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March 24, 2025
Percona XtraBackup 8.4 Pro: Reduce Server Locking by up to 4300X
When performing backups, reducing the amount of time your server is locked can significantly improve performance and minimize disruptions. Percona [...]
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March 20, 2025
Percona Monitoring and Management 2: Clarifying the End-of-Life and Transition to PMM 3
At Percona, we’re committed to providing you with the best database monitoring and management tools. With the release of Percona [...]
March 19, 2025
MongoDB Atlas On-Premise: Challenges and Flexible Alternatives
If you’re running enterprise applications, you might be facing a common dilemma: cloud solutions offer great features, but regulatory constraints [...]
March 18, 2025
The Percona Perspective: A Vision for the Future of Open Source Databases in the Age of AI
From punch cards to containerization, database technologies have changed tremendously over the years. And there has been no shortage of [...]
March 17, 2025
Percona Server for MySQL 8.4.2 vs 8.0.40: Comparison of Variables and Keywords
In this blog, we will look at the differences between LTS (Long Term Stable) versions of Percona Server for MySQL. [...]
March 14, 2025
Enterprise Readiness with Percona Monitoring and Management: A Look at PMM 3.0.0
Database disasters come with a hefty price tag. According to Information Technology Intelligence Consulting’s 2024 Hourly Cost of Downtime Report, [...]
March 13, 2025
Using Barman Cloud Utilities for Backups and WAL Archiving in PostgreSQL
In this brief blog post, we will talk about Barman cloud utilities, which greatly ease the process of storing backups [...]
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March 12, 2025
HAProxy-Patroni Setup Using Health Check Endpoints and Debugging
Patroni has a REST API that allows HAProxy and other kinds of load balancers to perform HTTP health checks. This [...]
March 11, 2025
Ready for the Enterprise: New Solution Updates from Percona
The latest releases from Percona bring targeted improvements that help organizations streamline deployments, strengthen security, and optimize performance in demanding [...]
March 10, 2025
Extending MySQL 5.7: Percona Releases Post-End-of-Life Source Code to the Community
Percona is excited to announce the community release of our MySQL 5.7 End-of-Life (EOL) source code for both Percona Server [...]
March 6, 2025
Simplify Valkey Adoption with Percona Support and Services
With Redis moving away from its open source roots, the key-value store ecosystem is shifting. For over 70% of users, [...]
March 3, 2025
Why Companies Are Saying No to Proprietary Software, Including MongoDB
Is your organization’s innovation being constrained by proprietary software restrictions? You’re not alone—these limitations are increasingly at odds with enterprise [...]
February 26, 2025
Using VS Code and Docker to Debug MySQL Crashes
Typically, we receive customer tickets regarding crashes or bugs, where we request a core dump to analyze and identify the [...]
February 24, 2025
Understanding trx-consistency-only on MyDumper Before Removal
I have been working on MyDumper for over three years now, and I usually don’t use the tax-consistency-only feature during backups because [...]
February 18, 2025
Alternatives to MongoDB Atlas: More Control, Lower Costs
At first glance, MongoDB Atlas seems like the perfect solution—an easy-to-use, fully managed cloud database that takes the hassle out [...]
February 14, 2025
Orchestrator (for Managing MySQL) High Availability Using Raft
As we know, Orchestrator is a MySQL high availability and replication management tool that aids in managing farms of MySQL servers. [...]
February 13, 2025
Sizing the Replication Backlog Buffer for Valkey
Data consistency and availability across distributed systems is crucial, particularly in environments that rely heavily on replication. In Valkey, one [...]
February 11, 2025
Security Advisory: CVE Affecting Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)
A critical security vulnerability has been identified in the following software that Percona has made available: PMM Open Virtual Appliance [...]
February 7, 2025
Encrypt PostgreSQL Data at Rest on Kubernetes
The upcoming Percona Operator for PostgreSQL v2.6.0 release introduces support for PostgreSQL 17, which opens exciting possibilities for data security. [...]