The latest releases from Percona bring targeted improvements that help organizations streamline deployments, strengthen security, and optimize performance in demanding enterprise environments. From Kubernetes-native database management to security-hardened monitoring, these updates ensure businesses can scale efficiently while maintaining high availability and compliance.
Percona Everest: Simplified deployments for complex infrastructure
Percona Everest, which automates the provisioning of enterprise-ready MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL database clusters, continues to evolve with enhancements that enable seamless deployments in large-scale environments. With new support for Helm charts and enterprise Kubernetes platforms like Red Hat OpenShift and Rancher, organizations gain more flexibility in managing their database infrastructure. Additional features, such as deployment from external backups, provide added resilience and simplify recovery strategies, helping businesses easily maintain operational continuity.
- Regain control over your data, configuration, and costs – No licensing fees or vendor lock-in—your databases, your rules.
- Self-service for developers – Automated self-provisioning lets developers bypass operations tickets and move faster with fewer dependencies.
- Reduce workload costs – Run workloads on Kubernetes for up to 50% less compared to public DBaaS options.
- Automate traffic response – Eliminate manual adjustments and ensure consistent performance with large-scale automation and standardization.
- Optimize storage efficiency – Avoid costly over-provisioning or under-utilization with dynamic storage scaling (coming soon).
Valkey support: Expert services for always-on performance
Ensuring reliability is essential for high-performance key-value databases, and Percona now offers comprehensive consulting and support services for Valkey. With industry-leading SLAs—guaranteeing response times as fast as 15 minutes—businesses running mission-critical workloads can mitigate risks, resolve issues faster, and ensure continuous operations. This level of support minimizes downtime and maximizes efficiency for organizations relying on Valkey for real-time data access.
- Trusted Valkey expertise – Leverage Percona’s deep knowledge as a trusted partner and contributor to Valkey for optimized, scalable deployments.
- 24×7 real-time support – Get round-the-clock assistance to resolve issues and keep your Valkey deployment running smoothly and quickly.
- Health assessment – Percona evaluates your current Redis deployment, reviewing configurations, dependencies, and best practices to identify optimization opportunities and ensure a seamless migration path to Valkey.
- Migration planning and execution – Percona develops a detailed migration plan, sets up Valkey with performance monitoring tools, and executes a streamlined transition with minimal impact on your applications.
- Architecture and design consultations – Optimize your Valkey deployment with expert recommendations tailored to your infrastructure and application needs, ensuring peak performance and availability.
PMM 3.0.0: Stronger security, smoother deployments, and better control
Security and ease of use take center stage in the release of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 3.0.0. With improvements addressing OWASP TOP-10 vulnerabilities, encrypted database connection details, and rootless Docker container support, enterprises can better protect their infrastructure against threats.
Deployment is now even more flexible, with expanded support across Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Podman environments, allowing businesses to manage monitoring solutions efficiently at scale. The updated PMM Update Center and improved UI bring an intuitive experience, making monitoring and optimizing databases easier without unnecessary complexity.
- Stronger security – Rootless deployments, encrypted sensitive data, and improved API authentication enhance infrastructure protection.
- Flexible deployment options – Run PMM on ARM devices, deploy via Helm, Docker, Virtual Appliance, or AWS, and use Podman for added security.
- Increased stability – A containerized architecture improves isolation and reliability, while a streamlined upgrade process reduces update failures.
- Enhanced user experience – Customizable monitoring configurations and UI-based upgrades for Podman simplify management.
- Support for the latest databases – PMM now includes monitoring for MongoDB 8.0 and integration with Watchtower for automated container updates.
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MySQL enhancements: Performance and compliance at scale
Recent trends in MySQL Community Edition have raised concerns, with performance degradation becoming evident in versions 5.7, 8.0, and now 8.4, particularly for high-write workloads. This has created a critical need for improvement among community users and customers. Percona Server for MySQL 8.4 delivers notable improvements, outperforming MySQL Community Edition by up to 17% in write operations. These gains come from internal optimizations, such as a faster data mapping method, ensuring high-throughput workloads run more efficiently.
In addition, Percona Server for MySQL Pro now includes FIPS mode for organizations requiring regulatory compliance. This simplifies the certification process by ensuring cryptographic operations align with security standards, reducing the time and effort required for compliance.
- High performance, zero lock-in – Run high-performance, highly available, and secure databases without licensing costs or vendor restrictions.
- Optimized for demanding workloads – Percona Server for MySQL 8.4 outperforms MySQL Community Edition by up to 17% in write operations.
- Enterprise-ready compliance – Percona Server for MySQL Pro includes FIPS mode, simplifying regulatory compliance while ensuring data security.
- Seamless high availability – Keep critical applications running with scalable infrastructure, seamless backups, and uninterrupted performance.
- Cloud-native flexibility – Deploy and manage MySQL workloads across private, public, hybrid, or multi-cloud Kubernetes environments.
- Lower total cost of ownership – Avoid unnecessary licensing fees, vendor lock-in, and price hikes while maintaining full control over your data.
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About the Author
Aleksandra MitroshkinaAleksandra Mitroshkina is a product marketing leader with extensive expertise in product marketing strategy, sales enablement, and agile marketing. Since 2018, she has been at the forefront of bringing the products to markets for companies in Open Source (Linux and Databases), Ad Tech, and Health IT. Aleksandra currently leads the Product and Solutions Marketing efforts at Percona, where she drives the company’s strategic initiatives and market positioning.
