by Gautam | Jul 17, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
In the previously posted blog, Compaction in Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB), we discussed how compact works before version 4.4. In this blog, we will see how compact works on PSMDB 6.0. I recommend reading the blog post linked above to understand what compact...
by Pete Scott | Jul 17, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
MongoDB Community Edition software might set the stage for achieving your high-volume database goals, but you quickly learn that its features fall short of your enterprise needs. So you look at MongoDB Enterprise software, but its costly and complex licensing...
by Ivan Groenewold | Jul 10, 2024 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software
Percona Everest is the first open source platform designed for automated database provisioning and management. It supports multiple database technologies and can be hosted on any Kubernetes infrastructure, in the cloud or on-premises. It provides an easy-to-use web...
by Jean da Silva | Jul 1, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Configuring and managing backups is one of the top priorities among the many tasks we deal with daily in our database instances. In this context, it’s not rare to see deployments with more than one mongod process running per node, creating a multi-instance...
by Sveta Smirnova | Jun 12, 2024 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
Percona Toolkit 3.6.0 has been released on June 12, 2024. The most important updates in this version are: The possibility to resume pt-online-schema-change if it is interrupted. eu-stack support in pt-pmp that significantly improves this tool’s performance and...
by Edith Puclla | May 30, 2024 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Percona is thrilled to announce the release of ARM support in Percona Operator for MongoDB 1.16.0. This new feature addresses one of our community’s top requests and opens up exciting new possibilities for our users. What is ARM, and why is it important? ARM is...
by Sergey Pronin | May 29, 2024 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software
This is the second part of the series of blog posts unmasking the complexity of MongoDB cluster exposure in Kubernetes with Percona Operator for MongoDB. In the first part, we focused heavily on split horizons and a single replica set. In this part, we will expose a...
by Sergey Pronin | May 28, 2024 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software
by David Quilty | May 6, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Security
MongoDB offers powerful features and scalability, but like any database system, it has security challenges that must be addressed to protect sensitive data as well as comply with regulatory standards like GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and AM/ATF. A single breach can...
by David Quilty | Apr 18, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL
Welcome to the ultimate guide on how to boost your database performance! We’ve designed it to help you understand and improve the performance of your databases, regardless of your level of experience as a DBA or whether you manage databases for a small or large...
by Jan Wieremjewicz | Apr 10, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
February 2024 marked the end of life (EOL) of MongoDB 4.4. Another year, another EOL, is a fitting summary. Time goes by fast, and looking from this perspective, 5.0 is one we will soon also say goodbye to, as this year, 5.0 is also going EOL in October. Why is...
by Divyanshu Soni | Apr 5, 2024 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
by Michael Villegas | Apr 4, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
When you design a backup strategy, you need to think about the business requirements, as you will need to shape your backups to meet them. Let’s review the basics briefly; you need to define the RPO and RTO. The RPO stands for “Recovery Point Objective”, which means...
by Jean da Silva | Apr 3, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
by Jaime Sicam | Mar 27, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software, Security
Percona Server for MongoDB currently has several external authentication options, such as LDAP with SASL, LDAP, Kerberos, and AWS IAM. What is amazing is that SASL can authenticate with Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) too. This means that you still have...
by Mukesh Kumar | Mar 25, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
by Zelmar Michelini | Mar 14, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
Before MongoDB 4.4, we had a tool to use to analyze slow queries from the log file called mplotqueries from mtools (thanks, Thomas Rueckstiess, for the tool and the inspiration). Mplotqueries is a great tool that helped analyze slow queries on MongoDB Community,...
by Anil Joshi | Mar 13, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
In Using Percona Backup for MongoDB in Replica Set and Sharding Environment: Part One, I demonstrated a basic Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) setup under the Replica Set and Sharding environment. Now, here we will see some advanced stuff and other backup/restore...
by Jan Wieremjewicz | Mar 5, 2024 | MongoDB, Percona Software
Those memes that were super popular a couple of years ago show how you, your family, friends, and boss see your job vs. what you actually do. “Making sure we’re doing the right things” — that’s a one-sentence catchphrase I tell my relatives when asked what is Product...
by Anil Joshi | Feb 21, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Backups are crucial for every database system, and having a reliable, fast, and hot backup is the demand for next-generation database systems. Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) is a backup management tool that enhances the existing backup capability of MongoDB by...
