by Pep Pla | Sep 8, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Security
Percona has a great set of tools known as the Percona Toolkit, one of which is pt-upgrade. The idea behind this tool is to replay a captured sequence of queries that were executed on a different database server. This is very useful to validate if a new version of the...
by Radoslaw Szulgo | Aug 19, 2025 | Featured, MongoDB, Percona Software
Today, Percona is proud to announce the release of OpenID Connect (OIDC) support for Percona Server for MongoDB, the source-available, enterprise-grade MongoDB-compatible database solution trusted by developers and IT leaders globally. With this new capability,...
by Radoslaw Szulgo | Aug 7, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
As enterprise software vendors race toward proprietary cloud ecosystems, some features long relied upon by businesses are being quietly deprecated. One recent example is MongoDB Enterprise Advanced and Atlas dropping support for LDAP authentication, a foundational...
by Radoslaw Szulgo | Jul 31, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
On behalf of the entire Percona product team for MongoDB, I’m excited to announce a significant enhancement to Percona Server for MongoDB: File Copy-Based Initial Sync (FCBIS). It is designed to accelerate your large-scale database deployment with a more efficient...
by Ivan Groenewold | Jul 28, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
This post explains how to perform a Rolling Index Build on a Kubernetes environment running Percona Operator for MongoDB. Why and when to perform a Rolling Index Build? Building an index requires: CPU and I/O resources Database locks (even if brief) Network bandwidth...
by Ivan Groenewold | Jul 21, 2025 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
by Ivan Groenewold | Jul 7, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Want to spin up fully functional environments for trying out Percona Server for MongoDB, complete with Percona’s backup and monitoring solutions in minutes? We recently made our automation framework publicly available, which makes it easy to create and manage...
by Corrado Pandiani | Jun 26, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
MongoDB has always made it relatively easy to scale horizontally, but with version 8.0, the database takes a significant step forward. If you’re working with large datasets or high-throughput applications, some of the changes in this release will make your life...
by Radoslaw Szulgo | Jun 17, 2025 | MongoDB, Percona Software
Percona commits to delivering robust, enterprise-grade, and community-driven software for MongoDB. We build our databases and tools to meet evolving data needs. As MongoDB continues to evolve, we’ve updated and clarified our release strategy for the Percona...
by David Quilty | May 16, 2025 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
Let’s be honest: Getting MongoDB up and running quickly in the cloud sounds fantastic. Services like MongoDB Atlas promise easy deployment, automated scaling, and hands-off management on AWS, Azure, and GCP. For teams looking to shed operational burdens, the...
by Daniel Almeida | May 6, 2025 | Benchmarks, MongoDB, Open Source
by David Quilty | May 2, 2025 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software
If you’ve tried running MongoDB on Kubernetes, you’ve likely run into some unique challenges. Stateful workloads like replica sets and sharded clusters can be messy in containers, and things that should be easy, like backups, scaling, failovers, and...
by Pablo Claudino | Apr 23, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
It is generally known and established that different database versions provide different sets of features and performance rates. Along with the binary versions, MongoDB has a property called Feature Compatibility Value, which allows administrators to run a binary...
by Vinicius Grippa | Apr 22, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Services
One of our customers recently reported that MongoDB’s diagnostic metrics—collected via FTDC (Full-Time Diagnostic Data Capture)—had stopped updating. As a result, no metrics were being collected, either through diagnostic data files or the getDiagnosticData command....
by David Quilty | Apr 14, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
If you’re using MongoDB, whether it’s the Community Edition, Enterprise Advanced, or Atlas, you’ve probably asked yourself at some point: what is this actually costing us? And the answer isn’t always easy to pin down. The reality is that there’s no...
by Mario García | Apr 3, 2025 | Insight for Developers, MongoDB
This post was originally published in April, 2023 and was updated in April, 2025. Binary Javascript Object Notation (BSON) is a binary-encoded serialization of JSON documents. JSON is easier to understand as it is human-readable, but compared to BSON, it...
by Divyanshu Soni | Apr 2, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
This blog was originally published in September 2020 and was updated in April 2025. As a MongoDB user, ensuring your data is safe and secure in the event of a disaster or system failure is crucial. That’s why it’s essential to implement effective MongoDB...
by Pete Scott | Apr 1, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
This post was originally published in April 2023 and was updated in April 2025. When asked “Is MongoDB open source?”, at Percona, our definitive answer is “no.” Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available...
by Sergey Pronin | Apr 1, 2025 | Cloud, MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software
This blog was originally published in August 2022 and was updated in April 2025. In this blog, we’ll examine the increasingly popular practice of running MongoDB on Kubernetes. We will explore various solutions and approaches to this setup, from direct deployments as...
by Zelmar Michelini | Mar 26, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MongoDB
Everyone knows that MongoDB has FTDC (Full-Time Diagnostic Data Capture), which helps MongoDB engineers analyze server behavior, tune parameters, and conduct forensic work when issues occur within their clusters. Here at Percona, we’ve been using the Keyhole...
