Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Data powers everything, and unlike coal and coal combustion, data and databases aren’t going away. In this blog, we’ll focus on the elements of database backup and disaster recovery, and we’ll introduce proven solutions for maintaining business continuity, even amid otherwise dire circumstances.

Database 87

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 87

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. A basic high availability database system provides failover (preferably automatic) from a primary database node to redundant nodes within a cluster. HA is sometimes confused with “fault tolerance.”

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 107

Percona

MAY 1, 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. The performance of a PostgreSQL database has a significant impact on the overall effectiveness of an application.

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Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

MySQL is a popular open-source relational database management system for online applications and data warehousing. Because of this, preserving the availability and integrity of the data stored in MySQL databases requires regular backups. It’s renowned for its dependability, effectiveness, and simplicity.

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Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 130

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 82

Database Monitoring C++ Speed 82

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. Like Kubernetes, OpenShift is an open source Kubernetes-based container platform. What is Kubernetes? What is OpenShift?

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Open Source Social Media Infrastructure Operating System 199

Percona

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

PostgreSQL is a fantastic database, but if you’re storing images, video, audio files, or other large data objects, you need to “toast” them to get optimal performance. This post will look at using The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique (TOAST) to improve performance and scalability.

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Storage Scalability Strategy Performance 90

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Here, we will discuss a notable new feature in Amazon RDS, the Dedicated Log Volume (DLV), that has been introduced to boost database performance. A Dedicated Log Volume (DLV) is a specialized storage volume designed to house database transaction logs separately from the volume containing the database tables.

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AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 96

Abhishek Tiwari

JANUARY 6, 2018

Here we present a list of 10 open-source Kubernetes tools to make your SRE and Ops teams more effective to achieve their service level objectives. The backup files are stored in an object storage service (e.g. Ark server performs the actual backup, validates it and loads backup files in cloud object storage. Telepresence.

Open Source 111

Open Source DevOps Storage Engineering 111

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

Compression in any database is necessary as it has many advantages, like storage reduction, data transmission time, etc. Storage reduction alone results in significant cost savings, and we can save more data in the same space. By default, MongoDB provides a snappy block compression method for storage and network communication.

Storage 108

Storage Network Open Source Latency 108

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

of respondents are currently utilizing databases in Kubernetes (k8s). These indicators suggest that the adoption of databases on k8s is in its early stages and is likely to continue growing in the future. The newly formed Open Source AI Alliance , led by META and IBM, promises to support open-source AI.

Cloud 79

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 79

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

As a result, organizations need software to work perfectly to create customer experiences, deliver innovation, and generate operational efficiency. Traditionally, though, to gain true business insight, organizations had to make tradeoffs between accessing quality, real-time data and factors such as data storage costs.

Analytics 184

Analytics Software Software Storage 184

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

Performance 104

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 104

Percona

MARCH 7, 2023

The goal is to simplify the provisioning and management of database capacity. One approach is to separate compute and storage to allow for independent scaling. It’s an open source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres that utilizes a serverless architecture. So, what is Neon?

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Serverless Storage Open Source Architecture 110

Percona

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Bloom filters are an essential component of an LSM-based database engine like MyRocks. A bloom filter is a space-efficient way of storing information about a list of keys. LSM storage engines like MyRocks are very different from the more common B-Tree-based storage engines like InnoDB.

Storage 127

Storage Tuning Cache Engineering 127

All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

In many, high-throughput, OLTP style applications the database plays a crucial role to achieve scale, reliability, high-performance and cost efficiency. For a long time, these requirements were almost exclusively served by commercial, proprietary databases.

Database 117

Database Design Cloud Storage 117

Percona

JULY 1, 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 we should really compare is the MySQL and Aurora database engines provided by Amazon RDS. How do I choose which one to use?

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AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

New databases used to be announced seemingly every week. While database neogenesis has slowed down considerably, it has not gone necrotic. Anna is not only incredibly fast, it’s incredibly efficient and elastic too: an autoscaling, multi-tier, selectively-replicating cloud service. What's changed ?

