by Aleksandra Abramova | Nov 16, 2021 | Open Source, Percona Events
We love supporting communities and open source. One of the things we are thrilled about at Percona is hybrid and in-person conferences coming back this fall. Local events are a perfect opportunity to meet and reinforce you, community members, and open source lovers,...
by Rachel Pescador | Oct 4, 2021 | Database Trends, Open Source
Complete the 2021 Open Source Data Management Software Survey to share your knowledge and experience, and help inform the open source database community. In 2020 we ran our second Open Source Data Management Software Survey. This resulted in some interesting data on...
by Lenz Grimmer | May 21, 2021 | MySQL, Open Source, Percona Software, Storage Engine
Back in December 2018, when we announced the general availability of Percona Server for MySQL 8.0, we also announced that the TokuDB Storage Engine has been marked as “deprecated” in this release, recommending to use the MyRocks Storage Engine as an alternative. We...
by Rachel Pescador | May 12, 2021 | Database Trends, Open Source, Percona Live
A survey of 200 IT decision-makers from medium to large enterprises was conducted in Q1 of 2021 by Vanson Bourne and sponsored by Percona in advance of Percona Live ONLINE 2021, which started today! Percona Live Online represents dozens of projects, communities, and...
by Vadim Yalovets | Apr 16, 2021 | Cloud, Monitoring, Open Source, Percona Software
The Microsoft Azure SQL Database is among the most popular databases of 2020, according to DB-Engine’s DBMS of the Year award. Also, it’s steadily climbing up in DB-Engines Ranking. The ranking is updated monthly and places database management systems...
by Tom Basil | Apr 14, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, Open Source, Percona Software
You can earn Percona swag by writing a short technical review about Percona software by May 30, 2021! The keyword here is technical. Percona is seeking reviews that describe Percona software use in particular environments or in solving particular issues, and why!...
by Matt Yonkovit | Feb 24, 2021 | Open Source, Percona Announcements
Great news! Percona’s Community-focused podcast, hosted by none other than the HOSS (Head of Open Source Software) himself (yeah, that is me), is now available on almost all podcast platforms. What? You didn’t know we had a podcast? We do, and we’ve had...
by Akira Kurogane | Feb 15, 2021 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers
For MongoDB data directories only XFS is recommended. The ext4 filesystem isn’t so bad but when there are a very, very high number of random accesses (which WiredTiger can reach) it can hit a bottleneck. To be fair most deployments will never hit this...
by Matt Yonkovit | Feb 5, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, Open Source, Percona Events
If you have not heard, this weekend is FOSDEM. FOSDEM this year is virtual (and open to all), and it looks like it is going to be an absolutely stellar lineup of open source content. The details: February 6-7th, 2021, with over 600 speakers, over 700 sessions, and...
by Peter Zaitsev | Feb 2, 2021 | Database Trends, Insight for DBAs, Open Source
After MongoDB switched to SSPL I wrote part one of this article, titled “Why MongoDB’s SSPL is Bad For You”. At the time it was a MongoDB phenomenon, though over the last 2+ years more companies (typically VC-funded unicorns or public companies) changed licenses to...
by Nickolay Ihalainen | Jan 27, 2021 | Benchmarks, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL
I want to present a tool for running a specific version of open source databases in a single instance, replication setups, and Kubernetes. AnyDbVer deploys MySQL/MariaDB/MongoDB/PostgreSQL for testing and experiments. It Could Be Started By… Docker (or Podman)...
by Matt Yonkovit | Jan 20, 2021 | Database Trends, Open Source
Last week Elastic announced that they were “Doubling Down” on open source by changing their licensing to a non-open license – MongoDB’s Server Side Public License, or SSPL. Let me clarify in my opinion this is not doubling down – unless, as our good...
by Matt Yonkovit | Jan 13, 2021 | Database Trends, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL
The Percona team provided the community with some excellent content and several new releases in 2020. I wanted to highlight some of your favorites (based on popularity) if you missed them. First up is our most-read blog from last year, which ironically was published...
by Sri Sakthivel | Jan 11, 2021 | MySQL, Open Source, Percona Software
In this blog, I am going to explain the different ways of electing the PRIMARY node in MySQL group replication. Before MySQL 8.0.2, primary election was based on the member’s UUID, with the lowest UUID elected as the new primary in the event of a failover. From...
by Michael Patrick | Jan 8, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL, Open Source
It has been some time since I have posted updates to my plugins. After the initial version, I decided to split the plugins into categories of metrics. This will allow users to choose whether they want to install all of the plugins or only select ones they care...
by Matt Yonkovit | Jan 7, 2021 | Database Trends, Open Source, PostgreSQL
For the third time in the last five years, PostgreSQL took home the Database of the Year award from DB-Engines. If you have not checked out DB-Engines before, they track databases’ popularity by looking at job openings, blog posts, search traffic, and more....
by Brian Sumpter | Jan 5, 2021 | Database Trends, Insight for DBAs, Open Source, Percona Services
One of the great things about being a Technical Account Manager (TAM, for short) at Percona is having the opportunity to see a wide variety of issues across many clients, and having the space to identify the common threads that seem to bind many of these issues. While...
by Brandon Fleisher | Dec 18, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Open Source, Percona Software
As strange as it sounds, there are types of software applications that are designed for users to NOT spend each minute of every day within the application (where the goal of so many software applications is to attract as many “eyeballs” for as long as possible to...
by Matt Yonkovit | Dec 17, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Open Source, Percona Software
Hello everyone! I wanted to outline a new program we are trying out. We are calling it, Percona Open Source Expert Missions. So, you might be asking… What the heck is that? An Expert Mission is a challenge or a contest of skill. Here at Percona, we are always looking...
by Sri Sakthivel | Dec 16, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Open Source
MySQL Shell is an advanced client tool that has many features and is easy to use. The recent MySQL release (MySQL 8.0.22) has the utility “exportTable()”, which supports exporting the data into a file from a table using MySQL shell. The exported data file can be...
