Percona

APRIL 28, 2023

Let’s start with a simple introductory comparison: With proprietary (closed source) database software, the public does not have access to the source code; only the company that owns it and those given access can modify it. Myth #2: Proprietary databases are better and therefore more suitable for large enterprises.

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Open Source Database Software Software 114

Percona

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In this guide, we will demonstrate how to establish a Citus database spanning multiple nodes by using Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL. This setup empowers your database to efficiently manage increased data volumes, enhance performance, and maintain availability. Use the following procedure for all the three nodes. 1ubuntu1~20.04.1)

Scalability 87

Scalability Database Open Source Traffic 87

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

This article is to simply report the YCSB bench test results in detail for five NoSQL databases namely Redis, MongoDB, Couchbase, Yugabyte and BangDB and compare the result side by side. I have used latest versions for each NoSQL DB and have followed the recommendations to run all the databases in optimized conditions.

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Benchmarking Latency C++ Database 308

Percona

AUGUST 2, 2023

Restoring a MySQL database backup is a crucial task that can sometimes be time-consuming, especially for large databases. Linux native Input/Output (I/O) statistics Pipe viewer utility By following these approaches, we can effectively monitor the restoration process and manage your MySQL database restoration efficiently.

Database 84

Database Monitoring C++ Speed 84

Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

The use of open source databases has increased steadily in recent years. Past trepidation — about perceived vulnerabilities and performance issues — has faded as decision makers realize what an “open source database” really is and what it offers. What is an open source database?

Open Source 76

Open Source Database Storage Scalability 76

Percona

NOVEMBER 13, 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. Download the Updated Release of Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 16.0 Take a look.

Innovation 88

Innovation Open Source Scalability Database 88

Percona

DECEMBER 18, 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. Download Percona Monitoring and Management 2.41.0 Take a look.

Monitoring 88

Monitoring Open Source Servers Scalability 88

Percona

OCTOBER 31, 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. Download Percona Monitoring and Management 2.40.1 Take a look. was released.

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Monitoring Open Source Scalability Database 80

Percona

DECEMBER 18, 2023

These days, there’s been a lot of talk in the industry about setting up one’s database system on PostgreSQL. Most times, these are Greenfield projects where the bulk of the effort is on its design and architecture. Database migration, a POC in action Objective Perform a database migration from MySQL to PostgreSQL.

Open Source 123

Open Source Database Architecture Design 123

Percona

AUGUST 21, 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. Download Percona Monitoring and Management 2.39.0 Download Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.43-47

Open Source 85

Open Source AWS Servers Database 85

Percona

APRIL 6, 2023

PostgreSQL is a popular open source relational database management system many organizations use to store and manage their data. However, as the size of your database grows, it can become challenging to manage and optimize its performance. This can significantly improve query response times and reduce the load on your database servers.

Cache 116

Cache Open Source Benchmarking Database 116

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Note that the intent of tuning the settings is not exclusively about improving performance but also enhancing the high availability and resilience of the MongoDB database. The Linux default is usually 60 , which is not ideal for database usage. Spoiler alert: This post focuses on MongoDB 3.6.X

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Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Percona

OCTOBER 16, 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. you can now use an external VictoriaMetrics database for monitoring in PMM. Take a look.

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Servers Monitoring Open Source Scalability 76

Percona

DECEMBER 4, 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. Download Percona Distribution for MySQL (PS- based variant) 8.1.0 Take a look. was released.

Open Source 81

Open Source Azure Servers Programming 81

Percona

SEPTEMBER 18, 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. Download Percona Distribution for MongoDB 6.0.9 Take a look. Percona Backup for MongoDB 2.2.1

Open Source 81

Open Source Servers Database Scalability 81

Percona

APRIL 26, 2023

When you do a database restore, you want to have it done as soon as possible. And the database is unusable until the restore is done. Our tests showed physical database restores up to 5x faster than the logical ones. So we decided to try parallel (concurrent) download. So every minute matters. But can we do better?

Speed 81

Speed Storage AWS Azure 81

Percona

SEPTEMBER 4, 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. Download the update to the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0.33-2 Take a look.

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Open Source Scalability Database Software 79

Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

PostgreSQL graphical user interface (GUI) tools help these open source database users to manage, manipulate, and visualize their data. PostgreSQL is the fourth most popular database management system in the world, and heavily used in all sizes of applications from small to large. pgAdmin can be downloaded from their official website.

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Open Source Database Azure Cloud 262

Percona

JULY 6, 2023

Access Exclusive (CREATE/DROP DATABASE) : Allows exclusive access to a database. Page-Level Locks: Locks are acquired at the page level, which is a group of database blocks. Download Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL Today! Multiple sessions can concurrently hold row-level locks on different rows of the same table.

