Inconsistent Voting in Percona XtraDB Cluster
AKA Cluster Error Voting… What is Cluster Error Voting (CEV)? “Cluster Error Voting is a new feature implemented by Alexey Yurchenko, and it is a protocol for nodes to decide how the cluster will react...
View ArticlePercona Live Sessions for Engineers Working on Building and Developing...
We are in the “home stretch” for Percona Live and I am continuing to highlight some of the great content out there! Today I would like to focus on content I think will be very interesting to the...
View ArticleWebinar June 8: The Pros and Cons of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud – Which...
Considering a move to the cloud, but unsure which provider is right for you? According to the results of our 2020 Open Source Data Management Software Survey, AWS continues to dominate the public cloud...
View ArticleCool New Projects, Technology, and Broadening My Horizons at Percona Live
I love learning from others and exploring the implementation details other database engines provide. Percona Live has no shortage of new databases, tools, and discussions on interesting new features or...
View ArticleMyDumper 0.10.5 is Now Available
The new MyDumper 0.10.5 version, which includes many new features and bug fixes, is now available. You can download the code from here. For this release, we focused on fixing some old issues and...
View ArticleWar Stories and Learning From Others – Percona Live
Lessons Learned – Learning from those who blazed the trail! Another cool thing I like about attending conferences is learning from how other companies and people overcame problems, how they run their...
View ArticleNew Extensions in Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL, Updated Percona...
It’s release roundup time again here at Percona! Our Release Roundups showcase the latest Percona software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software. It offers highlights...
View ArticlePoint-in-Time Recovery for MongoDB on Kubernetes
Running MongoDB in Kubernetes with Percona Operator is not only simple but also by design provides a highly available MongoDB cluster suitable for mission-critical applications. In the latest 1.8.0...
View ArticlePercona Live ONLINE: Percona Previews Open Source Database as a Service
Percona Live ONLINE 2021 starts today! Representing dozens of projects, communities, and tech companies, and featuring more than 150 expert speakers across 200 sessions, there’s still time to...
View ArticleNew Survey Shows Enterprises Increasing Their Reliance on Open Source Software
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!...
View ArticlePercona Backup for MongoDB v1.5 Released
Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) has reached a new step with the release of version 1.5.0 today, May 13th, 2021. Azure Blob Storage Support Now you can use Azure Blob Storage as well as S3-compatible...
View ArticleWiredTiger File Forensics Part 1: Building “wt”
Most of the files in a data directory of a MongoDB server are made by the WiredTiger storage engine. If you want to look at the content inside them you can use the tool “wt” from the WiredTiger...
View ArticleWiredTiger File Forensics Part 2: wt dump
This article contains one normal section – how to print information directly from the raw WiredTiger files using wt dump – followed by really important, otherwise undocumented information about how to...
View ArticleUsing Sidecars with Percona Kubernetes Operators
Our recent releases of Percona XtraDB Cluster Operator 1.8 and Percona Server for MongoDB Operator 1.7 come with a new interesting feature: Support of custom sidecars. What is special about this? There...
View ArticleRefreshing Test/Dev Environments With Prod Data Using Percona Backup for MongoDB
This is a very straightforward article written with the intention to show you how easy it is to refresh your Test/Dev environments with PROD data, using Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM). This article...
View ArticlePercona Monitoring and Management DBaaS Overview and Technical Details
Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) is a managed database that doesn’t need to be installed and maintained but is instead provided as a service to the user. The Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) DBaaS...
View ArticleNew Features in Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.23-14
Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.23-14 was released last week and I wanted to take a minute to call out some of the interesting new features that we have introduced in this release. These are included in...
View ArticleManage MySQL Users with Kubernetes
Quite a common request that we receive from the community and customers is to provide a way to manage database users with Operators – both MongoDB and MySQL. Even though we see it as an interesting...
View ArticleHeads-Up: TokuDB Support Changes and Future Removal from Percona Server for...
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,...
View ArticleNew Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL Versions, Percona Server for MySQL...
It’s release roundup time again here at Percona! Our Release Roundups showcase the latest Percona software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software. It offers highlights...
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