by Kate Obiidykhata | Dec 29, 2025 | Cloud, MongoDB
In 2025, the Percona Operator for MongoDB focused on the hardest parts of running MongoDB in Kubernetes: reliable backups and restores, clearer behavior during elections and restores, better observability at scale, and safer defaults as MongoDB 8.0 became mainstream....
by Corrado Pandiani | Dec 22, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Open Source
With MongoDB 8.0, the database engine takes another step forward in performance optimization, particularly in how it manages memory. One of the most impactful changes under the hood is the updated version of TCMalloc (Thread-Caching Malloc), which affects how the...
by Daniel Almeida | Dec 18, 2025 | Benchmarks, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
If you have ever tuned a MongoDB cluster that passed every synthetic benchmark with flying colors, only to choke the moment real user traffic hit, you are not alone. For years, database administrators and developers have relied on a standard suite of tools to test...
by Radoslaw Szulgo | Dec 3, 2025 | MongoDB, Percona Software
Your stack, Your rules. That’s our belief, and it’s non-negotiable. We see the landscape changing. With the massive community migration from CentOS and CentOS Stream to Rocky Linux, we heard your requests loud and clear. You need a trusted, enterprise-ready database...
by Pablo Claudino | Oct 22, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
On some occasions, we realize the necessity of throttling the number of requests that MongoDB tries to execute per second, be it due to resource saturation remediation, machine change planning, or performance tests. The most direct way of doing this is by tuning the...
by Corrado Pandiani | Sep 29, 2025 | Benchmarks, MongoDB, Percona Software
In a previous article, Scalability for the Large-Scale: File Copy-Based Initial Sync for Percona Server for MongoDB, we presented some early benchmarks of the new File Copy-Based Initial Sync (FCBIS) available in Percona Server for MongoDB. Those first results already...
by Radoslaw Szulgo | Sep 23, 2025 | MongoDB, Open Source, Security
At Percona, we believe that an open world is a better world. Our mission has always been to empower organizations with secure, scalable, and reliable open source database solutions without locking them into expensive proprietary ecosystems. Today, we’re excited to...
by Ivan Groenewold | Sep 15, 2025 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Ever needed a robust, highly available MongoDB setup that spans multiple Kubernetes clusters on GCP? This step-by-step guide shows you how to deploy the Percona Operator for MongoDB in two GKE clusters, linking them using Multi-Cluster Services (MCS) for seamless...
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...
