by Vadim Tkachenko | Jul 6, 2017 | Benchmarks, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In this blog, we’ll look at ClickHouse on its one year anniversary. It’s been a year already since the Yandex team released ClickHouse as open source software. I’ve had an interest in this project from the very start, as I didn’t think there was an...
by Brigit Valencia | Jun 30, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events
Percona’s focus on customer success pushes us to deliver the very best products, services and support. Three recent industry awards reflect our continued success in achieving these goals. We recently garnered a Bronze Stevie Award “Company of the Year – Computer...
by Barrett Chambers | Jun 29, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Services, Percona Software
In this blog post, I’ll discuss my experience as a Solutions Engineer in explaining the value of Percona software and services to customers. The inspiration for this blog post was a recent conversation with a prospective client. They were exploring open source...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jun 16, 2017 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
This blog shows Peter Zaitsev’s speaking schedule for this summer. Summer 2017 Speaking Engagements This week I spoke at the DB Tech Showcase OSS conference in Japan and am now heading to Europe. I have a busy schedule in June and early July, but there are...
by Manjot Singh | Jun 6, 2017 | MySQL, Security
In this first of a series of blog posts, we’ll look at MySQL encryption at rest. At Percona, we work with a number of clients that require strong security measures for PCI, HIPAA and PHI compliance, where data managed by MySQL needs to be encrypted “at...
by Dave Avery | Jun 5, 2017 | Cloud, MySQL, Webinars
Join Percona’s CEO and Founder Peter Zaitsev as he presents MySQL In the Cloud: Migration, Best Practices, High Availability, Scaling on Wednesday, June 7, 2017, at 10 am PDT / 1:00 pm EDT (UTC-7). Register Now Businesses are moving many of the systems and processes...
by Dave Avery | May 24, 2017 | Benchmarks, Insight for DBAs, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software, Webinars
This blog post is a summary of the Percona Software and Roadmap Update – Q2 2017 webinar given by Peter Zaitsev on May 4, 2017. This webinar reflects changes and updates since the last update (Q1 2017). A full recording of this webinar, along with the...
by Alexey Zhebel | May 15, 2017 | MongoDB, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MongoDB 3.2.13-3.3 on May 15, 2017. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. Percona Server for MongoDB is an enhanced, open-source, fully compatible, highly...
by Alexey Zhebel | Mar 9, 2017 | MongoDB, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MongoDB 3.2.12-3.2 on March 9, 2017. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. Percona Server for MongoDB 3.2.11-3.1 is an enhanced, open-source, fully compatible,...
by Dave Avery | Feb 27, 2017 | MongoDB, Webinars
Join Percona’s Senior Technical Services Engineer Adamo Tonete on Thursday, March 2, 2017, at 11:00 a.m. PST / 2:00 p.m. EST (UTC-8) as he reviews and discusses MongoDB® query patterns. Register Now MongoDB is a fast and simple-to-query schema-free database. It...
by Dave Avery | Jan 12, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Services
We are proud to announce the new Percona online store! Keeping your database environment tuned, optimized and high-performance is key to achieving business goals. If your database goes down, so does your business. Percona experts have a long history of helping...
by Dave Avery | Dec 27, 2016 | MySQL, Webinars
Please join Percona’s Consultant David Ducos on Thursday, December 29, 2016 at 10 am PST/ 1:00 pm EST (UTC-8) as he presents JSON in MySQL 5.7. Since it was implemented in MySQL 5.7, we can use JSON as a data type. In this webinar, we will review some of the...
by Roman Vynar | Dec 9, 2016 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.1.7. Changelog New Nagios script pmp-check-mongo.py for MongoDB. Added MySQL socket and flag options to Cacti PHP script. Added disk volume check on “Mounted on” in addition to...
by Peter Zaitsev | Nov 17, 2016 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events
Let us know what you think about Percona, and what we should be thinking about for the future. Over the last ten years, Percona has grown considerably. We’ve moved from being a strictly MySQL company, to a company that supports MongoDB and other open source...
by Dave Avery | Oct 26, 2016 | MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL
Take Percona’s poll on what database technologies you use in your environment. Different databases get designed for different scenarios. Using one database technology for every situation doesn’t make sense, and can lead to non-optimal solutions for common...
by Peter Zaitsev | Oct 21, 2016 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events
As noted in several media outlets, many web sites have been affected by a DDoS attack on Dyn today. Since Percona uses Dyn for its DNS server, we are experiencing issues as well. The attack has impacted the percona.com web site availability and performance,...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Oct 13, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Software
In this blog post, we’ll explain how to update the signing key for Percona Debian and Ubuntu packages. Some of the users might have already noticed the following warning on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus): W: http://repo.percona.com/apt/dists/xenial/InRelease:...
by Peter Zaitsev | Oct 7, 2016 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events
Around this time last year, Gartner named Percona a Challenger in the 2015 Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems (Gartner Operational DBMS MQ). For those not familiar with these, Magic Quadrants (MQ) are a set of market research reports published...
by Peter Zaitsev | Sep 30, 2016 | MySQL
This blog post is a summary of the webinar Percona Software News and Roadmap Update – Q3 2016 given by Peter Zaitsev on September 28th, 2016. Over the last few months, I’ve had the opportunity to meet and talk with many of Percona’s customers. I love these...
by Muhammad Irfan | Aug 19, 2016 | MySQL, Webinars
Thank you for attending my 22nd July 2016 webinar titled “Top Most Overlooked MySQL Performance Optimizations”. In this blog, I will provide answers to the Q & A for that webinar. For hardware, which disk raid level do you suggest? Is raid5 suggested...
