The Percona Database Performance Blog

Continued Commitment to Percona XtraDB Cluster

At Percona, our priority has always been to provide the open source database solutions that our users can count on for the long term. Percona XtraDB C...

Troubleshooting logical replication delay made easy

This blog is based on a real production case in which users experienced a serious delay in logical replication. Let me try to explain how to approach ...

XtraBackup incremental prepare phase is 2x-3x faster!

TL;DR Percona XtraBackup is a 100% open-source backup solution for Percona Server for MySQL and MySQL®. It is designed for high-availability environme...

Orchestrator’s Next Chapter: What It Means for Percona Customers

Last week, ProxySQL announced that they are taking over the maintenance and development of Orchestrator, the MySQL high-availability and topology mana...

Ensuring PostgreSQL Backup Continuity: A pgBackRest Update

pgBackRest is a foundational component of the PostgreSQL backup solutions supported by Percona, playing a critical role in ensuring reliable and resil...

Achieving High Availability with Valkey Sentinel

In the previous guide, a robust Primary-Replica topology for Valkey was established. Read scaling is now active, and a hot copy of the data is securel...

Innovation From Every Corner: Inside Percona’s Build with AI Competition

At Percona, we’re passionate about open source database software, helping organizations of all sizes run, manage, and optimize their databases w...

Scaling Your Cache: A Step-by-Step Guide to Setting Up Valkey Replication

In the recent open-source data landscape, Valkey has emerged as a prominent player. Born as a Linux Foundation-backed, fully open-source fork of Redis...

Percona Live 2026 is Back in the Bay Area — Here’s Why You Don’t Want to Miss It

We’re thrilled to welcome the open source database community back in person for Percona Live 2026, taking place May 27–29 in the Bay Area. After the e...

Impacts of updates in open-source databases

We recently looked at how various open-source database engines maintain their secondary indexes (in a previous analysis) and found significant differe...