Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

The unstoppable rise of open source databases. One database in particular is causing a huge dent in Oracle’s market share – open source PostgreSQL. See how open source PostgreSQL Community version costs compare to Oracle Standard Edition and Oracle Enterprise Edition. What’s causing this massive shift?

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

MySQL is a popular open-source relational database management system for online applications and data warehousing. However, data loss is always possible due to hardware malfunction, software defects, or other unforeseen circumstances, just like with any computer system.

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

There are many things I love about it – PL/ PG SQL, smart defaults, replication (that actually works out of the box), and an active and vibrant open source community. Hopefully we can generate enough interest in the open source community to prioritize these features. Why not have this built it into the server?

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Database Open Source Storage Servers 184

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. Our Release Roundups showcase the latest Percona software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software.

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Open Source Storage AWS Cloud 84

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2021

The complexity of such deployments has accelerated with the adoption of emerging, open-source technologies that generate telemetry data, which is exploding in terms of volume, speed, and cardinality. To achieve this, Dynatrace uniquely creates a data model that represents all detected software components and their interdependencies.

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Analytics Open Source Serverless Architecture 246

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit for services and applications that run in containers. Prometheus components include client libraries for application code instrumentation, special-purpose exporters for popular services, and the optional Prometheus server for orchestrating service discovery and data storage.

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Technology Technology Monitoring AWS 209

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Software failure: Software applications can become vulnerable, or they can crash altogether. Human mistakes: Incorrect configuration is an all-too-common cause of hardware and software failure. An incremental backup, which is faster and requires less storage than a full backup, captures changes made since the previous backup.

Database 87

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 87

Percona

JUNE 29, 2023

Before Percona Server for MongoDB 4.4 PSMDB), the best practice to create an index was doing it in a rolling manner. Many folks used to create directly on Primary, resulting in the first index being created successfully on Primary and then replicated to Secondary nodes. Starting from PSMDB 4.4, internal", "port" : 27017, "version" : "4.4.22-21",

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Servers C++ Storage Best Practices 80

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Despite all its upside, PostgreSQL software presents such challenges. PostgreSQL software supports synchronous streaming replication, asynchronous streaming replication, and logical replication.

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Percona

APRIL 24, 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. Percona XtraDB Cluster is based on Percona Server for MySQL. Take a look!

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Open Source Storage Servers Database 78

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. Percona Server for MongoDB 5.0.17-14 Download Percona Server for MongoDB 5.0.17-14

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Monitoring Open Source Database Servers 77

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. Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.42-46 Take a look! was released on June 5, 2023.

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Open Source Servers Database Scalability 83

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. If a primary server fails, a backup server can take over and continue to serve requests.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 107

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. Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB) supports all types of compression and enterprise-grade features for free.

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Storage Network Open Source Latency 108

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Since December 10, days after a critical vulnerability known as Log4Shell was discovered in servers supporting the game Minecraft, millions of exploit attempts have been made of the Log4j 2 Java library, according to one team tracking the impact, with potential threat to millions more applications and devices across the globe. Dynatrace news.

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Internet Internet Games Java 260

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

At Percona, we observe a growing trend among companies utilizing Kubernetes as a means to offer services to their teams, fostering expedited software delivery and driving business growth. The newly formed Open Source AI Alliance , led by META and IBM, promises to support open-source AI.

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Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 79

Percona

JULY 17, 2023

MongoDB Community Edition software might set the stage for achieving your high-volume database goals, but you quickly learn that its features fall short of your enterprise needs. So you look at MongoDB Enterprise software, but its costly and complex licensing structure does not meet your budget goals.

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Open Source Database Scalability Software 75

The Polyglot Developer

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

So I was researching object storage and I came across the open source distributed object storage software, Minio. This lightweight software was written with Golang and accomplishes similar things to that of Amazon S3. After all they are both object storage solutions.

