by Radoslaw Szulgo | Aug 19, 2025 | Featured, MongoDB, Percona Software
Today, Percona is proud to announce the release of OpenID Connect (OIDC) support for Percona Server for MongoDB, the source-available, enterprise-grade MongoDB-compatible database solution trusted by developers and IT leaders globally. With this new capability,...
by Radoslaw Szulgo | Jul 31, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
On behalf of the entire Percona product team for MongoDB, I’m excited to announce a significant enhancement to Percona Server for MongoDB: File Copy-Based Initial Sync (FCBIS). It is designed to accelerate your large-scale database deployment with a more efficient...
by Corrado Pandiani | Jun 26, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
MongoDB has always made it relatively easy to scale horizontally, but with version 8.0, the database takes a significant step forward. If you’re working with large datasets or high-throughput applications, some of the changes in this release will make your life...
by Pete Scott | Apr 1, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
This post was originally published in April 2023 and was updated in April 2025. When asked “Is MongoDB open source?”, at Percona, our definitive answer is “no.” Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available...
by Ivan Groenewold | Feb 4, 2025 | Benchmarks, MongoDB, Percona Software
Percona Server for MongoDB 8.0 has been available for over a month now. We covered the most important new MongoDB features in a previous blog post. Earlier versions of MongoDB have a history of becoming slower with every major release, which is common with most...
by Kai Wagner | Jan 21, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
MongoDB has long been a favorite in the database community and is renowned for its flexibility and performance as a NoSQL solution. However, MongoDB Inc. chose to close-source the code of its Enterprise Advanced Server and, on top of that, reduced the value of the...
by Konstantin Trushin | Aug 9, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software, Security
Data-at-rest encryption (also known as transparent data encryption or TDE) is a necessary mechanism for ensuring the security of a DBMS deployment. Upcoming releases of Percona Server for MongoDB extend that mechanism with the KMIP key state polling feature. In this...
by Pablo Claudino | Aug 5, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Companies use specific database versions because they’re proven performers or because it’s hard to keep up with frequent releases. But lagging behind has some major issues. When it’s time to upgrade, is it better to update binaries through each major revision or skip...
by Gautam | Jul 17, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
In the previously posted blog, Compaction in Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB), we discussed how compact works before version 4.4. In this blog, we will see how compact works on PSMDB 6.0. I recommend reading the blog post linked above to understand what compact...
by Pete Scott | Jul 17, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
MongoDB Community Edition software might set the stage for achieving your high-volume database goals, but you quickly learn that its features fall short of your enterprise needs. So you look at MongoDB Enterprise software, but its costly and complex licensing...
by Jean da Silva | Apr 3, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
by Jaime Sicam | Mar 27, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software, Security
Percona Server for MongoDB currently has several external authentication options, such as LDAP with SASL, LDAP, Kerberos, and AWS IAM. What is amazing is that SASL can authenticate with Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) too. This means that you still have...
by Gautam | Oct 11, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
In this blog post, we will discuss how we can migrate data from MongoDB Atlas to self-hosted MongoDB. There are a couple of third-party tools in the market to migrate data from Atlas to Pecona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB), like MongoPush, Hummingbird, and MongoShake....
by Jan Wieremjewicz | Oct 10, 2023 | MongoDB, Percona Software
Databases are different from a lot of software. For one, they often favor stability over innovation. This is not a general rule, but as databases are responsible for a core layer of any IT system – data storage and processing — they require reliability. This...
by Vinicius Grippa | Aug 1, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software, Security
This blog was originally published on August 10, 2020, and was updated on August 1, 2023. “I think most of the time hackers behind the attacks do it just for fun, because they can and because it’s very simple”, — says Diachenko. Source: “Meowing” attack...
by Gautam | Jun 29, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
by Jan Wieremjewicz | May 15, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Enjoy it while it lasts, as everything has its end. It sounded a bit more cryptic than it was planned, but I hope that it gets the attention it needs, as it’s important to know that MongoDB 4.2 in April has reached its End of Life (EOL), and more versions are soon...
by Jan Wieremjewicz | Apr 28, 2023 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software, Security
Did you notice that Percona Server for MongoDB 6.0.5-4 was released just a few days ago? This time around, it introduced improvements to the way we handle master key rotation for data at rest encryption as well as AWS IAM integration. One key to rule them all —...
by Kimberly Wilkins | Apr 13, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
MongoDB v4.2 was released in August 2019. And like previous versions, there is a time to go — and that End of Life (EOL) date approaches. MongoDB v4.2 EOL is set for April 30, 2023. Since Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB) is a fully compatible replacement for the...
by Santo Leto | Apr 10, 2023 | MongoDB, Percona Announcements, Percona Software
Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) is an open source, distributed, and low-impact solution for consistent backups of MongoDB sharded clusters and replica sets. With PBM v2.0.0, the ability to take physical backups, in addition to logical ones, has been made Generally...
