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March 18, 2025
Migrating from MySQL to PostgreSQL Using pgloader: A Practical Guide
This post was originally published in December 2023 and was updated in March 2025. These days, there’s significant industry interest [...]
March 17, 2025
Percona Server for MySQL 8.4.2 vs 8.0.40: Comparison of Variables and Keywords
In this blog, we will look at the differences between LTS (Long Term Stable) versions of Percona Server for MySQL. [...]
March 14, 2025
Enterprise Readiness with Percona Monitoring and Management: A Look at PMM 3.0.0
Database disasters come with a hefty price tag. According to Information Technology Intelligence Consulting’s 2024 Hourly Cost of Downtime Report, [...]
March 11, 2025
Ready for the Enterprise: New Solution Updates from Percona
The latest releases from Percona bring targeted improvements that help organizations streamline deployments, strengthen security, and optimize performance in demanding [...]
March 10, 2025
Extending MySQL 5.7: Percona Releases Post-End-of-Life Source Code to the Community
Percona is excited to announce the community release of our MySQL 5.7 End-of-Life (EOL) source code for both Percona Server [...]
March 3, 2025
Why Companies Are Saying No to Proprietary Software, Including MongoDB
Is your organization’s innovation being constrained by proprietary software restrictions? You’re not alone—these limitations are increasingly at odds with enterprise [...]
March 3, 2025
Compression Methods in MongoDB: Snappy vs. Zstd
This post was originally published in March 2023 and was updated in March 2025. When it comes to optimizing MongoDB, [...]
March 3, 2025
MySQL 101: How to Find and Tune a Slow MySQL Query
This blog was originally published in June 2020 and was updated in March 2025. One of the most common support [...]
March 1, 2025
Why Enterprises are Choosing PostgreSQL (And What They Wish They Knew Sooner)
This post was originally written in March 2023 and was updated in March 2025. You know that feeling when your [...]
March 1, 2025
A Tutorial on MongoDB Sharding Best Practices & When To Enable It
This blog was originally published in October 2017 and was updated in March 2025. Is your MongoDB database struggling with [...]
February 18, 2025
Alternatives to MongoDB Atlas: More Control, Lower Costs
At first glance, MongoDB Atlas seems like the perfect solution—an easy-to-use, fully managed cloud database that takes the hassle out [...]
February 12, 2025
Considering Alternatives for Your MySQL Migration? Why Percona Should Be Your First Choice
You know about MySQL; we know about MySQL. After all, it’s been the most popular database system for years now. [...]
February 11, 2025
Security Advisory: CVE Affecting Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)
A critical security vulnerability has been identified in the following software that Percona has made available: PMM Open Virtual Appliance [...]
February 7, 2025
Encrypt PostgreSQL Data at Rest on Kubernetes
The upcoming Percona Operator for PostgreSQL v2.6.0 release introduces support for PostgreSQL 17, which opens exciting possibilities for data security. [...]
February 4, 2025
MongoDB 8.0 Performance; Does It Live Up to the Hype?
Percona Server for MongoDB 8.0 has been available for over a month now. We covered the most important new MongoDB [...]
January 21, 2025
Navigating MongoDB Licensing Challenges: Why Percona is a Game-Changer
MongoDB has long been a favorite in the database community and is renowned for its flexibility and performance as a [...]
January 16, 2025
Percona Everest: An Open Source Solution for MongoDB Sharding and Backups
The increase of cloud-native technologies is transforming how we manage databases. Since I stepped into the world of databases and [...]
January 8, 2025
Attaching a Percona Monitoring and Management Graph Image Along with an Alerting Notification
This article will be helpful if you use the Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) instance and alert notifications, as it [...]
December 20, 2024
MySQL Transaction ERROR 1412 and Isolation Levels
This blog post explains the cause of “ERROR 1412 (HY000): Table definition has changed, please retry transaction” with the specific [...]
December 19, 2024
Percona XtraBackup 101: Decompress and Decrypt or Decrypt and Decompress?
This blog is not intended to offer anything extraordinary; instead, consider it an anecdote, a lesson, or simply a proper [...]