
by Dmitriy Kostiuk | Nov 1, 2018 | Cloud, MongoDB, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
PMM (Percona Monitoring and Management) is a free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL performance. You can run PMM in your own environment for maximum security and reliability. It provides thorough time-based analysis...
by Vinodh Krishnaswamy | Nov 1, 2018 | MongoDB, Percona Software, Security
Encryption has become an important function in the database industry, as most companies are taking extra care to keep their data safe. It is important to keep the data safe on disk as well as when it is moving in the network. This restricts any unauthorized access to...
by Yves Trudeau | Nov 1, 2018 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
by Borys Belinsky | Oct 31, 2018 | MongoDB, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MongoDB 3.6.8-2.0 on October 31, 2018. Download the latest version from the Software Repositories. Percona Server for MongoDB is an enhanced, open source, and highly-scalable database that is a fully-compatible,...
by Tyler Duzan | Oct 31, 2018 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona released a Release Candidate (RC) version of Percona Server for MySQL 8.0, the company’s free, enhanced, drop-in replacement for MySQL Community Edition. Percona Server for MySQL 8.0 includes all the features of MySQL Community Edition 8.0, along with...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Oct 31, 2018 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MongoDB, Percona Software
Percona announces the planned release of Percona Server for MongoDB 4.0, the latest version of the company’s free, enhanced, drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition. Percona Server for MongoDB 4.0 includes all the features of MongoDB Community Edition 4.0,...
by Borys Belinsky | Oct 31, 2018 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the release candidate of Percona XtraBackup 8.0-3-rc1 on October 31 2018. You can download it from our download site and apt and yum repositories. This is a Release Candidate quality release and it is not intended for production. If you...
