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April 13, 2023
MongoDB V4.2 EOL Is Coming: How To Upgrade Now and Watch Out for the Gotchas!
MongoDB v4.2 was released in August 2019. And like previous versions, there is a time to go — and that [...]
April 10, 2023
Important Note for Users and Customers Using the Physical Backup Feature in Percona Backup for MongoDB
Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) is an open source, distributed, and low-impact solution for consistent backups of MongoDB sharded clusters [...]
April 3, 2023
Dealing With Chunks That “Lost Weight” in MongoDB
The life of a jumbo chunk MongoDB marks a chunk as “jumbo” when it grows past the configured maximum [...]
March 28, 2023
WiredTiger Logging and Checkpoint Mechanism
In this blog post, we will dive deep into WiredTiger’s Logging and Checkpoint mechanism. Every database system has to ensure [...]
March 27, 2023
How To Fix Oplog Restore Error: E11000 Duplicate Key Error Collection Using Percona Backup for MongoDB
‘E11000 duplicate key error’ is an error that you might have encountered during the restore process. In this blog, we [...]
March 15, 2023
Automating Physical Backups of MongoDB on Kubernetes
We at Percona talk a lot about how Kubernetes Operators automate the deployment and management of databases. Operators seamlessly handle [...]
March 10, 2023
Capped Collection in MongoDB
In this blog post, we will discuss the capped collection of MongoDB. Capped collection is a fixed-type collection that inserts [...]
February 27, 2023
Run Percona Server for MongoDB on Your ARM-based MacBooks and More
The transition to Apple Silicon (the M1, M2 ARM-based CPUs) has been great for macOS fans in many ways, but [...]
February 24, 2023
Percona Server for MongoDB 6 Adds Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
We’re pleased to announce that Percona Server for MongoDB 6.0.4 adds support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 and [...]
February 23, 2023
Streaming MongoDB Backups Directly to S3
If you ever had to make a quick ad-hoc backup of your MongoDB databases, but there was not enough disk [...]
February 10, 2023
Storage Autoscaling With Percona Operator for MongoDB
Previously, deploying and maintaining a database usually meant many burdensome chores and repetitive tasks to ensure proper functioning. In the [...]
January 24, 2023
PostgreSQL Sharding: An Overview and MongoDB Comparison
This post was originally published in 2019 and was updated in 2023. I presented at Percona University São Paulo about [...]
January 11, 2023
Save Time and Money With Free-to-Use Incremental Backups for MongoDB
MongoDB is a great database that provides outstanding high availability solutions out of the box. For most Database Administrators (DBAs) [...]
November 25, 2022
Percona Operator for MongoDB Backup and Restore on S3-Compatible Storage – Backblaze
One of the main features that I like about the Percona Operator for MongoDB is the integration with Percona Backup for [...]
November 16, 2022
How to Generate Test Data for MongoDB With Python
For testing purposes, especially if you’re working on a project that uses any database technology to store information, you may [...]
November 4, 2022
Percona Server for MongoDB 6.0.2 Is Out for Grabs!
Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB) is a source available database server for MongoDB based on the same upstream code as [...]
October 28, 2022
Restore a Specific MongoDB Collection(s) From a Physical Backup
We all know how critical it is to get our data back as soon as possible. To achieve this, as [...]
October 19, 2022
Backup MongoDB Database Faster With Physical Backups
Although MongoDB has a very rigid high availability (HA) mechanism built in its core, automatic failover and data redundancy will [...]
October 17, 2022
MongoDB: Delayed Secondary Member of a Replica Set and How It Can Be Useful
In this blog post, we will discuss delayed members of a replica set and how it can be useful. A [...]
October 7, 2022
Deploy Percona Server for MongoDB Replica Set With Ansible
In this blog post, we will discuss deploying a Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB) replica set with Ansible*. Ansible is [...]