Storage 72

Storage Hardware Open Source Architecture 72

Percona

MARCH 13, 2023

to MySQL 8, we could choose to do an in-place upgrade or set up another MySQL 8 server(s) from the existing running MySQL 5.7 server with Percona XtraBackup. In my lab, we have two test nodes: PRIMARY: mysql57 (192.168.56.111) with Percona Server 5.7 server instances are ready for an upgrade. On primary server mysql5.7,

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Servers C++ Storage Systems 103

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

In this blog, we’ll provide a comparison between MariaDB vs. MySQL (including Percona Server for MySQL ). Introduction: MariaDB vs. MySQL The goal of this blog post is to evaluate, at a higher level, MariaDB vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL side-by-side to better inform the decision making process. What is MariaDB?

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Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

PostgreSQL is open source relational database management software. It has evolved steadily, however, during 25 years as an open source project. Another reason for PostgreSQL popularity (perhaps the biggest): It’s open source and free to use, distribute, and modify. What is PostgreSQL used for?

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Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 78

Percona

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Starting with Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.34-26 Compress the audit log files to reduce the storage space occupied with log files. A server restart is not required to add or adjust existing filtering rules. 26 , the Audit Log Filter is available in a technical preview mode. Dynamically enable or disable the auditing.

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Open Source Database Servers Storage 104

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. Our Release Roundups showcase the latest Percona software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software.

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Open Source Servers AWS Database 77

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

We’ll wrap it up by suggesting high availability open source solutions, and we’ll introduce you to support options for ensuring continuous high performance from your systems. Load balancing: Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded. What is fault tolerance?

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Availability Hardware Open Source Database 79

Percona

JULY 25, 2023

You can choose to save them locally on the same server, stream them to different servers, or store them in object storage. STDOUT Datasink This diagram displays the process of streaming a backup to object storage utilizing the current STDOUT datasink: XtraBackup spawns multiple copy threads.

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Storage Speed Open Source Servers 78

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. Hint Hint, ProxySQL helps.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 104

Percona

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Xbcloud is a tool part of Percona XtraBackup and allows you to upload and download backups to Amazon S3 storage. Percona XtraBackup is a free, open source, complete online backup solution for all versions of Percona Server for MySQL and MySQL.

Storage 92

Storage Open Source AWS Servers 92

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Metrics are measures of critical system values, such as CPU utilization or average write latency to persistent storage. With limited visibility, teams have a narrow understanding of how those decisions impact other software components and vice-versa. Observability is made up of three key pillars: metrics, logs, and traces.

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Artificial Intelligence Metrics Architecture DevOps 177

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. Our Release Roundups showcase the latest Percona software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software.

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Open Source Azure Database Servers 62

Percona

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Since our previous blog post, Adding Transparent Data Encryption to PostgreSQL with pg_tde: Please Test , it received new features such as TOAST data encryption and HashiCorp Vault support for key storage. deb package, or as source code on github.

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Open Source Storage Database C++ 83

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nevertheless, there are related components and processes, for example, virtualization infrastructure and storage systems (see image below), that can lead to problems in your Kubernetes infrastructure. After applying the first manifests (which are likely copied and pasted from a how-to tutorial ), a web server is up and running within minutes.

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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. Marked in red in Figure 1 is a server with less than 30% of CPU usage. Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is your good-to-go option for disk space.

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Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 118

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud Kleppmann et al., If you start reading this paper you could be lost for hours following all the interesting links and ideas, and end up even more dissatisfied than you already are with the state of software today. Local-first software ideals. It should be fast.

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Cloud Software Software Internet 83

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The output is larger than for physical backup, particularly when saved in text format, but it can be compressed on the fly depending on the software you are using. on, you can use mysqlbinlog to stream binary logs from a remote server. Seven daily and four weekly logical backups locally on the backup server. From MySQL 5.6

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Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 79

Percona

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Now, since backup speed and compactness are important for busy, important databases, Percona’s open source physical backup solution – Percona XtraBackup (PXB) , takes into account all these aspects and benefits MySQL world with its exceptional capabilities! Your MySQL connection id is 10 (X protocol) Server version: 8.0.33-25

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C++ Servers Storage Speed 104

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Percona

AUGUST 18, 2023

Why do you need multiple instances on the same server? You can have a host with two or three instances configured as a delayed replica of the source server with SQL Delay of, let’s say, 24hr, 12hr, and 6/3hrs. You can run multiple instances on a server to test your backups with the correct version and configs.

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Programming Servers Database Hardware 84