Percona

JANUARY 30, 2023

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. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since January 9, 2023. Take a look!

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Percona

APRIL 24, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. 24 was released on April 18, 2023. 24 (2023-03-20) release notes.

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Percona

APRIL 10, 2023

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. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since March 27, 2023. It’s a mega list!

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In his keynote address on the first day of Perform 2023 in Las Vegas, Dynatrace Chief Technology Officer Bernd Greifeneder and his colleagues discussed how organizations struggle with this problem and how Dynatrace is meeting the moment. Grail combines the big-data storage of a data warehouse with the analytical flexibility of a data lake.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

PostgreSQL is a powerful and popular open source relational database management system. Ensuring the safety of your PostgreSQL data through regular backups is an important concern for database administrators. The /etc/pgbackrest/pgbackrest.conf file contains crucial information related to our primary database server.

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Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

As we at Percona wind down 2023 and look into what the next year holds, our attention is drawn to the cloud-native landscape and how it is maturing, growing, and evolving. KubeCon NA 2023 recap The theme for KubeCon NA was very clear — AI and Large Language Models (LLMs).

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Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration platform that enables organizations to automatically scale, manage, and deploy containerized applications in distributed environments. According to the Kubernetes in the Wild 2023 report, “Kubernetes is emerging as the operating system of the cloud.” Ease of use.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

If you ever had to make a quick ad-hoc backup of your MongoDB databases, but there was not enough disk space on the local disk to do so, this blog post may provide some handy tips to save you from headaches. Fortunately, there are ways to skip the local storage entirely and stream MongoDB backups directly to the destination.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

In their annual sustainability report in July 2023 AWS did update their list of sustainable regions to highlight 19 regions that are 100% sustainable — using an annual local market methodology for scope 1 and 2. Programs like Open Data on AWS provide free, publicly available datasets, accelerating sustainability innovation.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This type of backup is suitable for large, important databases that need to be recovered quickly when problems occur. Physical backups are the backups that consist of raw copies of the directories and files that store database contents. Copyright (c) 2016, 2023, Oracle and/or its affiliates. Type 'help' or '?'

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Percona

JULY 17, 2023

MongoDB Community Edition software might set the stage for achieving your high-volume database goals, but you quickly learn that its features fall short of your enterprise needs. The popularity of MongoDB MongoDB has emerged as a popular database platform. 5 among all database management systems and No. It ranks No.

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Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

PostgreSQL is open source relational database management software. Most recently, in StackOverflow’s 2022 Stack Developer Survey , PostgreSQL took a slight lead over MySQL (46.48% to 45.68%) as the most popular database platform among professional developers. What is PostgreSQL used for?

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

This blog was originally published in September 2020 and was updated in May 2023. That’s why it’s essential to implement the best practices and strategies for MongoDB database backups. That’s why it’s essential to implement the best practices and strategies for MongoDB database backups.

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Percona

JUNE 29, 2023

When all data-bearing replica set members are available, and the index is created with default commitQuorum , below are the details from the Primary and the Secondary nodes. Status of nodes: rs1:PRIMARY> rs.status().members.forEach(function members.forEach(function (d) {print(d.name) + " " + print(d.stateStr)}); 127.0.0.1:27017

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

PostgreSQL Partition Manager — ‘pg_partman’ — is an open source extension freely available, widely supported, and actively maintained by the PostgreSQL community. Installation of pg_partman on the database I recommend creating the schema before creating the extension to install the extension’s objects.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

According to the 2023 Kubernetes in the Wild report , 65% of organizations use Prometheus. Another source reported a 43% overall increase in Prometheus adoption for the last six months of 2021. But often, we use additional services and solutions within our environment for backups, storage, networking, and more.

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Percona

MARCH 28, 2023

To briefly explain pgBackRest, it is an open source backup tool that takes FULL Backup, Incremental Backup, and Differential Backup for PostgreSQL databases. This attribute helps take the redundant copies of the databases at multiple locations remotely on different servers or locally on the same server. Scenarios: 1.

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Percona

MARCH 28, 2023

Every database system has to ensure durability and reliability. In this blog post, we will dive deep into WiredTiger’s Logging and Checkpoint mechanism. MongoDB uses classic Write-Ahead-Logging (WAL) using Journals and Checkpoints. Starting with the basics, why is WAL needed in the first place?

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Percona

AUGUST 18, 2023

Why not just create another database on the same instance? You can have a host with two or three instances configured as a delayed replica of the source server with SQL Delay of, let’s say, 24hr, 12hr, and 6/3hrs. So you put multiple MySQL servers on a single machine instead of multiple databases inside one MySQL instance.

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Percona

JULY 1, 2023

This post was originally published in July 2018 and was updated in July 2023. Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? What are the differences between Aurora and RDS?

