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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Please join Percona’s Sr. Technical Operations Architect, Tim Vaillancourt as he presents MongoDB Backup and Recovery Field Guide on Thursday, June 14, 2018, at 10:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 1:00 PM EDT (UTC-4). Register Now This talk will cover backup and recovery solutions for MongoDB replica sets and clusters, focusing on online and low-impact solutions […]
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Please join Percona’s Senior Technical Operations Architect, Tim Vaillancourt as he presents Running MongoDB in Production (Part 3) on Thursday, May 3, 2018, at 10:00 am PDT (UTC-7) / 1:00 pm EDT (UTC-4). Are you a seasoned MySQL DBA that needs to add MongoDB to your skills? Are you used to managing a small environment […]
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In this article, we will explain how to restore a MongoDB logical backup performed via ‘mongodump’ to a mongod instance. MongoDB logical backup requires the use of the ‘mongorestore‘ tool to perform the restore backup. This article focuses on this tool and process. Note: Percona develops a backup tool named Percona-Lab/mongodb-consistent-backup, which is a wrapper for ‘mongodump‘, adding […]
Read MorePlease join Percona’s Senior Technical Operations Architect, Tim Vaillancourt as he presents Running MongoDB in Production, Part 1 on Thursday, April 19, 2018, at 10:00 am PDT (UTC-7) / 1:00 pm EDT (UTC-4). Are you a seasoned MySQL DBA that needs to add MongoDB to your skills? Are you used to managing a small environment that runs well, but […]
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In this blog post, we will discuss the MongoDB Hot Backup feature in Percona Server for MongoDB and how it can help you get a safe backup of your data with minimal impact. Percona Server for MongoDB Percona Server for MongoDB is Percona’s open-source fork of MongoDB, aimed at having 100% feature compatibility (much like […]
Read MoreIn this blog post, we will discuss MongoDB 3.6 Retryable Writes, a new application-level feature. Background From the beginning, MongoDB replica sets were designed to recover gracefully from many internal problems or events such as node crashes, network partitions/errors/interruptions, replica set member fail-overs, etc. While these events eventually recover transparently to the overall replica set, in […]
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In this blog, we will discuss the new expression query operator $expr, added to MongoDB in version 3.6. To show the power of this functionality, I will demonstrate the use of this feature with a simple example. The $expr Query Operator With the exception of a few basic operators ($and, $or, $lt, $gt, etc.), before MongoDB […]
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In this blog post, we will explore MongoDB 3.6 change streams – a powerful new feature that added in the latest version of MongoDB. Streaming data workflows are becoming increasingly popular in open-source due to their ability to allow efficient, asynchronous, near-real-time updates that benefit users becoming more and more accustomed to real-time experiences in technology. Before the rise […]
Read MoreIn 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 application usage of MongoDB. Sorting Changes The most […]
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