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...
by Ivan Groenewold | Jul 8, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software, Security
Percona Server for MongoDB supports two different ways of authenticating against an LDAP service: operating system libraries (aka Native LDAP) saslauthd (aka LDAP proxy) We’ve talked about the LDAP proxy option many times already. In this post, I am going to...
by Kimberly Wilkins | Jul 8, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
by Rachel Pescador | Jul 8, 2021 | MongoDB, Percona Events
Calling all MongoDB users and enthusiasts! MongoDB 5.0 has been out as a release candidate for a short while, and the production release should be coming soon. Take advantage of a unique opportunity to get the scoop on what’s in MongoDB 5.0 at 11 am EDT TODAY! Join...
by Rafael Galinari | Jul 6, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
This article was written with the main purpose of showing you how to determine zones on a shard when using compound shard keys. Defining Zones in Shards means pre-defining where certain chunks will be stored and amongst which set of particular shards they will be...
by Kimberly Wilkins | Jul 5, 2021 | MongoDB, Percona Events, Percona Software
If you love using MongoDB databases, you’ll want to tune in to this live-stream event ‘Percona and Friends React to MongoDB live’ at 11:00 AM EDT on July 15. Watch or listen as industry experts from Percona, Southbank Software, and Qarbine respond to MongoDB’s...
by Vinodh Krishnaswamy | Jun 30, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
In every new version of MongoDB, there have been a lot of changes and newly introduced features. One such change is the introduction of setDefaultRWConcern command from MongoDB 4.4. This feature has caused multi-document transaction writes to fail for one of my...
by Dmitriy Kostiuk | Jun 23, 2021 | Cloud, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
At some point, your needs for improving database performance may run into a threshold where optimization and tuning are no longer enough. If you cannot change the database engine and can no longer tune the parameters for your workload, you need to use scaling. As it...
by Akira Kurogane | Jun 22, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Storage Engine
by Rachel Pescador | Jun 21, 2021 | MongoDB, Percona Services, Percona Software
In just under a month, MongoDB will host its annual event, MongoDB.live. And just over a month ago, Percona held its annual event Percona Live. Despite the naming convention similarity, these events couldn’t be more different! Percona Live was an open source database...
by David Quilty | Jun 15, 2021 | MongoDB, Percona Software, Webinars
Join Percona experts Michal Nosek and Dimitri Vanoverbeke as they walk through the task of migrating a MongoDB database to Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB). BY THE END OF THIS HANDS-ON WORKSHOP YOU WILL BE ABLE TO: – Uninstall MongoDB and install Percona...
by Ivan Groenewold | Jun 14, 2021 | MongoDB, Monitoring, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) recently introduced the Integrated Alerting feature as a technical preview. This was a very eagerly awaited feature, as PMM doesn’t need to integrate with an external alerting system anymore. Recently we blogged about the...
by IP | Jun 10, 2021 | Cloud, MongoDB, Security
MongoDB supports multiple authentication mechanisms, including the default one SCRAM, LDAP, Kerberos, and x.509 Certificate Authentication. In the X.509 system, which will be the main point of this blog post, an organization can identify its entities using a pair of...
