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Open Source vs. Proprietary Database Software: What To Choose?

Percona

We are a company of open source proponents. We’re also dedicated and active participants in the global open source community. Both open source and proprietary options have advantages. With open source database software , anyone in the general public can access the source code, read it, and modify it.

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

We’re equally convinced on both counts, but in this blog article, we’re focusing on why MongoDB is not open source. Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. To be clear, we are rock-solid in our stance that MongoDB is not open source.

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From Proprietary to Open Source: The Complete Guide to Database Migration

Percona

Migrating a proprietary database to open source is a major decision that can significantly affect your organization. Advantages of migrating to open source For many reasons mentioned earlier, organizations are increasingly shifting towards open source databases for their data management needs.

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Percona Monitoring and Management High Availability – A Proof of Concept

Percona

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a state-of-the-art piece of software that exists in part thanks to great open source projects like VictoriaMetrics, PostgreSQL, and ClickHouse. Being software composed of different, multiple technologies can add complexity to a well-known concept: High Availability (HA). How to do it?

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Exploring MySQL Binlog Server – Ripple

Scalegrid

MySQL does not limit the number of slaves that you can connect to the master server in a replication topology. A classic solution for this problem is to deploy a binlog server – an intermediate proxy server that sits between the master and its slaves. Ripple is an open source binlog server developed by Pavel Ivanov.

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Setting Up and Deploying PostgreSQL for High Availability

Percona

With the average cost of unplanned downtime running from $300,000 to $500,000 per hour , businesses are increasingly using high availability (HA) technologies to maximize application uptime. Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges.

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Percona Monitoring and Management 2.40.0, Percona Server for MongoDB 7.0.2-1 (RC): Release Roundup October 16, 2023

Percona

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. Download Percona Monitoring and Management 2.40.0 Percona Server for MongoDB 7.0.2-1

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