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August 23, 2023
The Deprecation of qpress/QuickLZ Compression Algorithm
To reduce the backup size, save storage space, and speed up the backup and restore process, you can compress a [...]
August 21, 2023
Updated Percona Distributions for MongoDB, Metadata Table for QAN in PMM: Release Roundup August 21, 2023
Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably [...]
August 7, 2023
Percona Backup for MongoDB 2.2.1, Updates to Percona Distribution for MySQL: Release Roundup August 7, 2023
Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably [...]
August 4, 2023
Custom Percona Monitoring and Management Dashboards
Percona has bundled together some great open source pieces of software to create Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), a very [...]
August 4, 2023
Database Server Lifecycle for MySQL and MariaDB
In this blog post, we will look at the lifecycle and release management for MySQL and MariaDB servers — where [...]
August 1, 2023
MongoDB Security: Top Security Concerns and Best Practices
This blog was originally published on August 10, 2020, and was updated on August 1, 2023. “I think most of [...]
July 27, 2023
LTS and Innovation Releases for Percona Server for MySQL
On July 18th, Oracle released its first pair of MySQL LTS and Innovation releases. (For more, check out A Quick [...]
July 25, 2023
20X Faster Backup Preparation With Percona XtraBackup 8.0.33-28!
In this blog post, we will describe the improvements to Percona XtraBackup 8.0.33-28 (PXB), which significantly reduces the time to [...]
July 25, 2023
Faster Streaming Backups – Introducing Percona XtraBackup FIFO Parallel Stream
When it comes to backups, there are several options for saving backup files. You can choose to save them locally [...]
July 24, 2023
Announcing the Availability of Percona Backup for MongoDB 2.2.0
In the previous minor release, Percona Backup for MongoDB 2.1.0 (PBM) introduced a GA version of incremental physical backups, which [...]
July 24, 2023
Upgrade to Grafana 9.2.20 in PMM 2.38, New Data Sink in Percona XtraBackup 8.0.33-28: Release Roundup July 24, 2023
Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably [...]
July 19, 2023
Deploy PostgreSQL on Kubernetes Using GitOps and ArgoCD
In the world of modern DevOps, deployment automation tools have become essential for streamlining processes and ensuring consistent, reliable deployments. [...]
July 19, 2023
Update Percona Monitoring and Management Agent Settings for Already-Added Instances
When adding a remote MySQL instance to Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), there are a few options you can specify [...]
July 15, 2023
An Overview of Indexes in MySQL 8.0: MySQL CREATE INDEX, Functional Indexes, and More
This blog was originally published in January 2022 and was updated in July 2023. Working with hundreds of different customers, [...]
July 10, 2023
MongoDB Version Requirements for Percona Backup for MongoDB
Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) is a backup utility developed by Percona to address the needs of customers and users [...]
July 10, 2023
Percona Monitoring and Management 2.38, Updates to Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL: Release Roundup July 10, 2023
Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably [...]
July 3, 2023
PMM Is Getting a Modernized Enterprise-Grade Foundation
With Enterprise Linux 7 nearing its end-of-life date, the Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) team has done a significant update [...]
June 30, 2023
Announcing the General Availability of Percona Operator for PostgreSQL Version 2
Percona, a leading provider of open-source database software and services, announced the general availability of Percona Operator for PostgreSQL version [...]
June 29, 2023
CommitQuorum in Index Creation From Percona Server for MongoDB 4.4
Before Percona Server for MongoDB 4.4 (PSMDB), the best practice to create an index was doing it in a rolling [...]
June 28, 2023
Consequences of Forcing Bootstrap on Percona XtraDB Cluster
Recently, I was working on a very unfortunate case that revolved around diverging clusters, data loss, missing important log errors, [...]