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...
by Akira Kurogane | Jun 7, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software, Storage Engine
Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB) has provided a ‘hot’ backup of its underlying data db directory files using WiredTiger library methods since v3.4. When you use the { createBackup: … } command it will copy them to whichever other filesystem...
by Vinicius Grippa | Jun 3, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Open Source
by Jean da Silva | Jun 2, 2021 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software, Security
One of the main topics we have today is surely about security. On a daily routine, this can pass unnoticed, but sooner or later, we have to implement or work on some security guidelines. And today, we are going to discuss one of them, which is Field Encryption. ...
by David Quilty | May 27, 2021 | MongoDB, Webinars
Do You Know How to Choose the Right MongoDB Shard Key for Your Business? In our upcoming panel, Percona MongoDB experts Mike Grayson, Kimberly Wilkins, and Vinicius Grippa will discuss the complex issue of MongoDB shard key selection and offer advice on the measures...
by Corrado Pandiani | May 24, 2021 | Hardware and Storage, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
It’s your busiest day of the year and the website has crawled to a halt and finally crashed… and it was all because you did not understand how MongoDB uses memory and left your system open to cluster instability, poor performance, and unpredictable...
by Denys Kondratenko | May 19, 2021 | MongoDB, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) is a managed database that doesn’t need to be installed and maintained but is instead provided as a service to the user. The Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) DBaaS component allows users to CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete)...
by Rafael Galinari | May 19, 2021 | MongoDB, Percona Software
This is a very straightforward article written with the intention to show you how easy it is to refresh your Test/Dev environments with PROD data, using Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM). This article will cover all the steps from the PBM configuration until the...
by Vadim Tkachenko | May 19, 2021 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software
Our recent releases of Percona Operator for MySQL based on Percona XtraDB Cluster 1.8 and Percona Operator for MongoDB 1.7 come with a new interesting feature: Support of custom sidecars. What is special about this? There is often a need to customize the default...