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Percona

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Dynamic WiredTiger tickets As a brief recap, WiredTiger tickets in MongoDB serve as the concurrency control mechanism within the WiredTiger storage engine. Bounce the database, replacing the binaries with the older release. These tickets are categorized into Read tickets and Write tickets. Remove backward-incompatible features.

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Percona

AUGUST 18, 2023

2023-05-12T08:10:38.946611Z 1 [ERROR] [MY-013894] [InnoDB] Found redo log file./ib_logfile0 2023-05-12T08:10:38.946683Z 1 [ERROR] [MY-012930] [InnoDB] Plugin initialization aborted with error Generic error. 2023-05-12T08:10:39.374389Z 1 [ERROR] [MY-011013] [Server] Failed to initialize DD Storage Engine.

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Percona

AUGUST 29, 2023

A single command to deploy the operator would be: kubectl apply -f [link] --server-side Init SQL script Init SQL allows the creation of the database cluster with some initial data in it. In this case, the backups should be stored on some object storage. You can find all examples from this blog post in this GitHub repository.

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Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Therefore, DBAs must take a piecemeal approach to achieve HA with PostgreSQL, bringing together open source extensions and tools from multiple sources.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

MySQL is an outstanding open source transactional database used by most web-based applications and is very good at handling OLTP workloads. ClickHouse is a columnar database that handles analytical workloads quickly. By default, it will create a database on ClickHouse with all the tables and their data. (We

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Percona

APRIL 10, 2023

Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) is an open source, distributed, and low-impact solution for consistent backups of MongoDB sharded clusters and replica sets. In March 2023, we discovered an issue with physical backups, which, under certain conditions, can cause the restore to fail ( PBM-1058 ). With PBM v2.0.0,

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Percona

MARCH 13, 2023

First, let’s try streaming copy from mysql57 to mysql8 server as this does not need additional storage. for this database. 23) initializing of server in progress as process 6660 2023-03-01T02:38:23.939215Z 1 [System] [MY-013576] [InnoDB] InnoDB initialization has started. 25 based on MySQL server 8.0.32

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Percona

AUGUST 29, 2023

Among its many capabilities, a Citus cluster can: Create distributed tables that are sharded across a cluster of PostgreSQL nodes to combine their CPU, memory, storage, and I/O capacity. Columnar storage of tables can compress data, speeding up scans and supporting fast projections, both on regular and distributed tables.

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Percona

JULY 24, 2023

PBM) introduced a GA version of incremental physical backups , which can greatly impact both the recovery time and the cost of backup (considering storage and data transfer cost). Snapshot backup/restore Technical Preview As already promised during Percona Live 2023, it’s my pleasure to deliver on that promise.

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Percona

MAY 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in August 2018 and was updated in May 2023. It has default settings for all of the database parameters. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning?

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Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

This blog post was originally published in November 2017 and was updated in June 2023. Before we dive into the differences between MariaDB and MySQL, we will provide a thorough examination of each relational database management system (RDBMS). What is MariaDB? Elevate your MariaDB environment with Percona Support for MariaDB.

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Percona

JUNE 23, 2023

In Percona Managed Services , one key aspect of managing the databases is configuring backups. Percona XtraBackup is one of the best tools for performing physical database backups. ibd.qp.xbcrypt 2023-04-21T00:27:14.875316-00:00 24 [Note] [MY-011825] [Xtrabackup] Compressing and encrypting. dbxxxx/tb1.ibd dbxxxx/tb1.ibd

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Percona

JULY 2, 2023

This blog was originally written in September 2018 and was updated in June 2023. The size of the database and your database environment—if it is on colo or cloud—matters. In this post, we cover the methods used to achieve an enterprise-grade backup strategy for the PostgreSQL cluster.

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Percona

MAY 15, 2023

The main reason behind this is that MySQL is a relational database system (RDBMS), and any data that is going to be written in it must respect the RDBMS rules. In the MySQL open source ecosystem, we have only two consolidated ways to perform sharding — Vitess and ProxySQL. The POC Why this POC?

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Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in January 2021 and updated in November of 2023. As businesses and applications increasingly rely on MySQL databases to manage their critical data, ensuring data reliability and availability becomes paramount. What is the Recovery Time Objective?

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Percona

JUNE 6, 2023

This blog was originally published in January 2012 and was updated in June 2023. A full backup is a comprehensive data backup strategy that involves creating a complete, exact copy of all data and files in a database. In order to implement effective full backups of your database, you must follow some best practices.

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Percona

JULY 3, 2023

Partitioning is the concept of splitting large tables logically into smaller pieces for better performance of the database. However, a rule of thumb is that the size of the table should exceed the physical memory of the database server. The exact point at which a table will benefit from partitioning depends on the application.

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