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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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Reducing Your Database Hosting Costs: DigitalOcean vs. AWS vs. Azure

Scalegrid

If you’re hosting your databases in the cloud, choosing the right cloud service provider is a significant decision to make for your long-term hosting costs. Over the last few weeks, we have been inundated with requests from SMB customers looking to improve the ROI on their database hosting. MongoDB® Database. EC2 instances.

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Database Housekeeping in the New Year

Percona

Now it is time to get your databases ready for the rest of the year. Check the versions of database connectors, programming languages, and proceed all the way down to the operating system. Have you been looking at the recent features and changes in your database software? Welcome to 2023! First, how are your backups?

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London Open Source Database Community Meetup

Percona Community

Communities are the real strength of open source. Creating a base of knowledge and a network of relations.These can become work relationships, valuable discussions, open source tools, or even friendships. I strongly believe in the community.

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Should You Keep Your Business Logic In Your Database?

Percona

Open source database architects usually do not implement business logic in their databases. This is in stark contrast to many commercial databases where this is a common practice. In the first case, all the heuristics are kept at the application layer, and the database has little or no effect on the data quality.

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OpenShift vs. Kubernetes: Understanding the differences

Dynatrace

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. Networking. What is Kubernetes? Ease of use.

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Vulnerability assessment: key to protecting applications and infrastructure

Dynatrace

Examples of such weaknesses are errors in application code, misconfigured network devices, and overly permissive access controls in a database. Network analysis looks for weaknesses within a network’s configurations and policies that would allow network access to unauthorized users. Analyze findings.