by Pete Scott | Apr 14, 2023 | Database Trends, Insight for DBAs
Here we are, with an economic downturn looming globally and some countries facing a recession. For many execs and tech decision-makers in the financial services industry, it’s not the first go-round. During the recession of 2008, they experienced firsthand how fast...
by Peter Zaitsev | Sep 9, 2022 | Database Trends, MySQL, Open Source
Another day, another company announces it changed its license away from open source while claiming “We Believe In A Model Of Sustainable Open Source.” I’m not sure about you, but this rings to me as similar to an alleged quote about the Vietnam War: “We had to destroy...
by Michael Patrick | Apr 21, 2022 | Cloud, Database Trends
Before you transition your database environment to the cloud, there are a few considerations you should consider first. Some of the touted benefits of the cloud also carry with them some risks or negative impacts. Let’s take a look at just a few of these....
by Rachel Pescador | Oct 4, 2021 | Database Trends, Open Source
Complete the 2021 Open Source Data Management Software Survey to share your knowledge and experience, and help inform the open source database community. In 2020 we ran our second Open Source Data Management Software Survey. This resulted in some interesting data on...
by Rachel Pescador | May 12, 2021 | Database Trends, Open Source, Percona Live
A survey of 200 IT decision-makers from medium to large enterprises was conducted in Q1 of 2021 by Vanson Bourne and sponsored by Percona in advance of Percona Live ONLINE 2021, which started today! Percona Live Online represents dozens of projects, communities, and...
by Matt Yonkovit | Feb 17, 2021 | Database Trends, Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers
I have talked extensively about the DBA’s evolving role and how many DBA’s and operations professionals are now becoming SRE’s (site reliability engineers) or DBRE’s (database reliability engineers). Often, databases get blamed as the bottleneck for application...
by Peter Zaitsev | Feb 2, 2021 | Database Trends, Insight for DBAs, Open Source
After MongoDB switched to SSPL I wrote part one of this article, titled “Why MongoDB’s SSPL is Bad For You”. At the time it was a MongoDB phenomenon, though over the last 2+ years more companies (typically VC-funded unicorns or public companies) changed licenses to...
by Matt Yonkovit | Jan 20, 2021 | Database Trends, Open Source
Last week Elastic announced that they were “Doubling Down” on open source by changing their licensing to a non-open license – MongoDB’s Server Side Public License, or SSPL. Let me clarify in my opinion this is not doubling down – unless, as our good...
by Matt Yonkovit | Jan 13, 2021 | Database Trends, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL
The Percona team provided the community with some excellent content and several new releases in 2020. I wanted to highlight some of your favorites (based on popularity) if you missed them. First up is our most-read blog from last year, which ironically was published...
by Matt Yonkovit | Dec 15, 2020 | Database Trends, Insight for DBAs, Open Source
Covid-19 has had a significant impact on most aspects of our lives in 2020. Although some companies saw unexpected growth due to offering in-demand tools or services, I think most of us will be happy to draw a line under 2020 and hope for a better 2021. In the spirit...
by Dawn Heiberg | Nov 3, 2020 | Cloud, Database Trends, Insight for DBAs
In this year’s Open Source Data Management Software survey, we asked organizations “What issues have you experienced in the last 12 months?” The main issue, flagged by three-quarters of respondents, was performance. Given the adverse impact that data slowdown has on...
by Rachel Pescador | Oct 29, 2020 | Database Trends, Open Source, Percona Announcements
At our recent Percona Live ONLINE we announced the release of the 2020 Open Source Data Management Software Survey results. This year, we wanted to build upon the data we collected in 2019 and continue to monitor the open source industry’s pulse. The 2020 survey was...
by Matt Yonkovit | Aug 5, 2020 | Database Trends, Insight for DBAs, Security
How many times have we seen this headline lately: “X million records leaked in data breach”? The answer is, too many! In fact, because “millions of records” are starting to leak so frequently, larger news outlets are not covering the “smaller” leaks as often as they...
by Rachel Pescador | Jul 22, 2020 | Database Trends, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
Many of us use and love relational databases… until we try and use them for purposes that aren’t their strong point. Queues, caches, catalogs, unstructured data, counters, and many other use cases, can be solved with relational databases, but are better served by...
by Robert Bernier | Jun 25, 2020 | Database Trends, Insight for DBAs, Security
Today I’m going to talk about my favorite trope, “database security”. When done right, a good security policy not only protects your data but improves performance, system stability, and enhances the development life-cycle. When done wrong it not only...
by Matt Yonkovit | May 26, 2020 | Database Trends, MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software
Billy Duberstein’s article, If You Invested $1000 in MongoDB’s IPO, This Is How Much Money You’d Have Now, illustrated how much money you would have made if you had invested in the MongoDB IPO — over five times what you bought in at! Although that’s...
by Matt Yonkovit | Apr 30, 2020 | Database Trends, Open Source
This post is the last in a four-part blog series by Matt Yonkovit, Percona Chief Experience Officer. Read Matt’s other blogs in the series here – “Baseline Data and the Size of the Market”, “Migrating from Proprietary Software to Open...
by Matt Yonkovit | Apr 22, 2020 | Database Trends, Open Source
A four-part blog series by Matt Yonkovit, Percona Chief Experience Officer. Read Matt’s other blogs in this series – “Baseline Data and the Size of the Market”, “Migrating from Proprietary Software to Open Source”, and “When...
by Matt Yonkovit | Apr 14, 2020 | Database Trends, Open Source
A four-part blog series by Matt Yonkovit, Percona Chief Experience Officer. Read Matt’s other blogs in this series – “Baseline Data and the Size of the Market”, “The Most Popular Open Source Databases 2020”, and “When is Open...
by Matt Yonkovit | Apr 7, 2020 | Database Trends, Open Source
A four-part blog series by Matt Yonkovit, Percona Chief Experience Officer. Read Matt’s other blogs in this series – “Migrating from Proprietary Software to Open Source”, “The Most Popular Open Source Databases 2020′, and...
