by Matt Yonkovit | Feb 9, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MongoDB
A few weeks ago I sat down and talked about tuning MongoDB memory settings with Mike Grayson, one of our MongoDB Database Engineers here at Percona. If you have not seen the video I would recommend it. Since then I have heard from people in the community about other...
by Nickolay Ihalainen | Jan 27, 2021 | Benchmarks, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL
I want to present a tool for running a specific version of open source databases in a single instance, replication setups, and Kubernetes. AnyDbVer deploys MySQL/MariaDB/MongoDB/PostgreSQL for testing and experiments. It Could Be Started By… Docker (or Podman)...
by Mike Grayson | Jan 26, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Monitoring, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a great way to monitor your MongoDB deployment for things like memory, CPU, inter-database metrics like wiredTiger cache utilization, read/write ticket utilization, Query Analytics, and many, many more. Did you know that in...
by Mike Grayson | Jan 22, 2021 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Kubernetes has become an integral part of many architectures and has continued to rise in popularity. Kubernetes is an open source platform for managing containerized workloads and services. One approach to running Kubernetes is Redhat’s OpenShift. OpenShift is...
by Przemysław Malkowski | Jan 14, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software, Security
by Corrado Pandiani | Jan 14, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software
Are you thinking about deploying MongoDB? Is it the right choice for you? Choosing a database is an important step when designing an application. A wrong choice can have a negative impact on your organization in terms of development and maintenance. Also, the wrong...
by David Quilty | Jan 7, 2021 | MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software, Webinars
Many organizations require an Enterprise subscription of MongoDB for the support coverage and additional features that it provides. However, many are unaware that there is an open source alternative offering all the features and benefits of a MongoDB Enterprise...
by Tomislav Plavcic | Jan 6, 2021 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
So far, Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB) has supported only managing replica sets, but from version 1.6.0 it is possible to start a sharding cluster, although at the moment only with one shard. This is a step toward supporting full...
by Stephen Thorn | Jan 4, 2021 | MongoDB, Percona Software, Webinars
We had great attendance, questions, and feedback from our “Converting MongoDB to Percona Server for MongoDB” webinar, which was recorded and can be viewed here. You can view another Q&A from a previous webinar on “Converting MongoDB to Percona Server for MongoDB”...
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 Daniil Bazhenov | Dec 2, 2020 | MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software
We continue to give away exclusive Percona swag for your honest reviews about our products. Today we are glad to announce a special winter set that works for the reviews on specific products. Percona is developing three excellent products created for MongoDB database...
by David Quilty | Nov 30, 2020 | MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software, Webinars
Please join Barrett Chambers, Percona Solutions Engineer, for an engaging webinar on MongoDB vs. Open Source. Many organizations require Enterprise subscriptions for the coverage and features that it provides. However, many are unaware that there is an open source...
by Ivan Groenewold | Nov 10, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) is our open source tool for backing up MongoDB clusters. Initially, the tool was developed for restoring the backups in the same environment they are taken. In this post, I will show you how to restore a backup to a new environment...
by Ivan Groenewold | Nov 5, 2020 | MongoDB, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
Normally it is quite easy to deploy Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Server as a Docker container as per the official documentation. However, when working in very restrictive environments, it is possible the server doesn’t have access to the public...
by Corrado Pandiani | Nov 5, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MongoDB, Percona Software
by David Quilty | Nov 5, 2020 | MongoDB, Percona Software, Webinars
We invite you to join members of the Percona Solution Engineering Team as they walk through the task of migrating a MongoDB database to Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB). By the end of this hands-on workshop you should feel comfortable with: Uninstalling MongoDB...
by David Quilty | Nov 3, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software, Webinars
There are many potential benefits to moving to the cloud such as increasing resources on the fly, multi-region infrastructure, and hardware maintenance, to mention only a few. On the other hand, there are critical points such as security (the latest was MEOW attack),...
by David Busby | Oct 23, 2020 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software
CVE-2020-26542 When using the SimpleLDAP authentication in conjunction with Microsoft’s Active Directory, Percona has discovered a flaw that would allow authentication to complete when passing a blank value for the account password, leading to access against the...
by Mike Grayson | Oct 19, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MongoDB, Monitoring, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is an open-source tool developed by Percona that allows you to monitor and manage your MongoDB, MySQL, and PostgreSQL databases. This blog will give you an overview of troubleshooting your MongoDB deployments with PMM. Let’s...
by Mike Grayson | Oct 19, 2020 | Insight for Developers, MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software
MongoDB is one of the most popular databases and is one of the easiest NoSQL databases to set up. Oftentimes, developers want a quick environment to just test out an idea they have for an application or to try and figure out a good data model for their data without...
