by Vinodh Krishnaswamy | Dec 30, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Storage Engine
by Pep Pla | Dec 30, 2021 | MongoDB, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management 2 (PMM2) is the database monitoring suite assembled and developed by Percona. It is based on standard open source components and custom-made software integrations. PMM2 helps you reduce complexity, optimize performance, and improve...
by Dmitriy Kostiuk | Dec 21, 2021 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software
If you have ever used backups with Percona Distribution for MongoDB Operator, you should already know that backed-up data is stored outside the Kubernetes cluster – on Amazon S3 or any S3-compatible storage. Storage types not compatible with the S3 protocol were...
by Tomislav Plavcic | Dec 21, 2021 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software
As we all know, security is very important these days and we read about many data leaks. Security has many aspects, but one of the most important is securing data since it is a vital asset to companies. When we speak about data, it can be encrypted at rest...
by IP | Nov 4, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MongoDB
Since version 4.2, MongoDB provides a new interesting feature called Externally Sourced Configuration File Values. It allows administrators to specify that particular variables will have their values loaded from an external resource. The external resources that are...
by Corrado Pandiani | Oct 20, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MongoDB
by Oleksandr Miroshnychenko | Oct 19, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Following this series of blog posts started by Evgeniy Patlan: How to Manually Build Percona Server for MySQL RPM Packages How to Build Percona Server for MySQL From Sources we’ll show you how to build Percona Server for MongoDB for various operating systems¹...
by Sergey Pronin | Oct 13, 2021 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
This blog post is the last in the series of articles on migrating databases to Kubernetes with Percona Operators. Two previous posts can be found here: Migrating PostgreSQL to Kubernetes Migration of a MySQL Database to a Kubernetes Cluster Using Asynchronous...
by Sergey Pronin | Oct 8, 2021 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software
As per the glossary, Disaster Recovery (DR) protocols are an organization’s method of regaining access and functionality to its IT infrastructure in events like a natural disaster, cyber attack, or even business disruptions related to the COVID-19 pandemic. When we...
by Vinodh Krishnaswamy | Oct 5, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Monitoring, Percona Software
As a DBA, it is important to monitor a database to help us troubleshoot or to understand the health of an instance. Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM v2) is open-source and does a great job in monitoring the databases like MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. In this...
by Daniil Bazhenov | Oct 1, 2021 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events, PostgreSQL
Percona serves several communities including MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB. The Percona Community Team is committed to promoting content and technical advice on open source database technologies and needs. Hence, we organize monthly MeetUps as a series of regular...
by David Quilty | Sep 14, 2021 | MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Events, Webinars
Have a burning question about MongoDB? Database experts will be leading an open forum discussion based on attendees’ interests. Are you ahead of the curve? Just trying to keep up? Get the best of MongoDB. Live Stream: October 13 at 11:30 am CT (30 min) Watch this...
by Ivan Groenewold | Sep 10, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
by Corrado Pandiani | Aug 24, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MongoDB
by Lenz Grimmer | Aug 17, 2021 | MongoDB, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Software
Over the weekend, the Debian project announced the availability of their newest major distribution release, Debian 11 (code name “bullseye”). We’d like to congratulate the Debian project and the open source community for achieving this major milestone! With over two...
by Lenz Grimmer | Aug 17, 2021 | MongoDB, Percona Announcements, Percona Software
We’re happy to announce the first release candidate of Percona Server for MongoDB version 5.0.2 (PSMDB). It is now available for download from the Percona website and via the Percona Software Repositories. Percona Server for MongoDB 5.0.2 is an enhanced,...
by Jean da Silva | Aug 11, 2021 | Database Trends, Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MongoDB
Quite often we see that the main operational storage is used in conjunction with some additional services, for example, for caching or full-text search. Another architecture approach using multiple databases is microservices, where every microservice has its own...
by Rafael Galinari | Jul 28, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MongoDB
Updating documents on MongoDB prior to version 4.2 was quite limited. It was not possible to set values to a conditional expression, combine fields, or update a field based on the value of another field on the server-side. Tracing a parallel to the SQL update...
by Sergey Pronin | Jul 28, 2021 | Cloud, MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software
Recently I wanted to play with the latest and greatest Percona Distribution for MongoDB Operator which had a bug fix I was interested in. The bug fix was merged in the main branch of the git repository, but no version of the Operator that includes this fix was...
by Rachel Pescador | Jul 23, 2021 | MongoDB, Percona Software, Webinars
Fiserv, a Percona customer, will discuss the business case and results they achieved working with Percona to run MongoDB. Register for a Fireside Chat taking place on Tuesday, July 27, 1 PM EDT! If you use MongoDB to build business applications that need to scale...