by Jon Tobin | Dec 16, 2016 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software
In this blog is an in-depth discussion of MongoDB PIT backups. Note: INTIMIDATION FREE ZONE!! This post is meant to give the reader most of the knowledge that is needed to understand the material. This includes basic MongoDB knowledge and other core concepts. I have...
by Dave Avery | Dec 16, 2016 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MariaDB, MongoDB, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
We are excited to announce that the sneak peek schedule for the Percona Live 2017 Open Source Database Conference is up! The Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017 is April 24th – 27th, at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara & The Santa Clara Convention...
by Rick Golba | Dec 14, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, MySQL
In this blog post, we’ll discuss the differences between row store and column store databases. Clients often ask us if they should or could be using columnar databases. For some applications, a columnar database is a great choice; for others, you should stick...
by Dave Avery | Dec 13, 2016 | MongoDB, Webinars
Please join Percona Senior Technical Operations Architect Tim Vaillancourt on Wednesday December 14, at 10:00 am PST/ 1:00pm EST (UTC-8) as he presents MongoDB System Tuning Best Practices. People give much love to optimizing document design, provisioning, and even...
by Tim Vaillancourt | Dec 13, 2016 | MongoDB
This blog discusses MongoDB 3.4 GA facet aggregation features and the SERVER-27395 mongod crash bug. As you may have heard, in late November MongoDB 3.4 GA was released. One feature that stuck out for me, a Lucene enthusiast, was the addition of powerful grouping and...
by Roman Vynar | Dec 12, 2016 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.0.7. The Percona Monitoring and Management Server (PMM) is distributed through Docker Hub, PMM Client – through tarball or system packages. The instructions for installing or upgrading PMM are...
by Roman Vynar | Dec 9, 2016 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.1.7. Changelog New Nagios script pmp-check-mongo.py for MongoDB. Added MySQL socket and flag options to Cacti PHP script. Added disk volume check on “Mounted on” in addition to...
by Tim Vaillancourt | Dec 8, 2016 | MongoDB
In a previous blog post: “Tuning Linux for MongoDB,” I covered several tunings for an efficient MongoDB deployment on Linux in Production. This post expands on that one. While I felt the tuning Linux for MongoDB was a very useful blog post that results in...
by Adamo Tonete | Dec 7, 2016 | MongoDB
by Alexey Zhebel | Dec 7, 2016 | MongoDB, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MongoDB 3.2.11-3.1 on December 7, 2016. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. Percona Server for MongoDB 3.2.11-3.1 is an enhanced, open-source, fully compatible,...
by Kortney Runyan | Dec 5, 2016 | MongoDB, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Live
We are excited to announce that the tutorial schedule for the Percona Live 2017 Open Source Database Conference is up! The Percona Live 2017 Open Source Database Conference 2017 is April 24th – 27th, at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara & The Santa Clara...
by Alexey Zhebel | Nov 28, 2016 | MongoDB, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MongoDB 3.0.14-1.9 on November 28, 2016. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. Percona Server for MongoDB 3.0.14-1.9 is an enhanced, open source, fully...
by Sveta Smirnova | Nov 18, 2016 | MongoDB
In this blog, I will provide answers to the Q & A for the WiredTiger B-Tree versus WiredTiger In-Memory webinar. First, I want to thank everybody for attending the October, 13 webinar. The recording and slides for the webinar are available here. Below is the list...
by Peter Zaitsev | Nov 17, 2016 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events
Let us know what you think about Percona, and what we should be thinking about for the future. Over the last ten years, Percona has grown considerably. We’ve moved from being a strictly MySQL company, to a company that supports MongoDB and other open source...
by Jon Tobin | Nov 16, 2016 | Cloud, MongoDB, MySQL
This blog post reviews the appropriateness of Docker and other container solutions for your database environment. A few weeks back, I wrote a fairly high-level blog post about containers. It covered what you should consider when thinking about using Docker, rkt, LXC,...
by Alexey Zhebel | Nov 15, 2016 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software, ProxySQL
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.0.6 on November 15, 2016. PMM Server is distributed through Docker Hub PMM Client packages are available on the download page The instructions for installing or upgrading Percona Monitoring and...
by Barrett Chambers | Nov 14, 2016 | MongoDB, MySQL
This blog post looks at MongoDB and MySQL, and covers high-level MongoDB strengths, weaknesses, features, and uses from the perspective of an SQL user. Delving into NoSQL coming from an exclusively SQL background can seem like a daunting task. I have worked with SQL...
by Kortney Runyan | Nov 8, 2016 | MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Live
We’ve extended the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017 call for papers deadline until November 13th! If you haven’t submitted already, please consider doing so. Speaking at Percona Live is a great way to build your personal and company brands, and...
by Dave Avery | Oct 31, 2016 | MongoDB, Webinars
Please join us on Wednesday, November 2, 2016 at 10:00 am PDT / 1:00pm EDT (UTC-7) for the webinar MongoDB Backups, All Grown Up, featuring David Murphy, Percona’s Mongo Practice Manager. It has been a long road to stable and dependable backups in the MongoDB...
by Kortney Runyan | Oct 26, 2016 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Live
The Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017 call for papers is closing soon! Get in your submissions ASAP! After this past sold-out Percona Live Europe in Amsterdam, we’ve decided that expansion definitely works! The diverse list of topics at the...
