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August 28, 2025
It’s End of Life for Redis Enterprise 7.2 in Six Months – What Are Your Options?
From a technology perspective, Redis does a great job as a database and data cache. According to 6Sense, Redis is [...]
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August 26, 2025
Valkey 9.0: Enterprise-Ready, Open Source, and Coming September 15, 2025
Circle September 15 on your calendar! That’s when Valkey 9.0 officially drops, bringing enterprise-grade features that solve real operational headaches [...]
August 25, 2025
Don’t Trust, Verify: How MyDumper’s Checksums Validates Data Consistency
How do you know if your backup is truly reliable? The last thing you want is to discover your data [...]
August 22, 2025
MySQL 8.0 Deprecated Features: What You Need to Know
If you manage a MySQL database, you’ve probably heard the news: MySQL 8.0 is heading for its End of Life [...]
August 21, 2025
MySQL Router 8.4: How to Deal with Metadata Updates Overhead
It may be surprising when a new InnoDB Cluster is set up, and despite not being in production yet and completely idle, [...]
August 20, 2025
Deep Diving the Citus Distribution Models Along with Shard Balancing/Read Scaling
In my previous blog post, Integrating Citus with Patroni: Sharding and High Availability Together, I explored how to integrate Citus [...]
August 19, 2025
Secure, Centralized Authentication Comes to Percona Server for MongoDB with OpenID Connect
Today, Percona is proud to announce the release of OpenID Connect (OIDC) support for Percona Server for MongoDB, the source-available, [...]
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August 14, 2025
Top 5 Security Risks of Running MySQL 8.0 After Its EOL
Your MySQL database has been running smoothly for years. Your team knows it inside and out. Everything just… works. Why [...]
August 13, 2025
Webinar Q&A: No More Workarounds: Open Source PostgreSQL TDE Is Here
I would like to thank everyone who attended my webinar, “No More Workarounds: Open Source PostgreSQL TDE Is Here,” on [...]
August 7, 2025
LDAP Isn’t Going Away, and Neither Is Our Support for Percona Server for MongoDB
As enterprise software vendors race toward proprietary cloud ecosystems, some features long relied upon by businesses are being quietly deprecated. [...]
August 6, 2025
MySQL 8.0 End of Life Date: What Happens Next?
If you’re running MySQL 8.0 databases, you need to know this: Oracle will stop supporting them in April 2026. That [...]
August 5, 2025
Planning Ahead for PostgreSQL 18: What Matters for Your Organization
PostgreSQL 18 is on the way, bringing a set of improvements that many organizations will find useful. It’s not a [...]
August 4, 2025
Integrating Citus with Patroni: Sharding and High Availability Together
Citus is a PostgreSQL extension developed with the intention of sharding and distributing the data across multiple machines. It offers [...]
July 31, 2025
Security Advisory: CVE Affecting Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)
A vulnerability has been discovered in all versions of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM). There is no evidence this vulnerability [...]
July 31, 2025
Scalability for the Large-Scale: File Copy-Based Initial Sync for Percona Server for MongoDB
On behalf of the entire Percona product team for MongoDB, I’m excited to announce a significant enhancement to Percona Server [...]
July 30, 2025
A Practical Guide to PostgreSQL Replication with Both Asynchronous and Synchronous Standbys
PostgreSQL streaming replication allows a standby server to continuously replicate data from a primary server. It operates by streaming Write-Ahead [...]
July 28, 2025
How to Perform Rolling Index Builds with Percona Operator for MongoDB
This post explains how to perform a Rolling Index Build on a Kubernetes environment running Percona Operator for MongoDB. Why [...]
July 24, 2025
Introduction to Data Importers in Percona Everest
Percona Everest has always aimed to simplify running databases on Kubernetes. Previously, importing existing data into a new Everest database [...]
July 23, 2025
The Quirks of Index Maintenance in Open Source Databases
Index maintenance can be a real challenge for anyone managing databases, and what makes it even trickier is that open [...]