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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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Transparent Huge Pages Refresher

Percona

While THP can be beneficial for many applications, enabling it on a database server could have unintended consequences. In this post, we will explore THP, its impact on database servers, and how to disable it for optimal performance and stability. The concept of HugePages in Linux has existed for many years, first introduced in 2007.

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Using the Transparent Data Encryption Extension PG_TDE With PostgreSQL

Percona

The simplest way to run it for testing is to use the docker container: docker run --name pg-tde -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=mysecretpassword -d perconalab/postgres-tde-ext This command starts a container with the extension loaded and already enabled for the Postgres database.

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InnoDB Performance Optimization Basics

Percona

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Hardware Memory The amount of RAM to be provisioned for database servers can vary greatly depending on the size of the database and the specific requirements of the company. Benchmark before you decide.

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Revamp MySQL Query Optimization and Overcome Slowness of ORDER BY with LIMIT Queries

Percona

The efficiency of database queries in MySQL can make all the difference in the performance and responsiveness of applications. However, for 16 years since 2007, the MySQL query optimizer has had a “bug” that not only makes LIMIT 1 slower than LIMIT 10 but can also make the former a table scan, which tends to cause problems.

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MSMQ is dead

Particular Software

MSMQ was fairly unique in that it supported distributed transactions, meaning that database operations in SQL Server and messaging operations through the queues could all be combined in one atomic transaction so that either everything succeeded, or everything failed. But what about open source? for more details.

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Transforming enterprise integration with reactive streams

O'Reilly Software

In addition to that, software is increasingly dependent on other software to provide its functionality, be it WebServices, HTTP APIs, databases, or even external devices such as sensors. The Alpakka project is an open source library initiative to implement stream-aware, reactive, integration pipelines for Java and Scala.