by Aleksandra Abramova | Sep 21, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, Open Source, Percona Software
October is close, and it is time for Hacktoberfest! If you love open source as much as we do, this event is created for you. It is a unique opportunity to be a part of a great open source community. And you get not only a memorable experience but also some fantastic...
by Jan Wieremjewicz | Sep 21, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
MongoDB is a cross-platform, document-oriented NoSQL database. It has been developed as an answer to the growing need for easy-to-use yet very performant, scalable, and content-agnostic storage. MongoDB has been widely adopted by engineers across application...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Sep 20, 2022 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
We are looking to provide simplified ways to deploy Percona software in cloud environments, especially for more advanced scenarios like replication and multi-node cluster (in the case of Percona XtraDB Cluster). For this I propose trying out our new Terraform...
by David Quilty | Sep 19, 2022 | Percona Services, Percona Software
It’s time for the release roundup! Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. Our Release Roundups...
by Daniel Guzmán Burgos | Sep 14, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
The all-new Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Home dashboard is the answer to some of the main concerns of our users: A clear entry point (where do I start?) Context (is everything okay?) How did we achieve this? By coming up with a redesign of the Home...
by David Quilty | Sep 6, 2022 | Percona Services, Percona Software
It’s time for the release roundup! Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. Our Release Roundups...
by Duygu Aksoy | Sep 2, 2022 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
In this v2.30 release, we have focused on improving Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) for usability, refining the dashboards (effortless root cause analysis), Database as a Service (DBaaS) functionality, and seamless onboarding to align with your needs. Your...
by David Stokes | Sep 1, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
You may have read MyRocks Use Case: Big Dataset and been intrigued enough to want to evaluate RocksDB with InnoDB. It has several advantages including requiring less storage space. So how do you start? On a fresh install of Percona Server for MySQL, install RocksDB...
by Peter Zaitsev | Sep 1, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
When you look at database performance, it does not only depend on internal database operations but also on things going on in the operating system, network, storage system, hardware, etc. With that, if you’re building software to help analyze and optimize database...
by Gautam | Aug 30, 2022 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Running a customer’s technical infrastructure often necessitates making changes in response to the shifting requirements of the industry. Thankfully, with the introduction of cloud computing, adapting the infrastructure has never been easier. These days, we can...
by Peter Zaitsev | Aug 25, 2022 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
With the economy slowing down and inflation raging in many parts of the world, your organization will love you if you find ways to reduce the costs of running their MySQL databases. This is especially true if you run MySQL in the cloud, as it often allows you to see...
by David Quilty | Aug 22, 2022 | Percona Services, Percona Software
It’s time for the release roundup! Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. Our Release Roundups...
by Corrado Pandiani | Aug 11, 2022 | Insight for Developers, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Software
I have recently written an article for this blog presenting Window Functions for MongoDB 5.0. I used some public Italian COVID-19 data for a few real examples. Please have a look at it if you like. Then I thought I should provide the same even for a relational...
by David Quilty | Aug 8, 2022 | Percona Services, Percona Software
It’s time for the release roundup! Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. Our Release Roundups...
by Lenz Grimmer | Aug 3, 2022 | Database Trends, Open Source, Percona Software
After having been in long-term support (LTS) for the past two years, Debian 9 (“Stretch”) has now reached End of Life (EOL) on 2022-06-30. We generally align our OS platform end-of-life dates with the upstream platform vendor. We publish the platform end-of-life dates...
by Chetan Shivashankar | Aug 1, 2022 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
In part one of this series, we introduced the different ways to manage MySQL configurations. In this post, we will walk through different possibilities and the changes happening while modifying MySQL configurations with the operator. Percona Distribution for MySQL...
by Gautam | Aug 1, 2022 | Hardware and Storage, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Compaction in Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB) There are two ways to reclaim disk space in Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB): run compact on nodes or resync the node. In this blog, we will see the best practice for reclaiming the fragmented space on a disk in PSMDB...
by David Quilty | Jul 25, 2022 | Percona Services, Percona Software
It’s time for the release roundup! Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. Our Release Roundups...
by Marcelo Altmann | Jul 19, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Oracle’s MySQL 8.0.29 release extended the support for ALTER TABLE … ALGORITHM=INSTANT to 1) allow users to instantly add columns in any position of the table, and 2) instantly drop columns. As part of this work, the InnoDB redo log format has changed for all DML...
by David Quilty | Jul 11, 2022 | Percona Services, Percona Software
It’s time for the release roundup! Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. Our Release Roundups...
