by Jobin Augustine | Jan 22, 2021 | Benchmarks, Cloud, Insight for DBAs, PostgreSQL
The expected growth of ARM processors in data centers has been a hot topic for discussion for quite some time, and we were curious to see how it performs with PostgreSQL. The general availability of ARM-based servers for testing and evaluation was a major obstacle....
by Sergey Pronin | Jan 20, 2021 | Cloud, Open Source, Percona Software, Security
What is Node Draining? Anyone who ever worked with containers knows how ephemeral they are. In Kubernetes, not only can containers and pods be replaced, but the nodes as well. Nodes in Kubernetes are VMs, servers, and other entities with computational power where pods...
by Sergey Pronin | Jan 13, 2021 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Open Source, Percona Software
What is Edge Edge is a buzzword that, behind the curtain, means moving private or public clouds closer to the end devices. End devices, such as the Internet of Things (from a doorbell to a VoIP station), become more complex and require more computational power. There...
by Ivan Groenewold | Dec 21, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Services
As mentioned in the AWS discussion forum back in October, Amazon has started the end of life (EOL) process for RDS MySQL version 5.5. What this means is: AWS will upgrade RDS instances to MySQL 5.7 starting February 9 2021 00:00 UTC during your next defined...
by Sergey Pronin | Dec 7, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software
Last year AWS was about to ban the “multi-cloud” term in co-branding guides for Partners, removed the ban after community and partners critique, and now embraces multi-cloud strategy. One of the products that AWS announced during its last re:Invent was Amazon EKS...
by Sergey Pronin | Nov 23, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Kubernetes operators are meant to simplify the deployment and management of applications. Our Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster serves the purpose, but also provides users the flexibility to fine-tune their MySQL and proxy services configuration....
by Sergey Pronin | Nov 13, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Our recent survey showed that many organizations saw unexpected growth around cloud and data. Unexpected bills can become a big problem, especially in such uncertain times. This blog post talks about how Kubernetes scaling capabilities work with Percona Kubernetes...
by Sergey Pronin | Nov 4, 2020 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software, Security
Kata containers are containers that use hardware virtualization technologies for workload isolation almost without performance penalties. Top use cases are untrusted workloads and tenant isolation (for example in a shared Kubernetes cluster). This blog post describes...
by David Quilty | Sep 24, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Open Source, Webinars
Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) can be thought of as a platform that can be used to manage an organization’s database environment(s). One of the most well known DBaaS platforms is Aurora powered by AWS. In this webinar, Ananias Tsalouchidis, Senior MySQL DBA at...
by Agustín | Aug 4, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
In this blog, we are going to see how to compile a Percona Monitoring and Management 2 (PMM v2) client in ARM. For this, we are going to use an AWS EC2 ARM instance with Amazon Linux 2. Installing Dependencies First, let’s get some basic packages out of the way,...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Jun 8, 2020 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software
Unless you are using Amazon Aurora or RDS, setting up clustering software still can be complicated and that’s why we want to offer options to simplify database cluster management in Amazon AWS. This time I will be looking at Percona Kubernetes Operators, for both...
by Ivan Groenewold | May 27, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, 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...
by Corrado Pandiani | May 20, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
Recently I’ve been faced with an interesting challenge. How can I replicate data, in real-time, from DynamoDB to MongoDB? Why would I need real-time replication like that? For example: Running on MongoDB different queries relying on different indexes Having on...
by Mike Benshoof | Mar 31, 2020 | Cloud, Database Trends, Percona Services
One of the most common questions I get as a Technical Account Manager (TAM) from clients considering a migration from their current on-premise data center to AWS is “what are the biggest differences I will need to address?” In an earlier post MySQL to the Cloud!...
by Daniel Guzmán Burgos | Jan 21, 2020 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software, ProxySQL
Being that Amazon is one of the most-used cloud vendors, it is only natural that one may ask “How can Kubernetes be used in AWS?”. And the answer is – not that different than with other cloud vendors. What one needs is two things (and this applies...
by Akira Kurogane | Dec 20, 2019 | MongoDB
Recently I noticed the site Jan 2019 results download link) are a subset of the mongo javascript shell five dbaas_*.yml test suites used are sensible-for-DBAAS subsets of the same aggregation, decimal, and competition-comparison page at mongodb.com. But the scripts...
by Mike Benshoof | Dec 18, 2019 | Cloud, Database Trends, MySQL
When we think about the cloud, often we consider many of the benefits: scalability, elasticity, agility, and flexible pricing. As great as these features are, security also remains a business-critical concern. In an on-premise environment, every aspect of security is...
by Tibor Korocz | Jun 25, 2019 | Cloud, MySQL
Recently I had a case where queries against Aurora Reader were 2-3 times slower than on the Writer node. In this blog post, we are going to discuss why. I am not going to go into the details of how Aurora works, as there are other blog posts discussing that. Here I am...
by Mykola Marzhan | Feb 23, 2018 | Cloud, MariaDB, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
Please join Percona’s Build / Release Engineer, Mykola Marzhan, as he presents Monitoring Amazon RDS with Percona Monitoring and Management on February 27, 2018, at 7:00 am PST (UTC-8) / 10:00 am EST (UTC-5). Register Now Are you concerned about how you are monitoring...
by Dave Avery | Feb 21, 2018 | Cloud, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Live
The conference session schedule for the seventh annual Percona Live 2018 Open Source Database Conference, taking place April 23-25 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA is now live and available for review! Advance Registration Discounts can be...
