by Jean da Silva | Feb 3, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
by Mukesh Kumar | Jun 3, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
In this blog post, we will discuss how can we migrate from a replica set to sharded cluster. Before moving to migration let me briefly explain Replication and Sharding and why do we need to shard a replica Set. Replication: It creates additional copies of data and...
by Ivan Groenewold | Apr 28, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
If you have been working in the database field for some time, you have likely come across the need to create a new database, based on an existing one. The most common example I can think of is to create a copy of the production database for testing purposes. In the...
by David Murphy | Dec 26, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MongoDB, Open Source
In this blog, we’ll look at MongoDB 3.6 aggregation and array improvements. With MongoDB 3.6 out, and us having talked about security, transactions, and sessions, we can now start to talk about something much more fun. This blog is centered on the improvements...
by Colin Charles | Dec 11, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Webinars
Join Percona’s Chief Evangelist, Colin Charles as he presents 2017 Year in Review for Open Source Database Software on Wednesday, December 13, 2017 at 7:00 am PST / 10:00 am EST (UTC-8). Register Here 2017 is soon coming to an end, and it’s good to pause and...
by Dave Avery | Sep 7, 2017 | MySQL, Percona Live, PostgreSQL
Welcome to another post in our series of interview blogs for the upcoming Percona Live Europe 2017 in Dublin. This series highlights a number of talks that will be at the conference and gives a short preview of what attendees can expect to learn from the presenter....
by Jon Tobin | Mar 8, 2017 | MongoDB, Percona Software
This is another post in the series of blogs on the Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 bundle release. In this blog post, we’ll discuss moving away from the MMAPv1 storage engine. Introduction WIth the MongoDB v3.0 release in February of 2015, the long-awaited...
by Dave Avery | Dec 15, 2016 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Live
Welcome to a new series of blogs: Percona Live featured tutorial speakers! In these blogs, we’ll highlight some of the tutorial speakers that will be at this year’s Percona Live conference. We’ll also discuss how these tutorials can help you improve your database...
by Miguel Angel Nieto | Sep 16, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In this blog post, we’ll look at what MySQL does under the hood to transform NoSQL requests to SQL (and then store them in InnoDB transactional engine) when using the X Plugin. X Plugin allows MySQL to function as a document store. We don’t need to define...
by Kortney Runyan | Jan 22, 2016 | MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events
The Percona Live Data Performance Conference 2016 is rapidly approaching, and we’re looking forward to providing an outstanding experience April 18-21 for all whom attend. Percona Live is the premier event for the rich and diverse open source community and businesses...
by Kortney Runyan | Dec 29, 2015 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Events, Percona Live
We are excited to announce that the tutorial schedule for the Percona Live Data Performance Conference 2016 is up! The schedule shows all the details for each of our informative and enlightening Percona Live tutorial sessions, including insights into InnoDB, MySQL...
by Kortney Runyan | Dec 17, 2015 | Percona Events, Percona Live
On behalf of the Percona Live Conference Committee, I am excited to announce the sneak peek schedule for the Percona Live Data Performance Conference and Expo 2016! Percona Live Data Performance Conference and Expo Live 2016 will feature a variety of formal tracks and...
by Tom Diederich | Aug 13, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
Storage. Everyone needs it. Whether your data is in MySQL, a NoSQL, or somewhere in the cloud, with ever-growing data volumes – along with the need for SSDs to cut latency and replication to provide insurance – an organization’s storage footprint is an...
by Kortney Runyan | Jul 20, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
The Percona Live Data Performance Conference in Amsterdam is just two months away and it’s going to be an incredible event. With a new expanded focus on MySQL, NoSQL, and Data in the Cloud, this conference will be jam-packed with talks from some of the industry’s...
by Tom Diederich | Jul 9, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
The conference and tutorial schedule for Percona Live Europe 2015, September 21-23 in Amsterdam, was published this morning and this year’s event will focus on MySQL, NoSQL and Data in the Cloud. Conference sessions, which will follow each morning’s keynote addresses,...
by Kortney Runyan | Jun 10, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Live
Percona Live is moving from London to Amsterdam this year and the event is also expanding to three full days. Percona Live Europe 2015, September 21-23, will be at the Mövenpick Hotel Amsterdam City Centre. The call for speakers and Super Saver registration are now...
by Justin Swanhart | Feb 17, 2015 | MySQL
by Dave Rosenlund | Jan 22, 2015 | MySQL
Receive 20 FREE hours of MongoDB® consulting services if TokuMX does not improve your MongoDB application performance by at least 2x and/or reduce the size of your MongoDB database by 50% or more. Like A Finely Tuned Rally Car Like a finely tuned rally car, your big...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jan 8, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software, Webinars
Whether you’re looking at the overall MySQL ecosystem or the all-data management landscape, the choice of technologies has never been larger than it is in 2015. Having so many options is great but it also can be very hard to make a selection. I’m going to...
by Dave Rosenlund | Dec 16, 2014 | MySQL
UPDATE: Since the publication of this blog post, Tokutek subsequently published preliminary benchmark results for this new TokuMX sibling, now called TokuMXse. In addition, there have been a number of release candidates. Finally, MongoDB ultimately decided to call...