The Percona Database Performance Blog

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April 20, 2026

Deploying Cross-Site Replication in Percona Operator for MySQL (PXC)

Having a separate DR cluster for production databases is a modern day requirement or necessity for tech and other related businesses that rely heavily...

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April 17, 2026

MariaDB’s Snapshot Isolation: A Fix That Breaks More Than It Fixes

Jepsen’s analysis of MySQL 8.0.34 walked through a set of concurrency and isolation anomalies in InnoDB. MariaDB, which inherits the same codeba...

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April 16, 2026

Why A Goat?

New Brand. Same Independence. If you read today’s announcement, you know Percona has a lot to say about what’s broken in modern data infra...

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April 13, 2026

Pipelining and Transactions in Redis and Valkey

Pipelining and transactions are two important features in Redis and Valkey. Both involve sending multiple commands together. But they solve completely...

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April 13, 2026

MongoDB Query Plan Cache Explained: Performance, Pitfalls, and Re-Planning

When MongoDB receives a query, it performs the following steps: Evaluate the available indexes that could be used. Generate and test multiple executio...

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April 13, 2026

Auditing Login Attempts in MySQL and MariaDB

My colleague Miguel wrote about ways to audit login attempts in MySQL over 13 years ago, and this is still a relevant subject. I decided to refresh th...

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April 7, 2026

Percona ClusterSync for MongoDB 0.8.0: Up to 18x Faster Change Replication

Percona ClusterSync for MongoDB (PCSM) replicates data between MongoDB clusters — whether replica sets or sharded — handling both the initial bulk dat...

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April 1, 2026

Percona Operator for PostgreSQL 2.9.0: PostgreSQL 18 Default, PVC Snapshot Backups, LDAP Support, and More!

We are excited to announce Percona Operator for PostgreSQL 2.9.0! In this release, we bring significant improvements across database lifecycle managem...

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April 1, 2026

Benchmarking MyRocks vs. InnoDB in Memory-Constrained Environments

Benchmarking MyRocks vs. InnoDB in Memory-Constrained Environments It is a well-known fact in the database world that InnoDB is incredibly fast when t...

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March 27, 2026

PostgreSQL: Bye-Bye MD5 Authentication. What’s Next?

Introduction MD5 has been the most popular algorithm for encoding passwords in PostgreSQL and other database systems. It is simple to implement, cause...