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...
by David Quilty | Mar 19, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
If you’re running enterprise applications, you might be facing a common dilemma: cloud solutions offer great features, but regulatory constraints and data sovereignty laws might prevent you from using them fully. In fact, about 60% of enterprises struggle with...
by Mike Grayson | Mar 8, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Open Source
by David Quilty | Mar 4, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
This post was originally published in June 2024 and was updated in March 2025. MongoDB’s flexibility and speed make it a popular database choice, but as your data grows, managing and querying massive datasets can become challenging. This is where partitioning,...
by David Quilty | Mar 3, 2025 | Database Trends, MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software
Is your organization’s innovation being constrained by proprietary software restrictions? You’re not alone—these limitations are increasingly at odds with enterprise growth objectives, affecting both bottom lines and competitive agility. For years,...
by Santosh Varma | Mar 3, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software, Storage Engine
This post was originally published in March 2023 and was updated in March 2025. When it comes to optimizing MongoDB, compression is a key lever for reducing storage footprint, minimizing I/O bottlenecks, and even speeding up data transfer. The benefits are clear:...
by Vinodh Krishnaswamy | Mar 3, 2025 | MongoDB
This post was originally written in September 2018 and was updated in March 2025. MongoDB logs are essential for tracking operations and troubleshooting, but left unmanaged, they can quickly consume valuable disk space and even impact database performance. Proactively...
by Adamo Tonete | Mar 1, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
This blog was originally published in October 2017 and was updated in March 2025. Is your MongoDB database struggling with growth? Sharding might be the answer, but it’s a complex architectural change. Understanding MongoDB sharding best practices is crucial...
by Rafael Galinari | Mar 1, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
This blog was originally published in August of 2021 and updated in March of 2025. Need to get a MongoDB instance up and running quickly for development or testing? Docker offers a fantastic solution. This guide provides a practical walkthrough of the essential steps...
by Mike Grayson | Mar 1, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MongoDB
by David Quilty | Feb 18, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
At first glance, MongoDB Atlas seems like the perfect solution—an easy-to-use, fully managed cloud database that takes the hassle out of deployment and scaling. But as businesses grow, many discover that Atlas’s convenience comes at a cost—literally. Unpredictable...
by Ivan Groenewold | Feb 4, 2025 | Benchmarks, MongoDB, Percona Software
Percona Server for MongoDB 8.0 has been available for over a month now. We covered the most important new MongoDB features in a previous blog post. Earlier versions of MongoDB have a history of becoming slower with every major release, which is common with most...
by Jean da Silva | Feb 3, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
by Corrado Pandiani | Feb 2, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MongoDB
by Ivan Groenewold | Feb 1, 2025 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
by Kai Wagner | Jan 21, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
MongoDB has long been a favorite in the database community and is renowned for its flexibility and performance as a NoSQL solution. However, MongoDB Inc. chose to close-source the code of its Enterprise Advanced Server and, on top of that, reduced the value of the...
by Edith Puclla | Jan 16, 2025 | Cloud, MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software
The increase of cloud-native technologies is transforming how we manage databases. Since I stepped into the world of databases and cloud-native technologies, I have encountered several initiatives aimed at developing and optimizing database operations in the cloud,...
by Konstantin Trushin | Jan 10, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Security
When setting up data-at-rest encryption (also known as transparent data encryption) in Percona Server for MongoDB, one has three options for storing a master encryption key: Encryption key file on a filesystem, KMIP server, HashiCorp’s Vault. An encryption key...
