Percona Welcomes Community Contributors

Percona Community Contributors

Open-source companies live by their community. Favorable buzz by community users is ultimately what’s made Percona software successful. Some users make further contributions in the form of expertise, source code, documentation, and more. As an open-source company in business for over 14 years, Percona welcomes contributions from our user community. Here’s how you can […]

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MongoDB: Why Pay for Enterprise When Open Source Has You Covered?

MongoDB open source enterprise

A Spotlight on the Security of Your MongoDB Database
When Percona first published this blog in 2016, it was a refreshing comparison for important features of an enterprise-grade MongoDB deployment. But, comparing MongoDB Enterprise to Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB) has become such a common topic for discussion with Percona’s customers (and future customers) that […]

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Migrating from DynamoDB into MongoDB

migrating from DynamoDB to MongoDB

Say you need to move from DynamoDB to MongoDB; what options do you have? Unfortunately, at the time of this writing, there are no available tools to do this easily.
In this post, we will explore the available options and discuss some of the potential issues and solutions.
Deciding on the Approach
A tutorial on the AWS […]

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Best Practices for MySQL Backups

Best Practices for MySQL Backups

Here in Percona’s Training department, we like to think that we instruct our learners on the best practices for all things MySQL-related. In addition to performance tuning, query optimization, and replication configurations, another important topic is backups. Let’s dive in and discuss some of the basics and best practices around backups for MySQL.
Logical MySQL […]

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Percona Backup for MongoDB v1.2 Released

percona backup mongodb 1.2

Percona Backup for MongoDB v1.2 is out! In a nutshell it offers (much) faster compression choices, backup cancellation, and assorted convenience features such as a universal backup deletion command and progress logging.
And, for the DBAs out there in the field, we’ve added a whole extra binary (pbm-speed-test) that will give a quick way to […]

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