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MySQL 8: Account Locking
As part of my ongoing focus on MySQL 8 user and password management, I’ve covered how the new dual passwords feature can reduce the overall DBA workload and streamline the management process (see MySQL...
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Reminder: TokuDB Storage Engine Will Be Disabled by Default in Percona Server...
As we’ve communicated in our blog post in May, the TokuDB Storage Engine has been marked as “deprecated” in Percona Server for MySQL 8.0. It will be removed in a future version (Percona Server for...
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How to Hide Credentials from Percona Monitoring and Management Client Commands
In this short blog post, we are going to review how to avoid using credentials in the Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) client command line when adding new exporters. We will use an example with...
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Getting Started with ProxySQL in Kubernetes
There are plenty of ways to run ProxySQL in Kubernetes (K8S). For example, we can deploy sidecar containers on the application pods, or run a dedicated ProxySQL service with its own pods. We are going...
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Using the Range and the New Multirange Data Type in PostgreSQL 14
Don’t miss the great overview of PostgreSQL 14 that Umair Shahid recently put together, PostgreSQL 14 – Performance, Security, Usability, and Observability! Range data types have been in Postgresql for...
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MySQL 8: Random Password Generator
As part of my ongoing focus on MySQL 8 user and password management, I’ve covered how using the new dual passwords feature can reduce the overall DBA workload and streamline the management process....
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Disaster Recovery for MongoDB on Kubernetes
As per the glossary, Disaster Recovery (DR) protocols are an organization’s method of regaining access and functionality to its IT infrastructure in events like a natural disaster, cyber attack, or...
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Upgrade Fix in Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL, Percona Server for...
It’s release roundup time again here at Percona! Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business...
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ProxySQL 2.3.0: Enhanced Support for MySQL Group Replication
ProxySQL 2.3.0 was recently released and when I was reading the release notes, I was really impressed with the Group Replication enhancements and features. I thought of experimenting with those things...
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Why Linux HugePages are Super Important for Database Servers: A Case with...
Often users come to us with incidents of database crashes due to OOM Killer. The Out Of Memory killer terminates PostgreSQL processes and remains the top reason for most of the PostgreSQL database...
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Migrating MongoDB to Kubernetes
This blog post is the last in the series of articles on migrating databases to Kubernetes with Percona Operators. Two previous posts can be found here: Migrating PostgreSQL to Kubernetes Migration of a...
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Custom Percona Monitoring and Management Metrics in MySQL and PostgreSQL
A few weeks ago we did a live stream talking about Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) and showcased some of the fun things we were doing at the OSS Summit. During the live stream, we tried to...
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Percona Is a Finalist for Best Use of Open Source Technologies in 2021!
Percona has been named a finalist in the Computing Technology Product Awards for Best Use of Open Source Technologies. If you’re a customer, partner, or just a fan of Percona and what we stand for,...
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Comparing Graviton Performance to ARM and Intel for MySQL
Recently, AWS presented its own CPU on ARM architecture for server solutions. It was Graviton. As a result, they update some lines of their EC2 instances with new postfix “g” (e.g. m6g.small, r5g.nano,...
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Cloud-Native Through the Prism of Percona: Episode 1
The cloud-native landscape matures every day, and new great tools and products continue to appear. We are starting a series of blog posts that are going to focus on new tools in the container and...
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How to Build Percona Server for MongoDB for Various Operating Systems
Following this series of blog posts started by Evgeniy Patlan: How to Manually Build Percona Server for MySQL RPM Packages How to Build Percona Server for MySQL From Sources we’ll show you how to build...
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MongoDB 5.0 Time Series Collections
In a previous article, I tested a new feature of MongoDB 5.0: resharding. Today, I take a look at another new feature: the Time Series collections. The Time Series collection is an astonishing new...
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Percona Server for MongoDB 5.0.3-2 Release Candidate, Updated Percona Server...
It’s release roundup time again here at Percona! Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business...
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Comparing Graviton (ARM) Performance to Intel and AMD for MySQL (Part 2)
Recently we published the first part of research comparing Graviton (ARM) with AMD and Intel CPU on AWS. In the first part, we selected general-purpose EC2 instances with the same configurations...
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Externally Sourced Configuration File Values in MongoDB
Since version 4.2, MongoDB provides a new interesting feature called Externally Sourced Configuration File Values. It allows administrators to specify that particular variables will have their values...
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