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...
by Evgeniy Patlan | Dec 15, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Open Source, Percona Software
How do you install an application? Nowadays a lot of companies want to use the latest technology and more and more of them are moving infrastructure to clouds. And in order to simplify maintenance, they are using Kubernetes. But still, the vast majority use the bare...
by Matt Yonkovit | Dec 15, 2020 | Database Trends, Insight for DBAs, Open Source
Covid-19 has had a significant impact on most aspects of our lives in 2020. Although some companies saw unexpected growth due to offering in-demand tools or services, I think most of us will be happy to draw a line under 2020 and hope for a better 2021. In the spirit...
by Peter Zaitsev | Dec 7, 2020 | MySQL, Open Source, Security
As you may know, MySQL 5.6 will reach EOL (“End of Life”) in February 2021. This means in about two months, there will be no more updates, and more importantly, no more security fixes for discovered vulnerabilities. You may be well ahead of the curve...
by Charly Batista | Dec 4, 2020 | MySQL, Open Source, Security
Getting MySQL working with self-signed SSL certificates is pretty simple. Having it working with a certificate signed by a trusted authority is also very simple, we just need to set the correct path and privileges to the file. The problem comes when we need to make...
by Steve Hoffman | Dec 1, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Open Source, Percona Software
When I was in the interview process here at Percona, I was told I’d be leading the team that delivered Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) and so naturally, I wanted to know just what that meant. I started researching the product and I got even more excited about...
by Rick Vasquez | Nov 17, 2020 | Database Trends, Insight for DBAs, Open Source, Percona Services
It’s that time of year! The Halloween decorations have come down and the leaves have started to change and the Black Friday/Cyber Monday buying season is upon us! For consumers, it can be a magical time of year, but for those of us that have worked in e-commerce or...
by David Quilty | Nov 3, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software, Webinars
There are many potential benefits to moving to the cloud such as increasing resources on the fly, multi-region infrastructure, and hardware maintenance, to mention only a few. On the other hand, there are critical points such as security (the latest was MEOW attack),...
by Rachel Pescador | Oct 29, 2020 | Database Trends, Open Source, Percona Announcements
At our recent Percona Live ONLINE we announced the release of the 2020 Open Source Data Management Software Survey results. This year, we wanted to build upon the data we collected in 2019 and continue to monitor the open source industry’s pulse. The 2020 survey was...
by Daniil Bazhenov | Oct 5, 2020 | Open Source, Percona Announcements, Percona Software
Would you like to get the latest in Percona gear 100% free, shipped to you anywhere in the world? Maybe that sounds too good to be true, but it’s true! It’s easy and takes as little as 20 minutes to earn your swag. Here are some examples of the swag items you can...