Open Source 120

Open Source Database Design Efficiency 120

Percona

MAY 8, 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. Download Percona Monitoring and Management 2.37 Download Percona Server for MongoDB 5.0.17-14

Monitoring 79

Monitoring Open Source Database Servers 79

Percona

FEBRUARY 13, 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. PMM installs and manages operators using Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) and database clusters using dbaas-operator. Take a look!

Open Source 85

Open Source Database Servers Scalability 85

Percona

JUNE 12, 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. Download Percona Monitoring and Management 2.37.1 Take a look! was released on June 5, 2023.

Open Source 85

Open Source Servers Database Scalability 85

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

That’s why it’s essential to implement the best practices and strategies for MongoDB database backups. Why are MongoDB database backups important? Regular database backups are essential to protect against data loss caused by system failures, human errors, natural disasters, or cyber-attacks.

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Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Percona

MAY 29, 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. Download Percona Distribution for MongoDB 4.4.21 Take a look! 13.10, 12.14, 11.19

Open Source 79

Open Source Servers Scalability Database 79

Percona

OCTOBER 11, 2023

I created a test account (replica set) and loaded sample data with one click in Atlas: Create an account in Atlas. Atlas atlas-mhnnqy-shard-0 [primary] test> show dbs sample_airbnb 52.69 GiB Atlas atlas-mhnnqy-shard-0 [primary] test> An EC2 instance with PSMDB installed. Prerequisites: A MongoDB Atlas account.

Database 88

Database Open Source Testing Servers 88

Percona

JUNE 26, 2023

We have faced different levels of corruption related to databases in PostgreSQL. In case of hardware failure, first, we need to fix the hardware issue or migrate our database to new hardware and then perform a restore, as mentioned below. So we need to check whether this base / 16384 / 16391 file is available in / base location.

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Hardware C++ Database Open Source 77

Percona

DECEMBER 15, 2023

A database role can have a number of attributes that define its privileges and interact with the client authentication system.One such attribute is the CREATEROLE attribute, which is important to PostgreSQL database management of users and roles. This poses a security threat to the whole organisation.

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C++ Database Open Source Systems 95

Percona

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In database management, job scheduling has always played an important role. However, there is another job scheduler called pg_timetable, which is completely database-driven and provides a couple of advanced concepts. Download and install GO on your system. Local installation, i.e., build from sources.

Open Source 79

Open Source Database Servers Programming 79

Percona

MARCH 27, 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. It offers highlights, critical information, links to the full release notes, and direct links to the software or service itself to download.

Open Source 80

Open Source Servers Scalability Cache 80

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. Download Percona Distribution for MySQL (PXC-based variant) 8.0.30 (Update) Percona Backup for MongoDB 2.0.3 Take a look!

Open Source 86

Open Source Storage AWS Cloud 86

Percona

JUNE 5, 2023

Sooner or later, one must address this issue; otherwise, one can suffer the consequences of handicapping your entire database infrastructure. This SQL statement must be executed against each and every database that is to be accessed by any ROLE connection using PgBouncer. Download Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL Today!

Database 123

Database Open Source Servers C++ 123

Percona

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

While planning the database upgrade, remember that Percona offers a range of professional services from the top of market experts. Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL provides the best and most critical enterprise components from the open-source community, in a single distribution, designed and tested to work together.

Open Source 86

Open Source Database Availability Design 86

Percona

AUGUST 16, 2023

In database management, well-formatted SQL code is easier to read and a vital aspect of maintaining clean, efficient, and error-free databases. PostgreSQL developers and database administrators often deal with complex SQL queries, making code readability a critical factor for productivity.

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Code Best Practices Open Source C++ 79

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The good news is that for someone familiar with MySQL, they have the basics of databases covered and can explore some of the treasures to be discovered in the new PostgreSQL environment. test=# select * from products; id | product_name | price -+ --+ -- 1 | Table | 150.00 All the product data is in the product table. 2 | Desk | 100.00

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Open Source Code Testing Database 104

Percona

DECEMBER 12, 2022

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. Download Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 12.13. Download Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 11.18. Take a look!

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Open Source Azure Database Servers 62

Percona

OCTOBER 20, 2023

You can read part one here: Scalable Solutions With Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL: Set Up Three PostgreSQL Database Instances. Citus is an open-source extension for PostgreSQL that expands its capacity to manage databases of varying scales, ranging from individual nodes to extensively distributed database clusters.

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Scalability Database Open Source Systems 93

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

Compression in any database is necessary as it has many advantages, like storage reduction, data transmission time, etc. Snappy compression is designed to be fast and efficient regarding memory usage, making it a good fit for MongoDB workloads. Here, we are going to test snappy and zstd compression with the following configurations.

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Storage Network Open Source Latency 110