by Martin Visser | Dec 5, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, Open Source, Valkey
Summary This article is a detailed analysis of the impact of the Redis license change to a non-open-source one on its community. To summarize the findings: 37.5% of contributors (9 of 24) stopped contributing to Redis after the fork Valkey grew from 18 to 49...
by Edith Puclla | Dec 4, 2025 | Cloud, MySQL
When we run databases in Kubernetes, we quickly learn one important truth: things will fail, and we need to be prepared for this. Pods are ephemeral; nodes can come and go, storage is abstracted behind PersistentVolumes and can be either local to a node or backed by...
by Peter Zaitsev | Dec 2, 2025 | Open Source
Percona is built on the belief that Freedom matters, especially in how organizations run and evolve their database infrastructure. Our mission is to help customers and the broader community maximize that Freedom by giving them control, transparency, and choice at...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Nov 26, 2025 | MySQL, Open Source
Where We Are We can all agree that the MySQL ecosystem isn’t in great shape right now. Take a look at Julia’s blog post [Analyzing the Heartbeat of the MySQL Server: A Look at Repository Statistics], which confirms what many of us have felt: Oracle...
by Kai Wagner | Oct 10, 2025 | Open Source, Percona Software
The following blog is my personal opinion and view on the world and our company. Open source is more than just code; it’s a philosophy. It’s about openness, honesty, integrity, and sharing in how we work and communicate, even when no one is watching. The saying...
by Yves Trudeau | Jul 23, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, MySQL, Open Source, PostgreSQL
Index maintenance can be a real challenge for anyone managing databases, and what makes it even trickier is that open source databases each handle it differently. In this post, we’ll take a closer look at how those differences show up in practice, and what they mean...
by Andrey Glazkov | May 28, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, Open Source, Valkey
Open wins again: What Valkey’s meteoric rise tells us about the future A product manager’s perspective on navigating an ecosystem in flux. When Redis Inc. changed its core product license, few anticipated how fast the aftershocks would reshape the caching world. But...
by Liz Warner | Mar 18, 2025 | Database Trends, Open Source, Percona Announcements
From punch cards to containerization, database technologies have changed tremendously over the years. And there has been no shortage of watershed moments along the way. However, we believe the emergence of advanced AI may very well be the most significant one yet. ...
by Peter Zaitsev | Dec 13, 2024 | Database Trends, Open Source
Over the last few years, there have been many calls to evolve the Open Source Definition (OSD) to fit the modern world. Some would like to see noncompetitive licenses such as the Server Side Public License (SSPL) or Elastic License considered open source. Others...
by Aleksandra Mitroshkina | Nov 12, 2024 | Cloud, Database Trends, Insight for DBAs, Open Source
Originally published on The New Stack. Building a flexible cloud strategy means making decisions that align with operational efficiency, cost management, and scalability. Public cloud platforms offer immense convenience but come with certain downsides. High long-term...
by Peter Zaitsev | Nov 1, 2024 | MySQL, Open Source, PostgreSQL
When I talk to old-timers in the MySQL community, I often hear this question: “How come MySQL is so awesome and still more popular than PostgreSQL (according to DB-Engines methodology at least), but it is losing ground while PostgreSQL’s growth in...
by Peter Zaitsev | Oct 28, 2024 | Database Trends, Open Source
Inspired by this comment in the Hacker News discussion, I posted polls on my LinkedIn network about the tendency (or perception of tendency) to abandon features without deprecating them in some of the most popular open source databases – MySQL, MariaDB, and...
by Peter Zaitsev | Oct 23, 2024 | Database Trends, Open Source
I have always been a big advocate of “Foundation”-run open source projects as being better compared to single-vendor projects, where there is a risk of a vendor unilaterally changing licenses or taking other “hostile” steps towards project users and the community and...
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 Peter Zaitsev | Apr 30, 2024 | Database Trends, Open Source, Valkey
For me, the Redis story starts with… Memcached. Back in the early 2000s, “Web 2.0” was being built following the aftermath of the dot-com crash. The open source LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP/Perl/Python) stack was all the rage. We needed to scale fast but also...
by Ann Schlemmer | Apr 16, 2024 | Open Source, Percona Announcements, Valkey
Percona is proud to formally state our support for the Valkey project and its community. We will soon offer commercial support for the open source Redis alternative, Valkey. The world of open source is no stranger to controversy. From its earliest beginnings, the...
by Peter Zaitsev | Mar 14, 2024 | Database Trends, Open Source
Open core is a monetization strategy for open source, where in addition to the open source version, often called “community,” there is an extended version, often called the “enterprise” version, with additional features. There is a lot of value for users of the open...
by Peter Zaitsev | Feb 26, 2024 | Database Trends, Open Source
There is a new controversy in the Linkerd community with reports that many Linkerd users will now need to pay to run the software, and it will only be available under a proprietary license. I do not think this is entirely correct. Here are my thoughts on this topic....
by David Quilty | Feb 8, 2024 | Database Trends, Open Source
The strategic adoption of different database technologies can make or break a company’s success and long-term viability. Among the many types of database software that companies can choose from, one type stands out for its ability to drive innovation, cut costs, and...
by Sonia Valeja | Feb 7, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, PostgreSQL
Backup management is the backbone of any reliable database administration strategy, and while pgBackRest simplifies this process, its default configuration often combines backup and expiry together. At times, due to slow network bandwidth, huge database sizes, or any...
