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May 24, 2024
Valkey/Redis: Migrating to Valkey
As you are probably aware, Redis decided to switch to a source-available, SSPLv1 license. This means, as of Redis 7.4, [...]
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May 24, 2024
Upcoming Percona University Events – France, Germany, and India
Experience a full day of deep-dive technical sessions and meet database experts and a community of open source database users, [...]
May 23, 2024
Beyond Cloud: The Impact of AI Agents on Platform Engineering
In November 2023, Bill Gates wrote an article about how AI would change the way we interact with computers and personal [...]
May 23, 2024
How to Migrate From MariaDB to MySQL
MySQL and MariaDB are two major open source database management systems that share a common codebase and history. MariaDB started [...]
May 22, 2024
Are Your Backups Able to Pass the Unisuper Test?
You may have heard about Unisuper’s problem last week; see here. The $135 billion dollar company’s data was wiped off [...]
May 21, 2024
High Availability: Choosing the Right Option for Your Percona Monitoring and Management
Ensuring your monitoring system stays up and running is vital. High availability (HA) minimizes downtime for Percona Monitoring and Management [...]
May 20, 2024
New Valkey Packages by Percona
Valkey 7.2.5 has been officially released as the first General Availability (GA) version, a significant milestone for the project. It [...]
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May 20, 2024
Can We Set up a Replicate Filter Within the Percona XtraDB Cluster?
If you were to ask me the question, “Would it be possible to set up a replicate filter within the [...]
May 16, 2024
Valkey/Redis: Not-So-Good Practices
As we’ve been introducing Valkey/Redis these past few weeks, let’s depart from the norm and talk about a few “things [...]
May 16, 2024
Choosing the Right Database: Comparing MariaDB vs. MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB
Selecting the appropriate database technology for your needs is crucial for ensuring compatibility with existing applications and infrastructure, optimizing application [...]
May 15, 2024
Valkey/Redis: Configuration Best Practices
In a few of our previous blog posts, we’ve seen how to get started with Valkey/Redis by running a simple [...]
May 14, 2024
Valkey/Redis: The Hash Datatype
In our previous blogs, we discussed the basic data types available in Valkey/Redis: Strings, Lists, Sets, and Sorted Sets. In [...]
May 13, 2024
Valkey/Redis Replication and Auto-Failover With Sentinel Service
In this Valkey blog post, I will demonstrate how we can set up a simple replication process among the Valkey [...]
May 13, 2024
Seamless Table Modifications: Leveraging pt-online-schema-change for Online Alterations
Table modifications are a routine task for database administrators. The blog post Using Percona Toolkit to Alter Database Tables Online: [...]
May 9, 2024
Valkey/Redis: Sets and Sorted Sets
In our previous post, we welcomed Valkey (an open source fork of Redis) to the Percona family. We also learned [...]
May 9, 2024
Securing Your MySQL Database: Essential Best Practices
Have you ever read a news story about a major company experiencing a data breach that exposed millions of customer [...]
May 8, 2024
Troubleshooting PostgreSQL on Kubernetes With Coroot
Coroot, an open source observability tool powered by eBPF, went generally available with version 1.0 last week. As this tool [...]
May 8, 2024
Mastering Database Monitoring: Running PMM in High Availability Mode
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) has become a valuable tool for database professionals, providing comprehensive insights into database health and [...]
May 7, 2024
Speed Up Repetitive PostgreSQL Statements With \gexec
Last week, we were assisting a client who needed to resolve an issue related to partitioned tables. Often, a table [...]