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Storage Performance AWS Efficiency 199

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Troubleshooting a session in Edgar When we started building Edgar four years ago, there were very few open-source distributed tracing systems that satisfied our needs. Our tactical approach was to use Netflix-specific libraries for collecting traces from Java-based streaming services until open source tracer libraries matured.

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Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

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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Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 78

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. pgBackRest is a highly efficient and versatile tool for managing PostgreSQL backups.

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Database Open Source Storage Servers 94

Scalegrid

JULY 17, 2020

Why should a relational database even care about unstructured data? JSON database in 9.2 It is useful to validate incoming JSON and store in the database. JSONB supports indexing the JSON data, and is very efficient at parsing and querying the JSON data. JSONB storage results in a larger storage footprint.

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Storage Database Efficiency Processing 321

Percona

JUNE 30, 2023

Percona, a leading provider of open-source database software and services, announced the general availability of Percona Operator for PostgreSQL version 2. The solution is 100% open source and automates the deployment and management of PostgreSQL clusters on Kubernetes. In version 1.x,

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Availability Open Source Azure Hardware 93

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

Before we dive into the differences between MariaDB and MySQL, we will provide a thorough examination of each relational database management system (RDBMS). While originally designed to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL, it evolved into its own distinct database management system and is now maintained and supported by the MariaDB Foundation.

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Another source reported a 43% overall increase in Prometheus adoption for the last six months of 2021. As the two first graduates of the open source project incubator, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Kubernetes and Prometheus are usually deployed together. What is Prometheus?

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Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 171

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Grail combines the big-data storage of a data warehouse with the analytical flexibility of a data lake. These details include all the relationships among data from different sources—or cardinality. This unified approach enables Grail to vault past the limitations of traditional databases.

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Analytics Innovation Metrics Database 179

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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Storage Database Media Open Source 94

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In the Home Dashboard of PMM, a low CPU utilization on any of the database services that are being monitored could mean that the server is inactive or over-provisioned. From AWS documentation , Amazon EBS is an easy-to-use, scalable, high-performance block-storage service designed for Amazon EC2.

Cloud 118

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 118

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

Some startups adopted MySQL in its early days such as Facebook, Uber, Pinterest, and many more, which are now big and successful companies that prove that MySQL can run on large databases and on heavily used sites. In this blog post, we will review key topics to consider for managing large datasets more efficiently in MySQL.

Open Source 87

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 87

Percona

JULY 5, 2023

Fragmentation is a common concern in some database systems. In databases, we can experiment with different types of fragmentation: Segment Fragmentation : segments are fragmented; they are stored not following the order of data, or there are empty pages gaps between the data pages. What is fragmentation?

Open Source 125

Open Source Database Efficiency Testing 125

Percona

JUNE 6, 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. Get started today with Percona Backup for MongoDB. What is a full backup?

Storage 68

Storage Strategy Network Efficiency 68

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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Storage Open Source Database Efficiency 100

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

For nonurgent messages, texting is a more efficient approach. Consumers store messages in a queue — usually in a buffer or on a storage medium — until they can process and delete them. The problem could be in the database, the HTTP connection, the configuration of the message, or an outage on the sending or receiving end.

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Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 192

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

For nonurgent messages, texting is a more efficient approach. Consumers store messages in a queue — usually in a buffer or on a storage medium — until they can process and delete them. The problem could be in the database, the HTTP connection, the configuration of the message, or an outage on the sending or receiving end.

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Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 191

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. does not support making backups of databases created in MySQL 8.0, It’s time for the release roundup!

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Open Source Servers AWS Database 77

Percona

JULY 2, 2023

The size of the database and your database environment—if it is on colo or cloud—matters. Having a backup strategy in place that takes regular backups and has secure storage is essential to protect the database in an enterprise-grade environment to ensure its availability in the event of failures or disasters.

Strategy 52

Strategy Database Storage Open Source 52

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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AWS Storage Database Open Source 120