by Roberto De Bem | Jan 22, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
Large tables can pose challenges for many operations when working with a database. Occasionally, we may need to modify the table definition. Since RDS replication does not use asynchronous for its replication, the typical switchover procedure is not feasible. However,...
by Aleksandra Mitroshkina | Nov 12, 2024 | Cloud, Database Trends, Insight for DBAs, Open Source
Originally published on The New Stack. Building a flexible cloud strategy means making decisions that align with operational efficiency, cost management, and scalability. Public cloud platforms offer immense convenience but come with certain downsides. High long-term...
by Jan Wieremjewicz | Nov 6, 2024 | Cloud, Database Trends, Insight for DBAs, PostgreSQL
TL;DR Kubernetes was built for stateless apps, but as more stateful applications (like databases) run on it, operators include quite heavy implementations to Kubernetes workload management API (such as StatefulSets) deficits. While creating custom methods allows...
by Ivan Groenewold | Oct 30, 2024 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) supports snapshot-based physical backups. This is made possible by the backup cursor functionality present in Percona Server for MongoDB. In a previous post, we discussed Percona Backup for MongoDB and Disk Snapshots in Amazon AWS and...
by Ivan Groenewold | Oct 2, 2024 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) supports snapshot-based physical backups. This is made possible by the backup cursor functionality present in Percona Server for MongoDB. The flow of snapshot-based physical backup consists of these stages: Preparing the database...
by Kedar Vaijanapurkar | Aug 19, 2024 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In current times, there is a high degree of focus on ensuring the availability and recovery of your production data. This can be challenging at times when using DBaaS solutions in the public cloud space, for example, when using AWS Aurora. Relying solely on a single...
by Cindy Neely | Jul 3, 2024 | Cloud, Open Source, Percona Software
This month, we’re taking the wraps off something really big — mountainous, in fact. It’s Percona Everest, our brand new, open source, cloud-native database platform, and it’s now generally available to the public. Percona Everest enables the deployment of an automated...
by Jaime Sicam | Jun 27, 2024 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software, Security
As per K8SPSMDB-732, TLS is now supported with LDAP authentication on Percona Operator for MongoDB 1.16.0 and above. This feature has been documented here as well. I’ve written a previous article on using LDAP authentication and authorization without TLS, so let me...
by Daniil Bazhenov | Jun 18, 2024 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Percona Software
Percona Everest is the first open source, cloud-native platform for automated database provisioning and management. It supports PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and MySQL clusters. It enables multi-database and multi-cluster configurations and can be deployed on any Kubernetes...
by Edith Puclla | May 30, 2024 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Percona is thrilled to announce the release of ARM support in Percona Operator for MongoDB 1.16.0. This new feature addresses one of our community’s top requests and opens up exciting new possibilities for our users. What is ARM, and why is it important? ARM is...
by David Stokes | May 22, 2024 | Cloud, Database Trends, Insight for DBAs
You may have heard about Unisuper’s problem last week; see here. The $135 billion dollar company’s data was wiped off its cloud, and everything disappeared—zip, zero, nada. Everything they relied upon was gone. Their Google Cloud experience has been labeled an...
by Sergey Pronin | Apr 26, 2024 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Cloud-native databases are becoming the norm, and containerized databases are a common trend (see the report from Dynatrace and Figure 1). Kubernetes—the de facto standard for platform engineers—and operators simplify database deployment and management. But what are...
by Kate Obiidykhata | Apr 18, 2024 | Cloud, Database Trends, Insight for DBAs
Why do cloud-native databases matter? Kubernetes makes it easier to run applications. It’s like having a magic wand for managing everything from small tasks to significant operations. However, despite the popularity of Kubernetes, there are many cases when it...
by Juan Arruti | Apr 10, 2024 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, MySQL
It’s a common scenario to have a Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) server running on Kubernetes and also desire to monitor databases that are running outside the Kubernetes cluster. The Ingress NGINX Controller is one of the most popular choices for...
by Sergey Pronin | Mar 7, 2024 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs
I really like AWS and the way they build their products, I really do. But for some reason, AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) provides one of the worst user experiences. There are a couple of huge pain points that I want to cover in this quick blog post. Cluster...
by Peter Szczepaniak | Feb 29, 2024 | Cloud, Percona Announcements, Percona Software
Join our Beta program to have a say in the development of Percona Everest and help us drive its progress! We are excited to unveil the Beta release of Percona Everest, an innovative open source cloud-native database platform built upon the robust Percona Operators....
by Edith Puclla | Feb 22, 2024 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
In our last post, we looked into the lifecycle of applications in Kubernetes. We see that Kubernetes doesn’t handle database backups itself. This is where Kubernetes Operators come into action. They add additional functions to Kubernetes, enabling it to set up,...
by David Quilty | Feb 15, 2024 | Cloud, Database Trends, Insight for DBAs
A cloud-native database isn’t just a database that happens to be sitting in the cloud; it’s built from the ground up to harness the full potential of cloud computing. Unlike traditional databases only adapted to operate in the cloud, cloud-native databases...
by Yunus Shaikh | Jan 5, 2024 | Cloud, MySQL, Security
The AWS KMS component is now available in Percona Server for MySQL starting from version 8.0.30. This addition enables data-at-rest encryption by utilizing the AWS KMS component, providing the functionality to create and manage cryptographic keys across AWS services....
by Nickolay Ihalainen | Dec 20, 2023 | Cloud, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
Huge pages make PostgreSQL faster; can we implement it in Kubernetes? Modern servers operate with terabytes of RAM, and by default, processors work with virtual memory address translation for each 4KB page. OS maintains a huge list of allocated and free pages to make...
