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...
by Pablo Claudino | Jan 3, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
by Radoslaw Szulgo | Dec 17, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Announcements, Percona Software
MongoDB Community Edition 8.0 has been available since October. At Percona, we took the time to examine this release carefully, check performance, and guarantee it works perfectly, stand-alone, and with other tools like Percona Backup for MongoDB and Percona...
by Zelmar Michelini | Dec 2, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
Inconsistent index distribution across shards in a MongoDB sharded cluster is more common than you think, and it occurs because the user creates indexes directly in the shards without using MongoS. This issue can lead to migration failures during chunk migrations,...
by Ivan Groenewold | Oct 30, 2024 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) supports snapshot-based physical backups. This is made possible by the backup cursor functionality present in Percona Server for MongoDB. In a previous post, we discussed Percona Backup for MongoDB and Disk Snapshots in Amazon AWS and...
by Ivan Groenewold | Oct 21, 2024 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
by Ivan Groenewold | Oct 15, 2024 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) supports snapshot-based physical backups. This is made possible by the backup cursor functionality present in Percona Server for MongoDB. In a previous post, we discussed Percona Backup for MongoDB and Disk Snapshots in Google Cloud...
by Ivan Groenewold | Oct 2, 2024 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) supports snapshot-based physical backups. This is made possible by the backup cursor functionality present in Percona Server for MongoDB. The flow of snapshot-based physical backup consists of these stages: Preparing the database...
by Corrado Pandiani | Sep 30, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
MongoDB provides scalability and high availability at ease. If you already have a sharded cluster, you know for sure what the Balancer does. If you are not an experienced MongoDB user, the Balancer is one of the key components of a sharded cluster, and the main goal...
by Ivan Groenewold | Sep 26, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
Recently, one of our customers reported a problem after upgrading a sharded cluster from MongoDB 5.0 to 6.0. The upgrade of data-bearing nodes was fine, but in the final part of the process, where mongos routers needed to be restarted, the new version did not go well....
by Agustin Palazuelos | Sep 11, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
MongoDB high availability is essential to ensure reliability, customer satisfaction, and business resilience in an increasingly interconnected and always-on digital environment. Ensuring high availability for database systems introduces complexity, as databases are...
by Vinodh Krishnaswamy | Sep 9, 2024 | Benchmarks, Database Trends, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Open Source
