For years, my passion has been helping Open Source Founders reach their dreams. With my commitments as Percona, CEO, I could only manage to assist through brief, informal conversations. However,...

Memory instrumentation in MySQL Performance Schema allows for easy understanding of the memory usage details. Use custom queries to use memory instrumentation in Percona.

Please join Stephen Thorn and Michal Nosek, Percona Solution Engineers, on Tuesday, November 10th, at 1 pm EDT for their webinar "Google Cloud Platform: MySQL at Scale with Reliable HA".

Would you like to get the latest in Percona gear 100% free, shipped to you anywhere in the world? We know you do!

So you've installed PostgreSQL onto your machine, and you want to start working with it. What's next? Configuration changes!

Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev writes about the new features in Percona Monitoring and Management 2.10 that he absolutely loves... and why.

We are excited to share the great lineup of speakers who will be spotlighting key technological, industry, and social topics during Percona Live ONLINE.

A small new feature added to PostgreSQL 13 is dropdb --force.

Ibrar Ahmed explains the postgresq_fdw security and authentication changes in PostgreSQL 13.

One of the more “obscure” operations when dealing with replica lag is the rate limit. There are several ways to handle it, and one is with ProxySQL.

MariaDB 10.5 was released in June 2020 and it comes with some exciting new features. Here's what you need to know.

Looking at ways to deploy both Percona Kubernetes Operators with OpenEBS local storage.

This blog post describes how to run Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC Operator) using Kata containers. In this blog post, we describe how to run Percona Kubernetes Operator...

With the new Query Analytics dashboard in Percona Monitoring and Management, finding query slowdowns is easier than ever.

Percona has prepared a free course “How to Upgrade to MySQL 8.0” that can help you successfully upgrade to the new version.

At our recent Percona Live ONLINE we announced the release of the 2020 Open Source Data Management Software Survey results. 

In his keynote address on May 12. 2021, Peter Zaitsev, CEO of Percona, addressed the findings of the open source software survey, along with the impact of licensing changes and the importance of...

Today we’re announcing we are changing pricing for Percona Monitoring and Management on AWS Marketplace, effective June 1, 2021.

With the MySQL Semi-Sync Summary Dashboard + Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), you can see the most important metrics.

Run MongoDB on your terms Customers chose Percona for MongoDB because we offer enterprise-grade scalability and performance, paired with the freedom of open source. We deliver secure, rigorously...

The pg_stat_monitor extension for PostgreSQL provides much-needed query performance insights in a single view.

Percona and PostgreSQL work better together. Download this white paper to find out why.

Setting up automatic recovery for Percona Monitoring and Management instances deployed in AWS through Marketplace.

A common request that we receive is to provide a way to manage database users with Kubernetes Operators - both MongoDB and MySQL.

Percona Monitoring and Management DBaaS component allows users to CRUD Percona XtraDB Cluster and Percona Server for MongoDB databases in Kubernetes clusters.

We've been running monthly community meetings where our Engineering Gurus "talk technical" to share their knowledge. Join us!

Refreshing Dev/Test environments with PROD data is very common. Here's how to do it with Percona Backup for MongoDB.

Testing Percona Monitoring and Management using your laptop's VirtualBox, ssh tunnels, and without installing any agents on the database servers.

If your RDS instance is running a MySQL 8.0.X version, there’s a simple way to check data consistency.

With MongoDB 4.2 and up, it's possible to use an aggregation pipeline to update MongoDB documents conditionally, allowing the update/creation of a field based on another field.

Get Extended MySQL 5.6 EOL Support with Percona — run MySQL 5.6 based applications for up to three more years. Keep access to security patches and stay in compliance.

We are thrilled to announce Percona MongoDB Tech Day for Europe! Join us at this virtual event.

Unlocking the Mystery of MongoDB Shard Key Selection: Choose the Right MongoDB Shard Key for Your Business

About the Company Boasting 45+ solutions for sales, marketing, finance, recruitment, support, and collaboration, SaaS provider, Zoho, offers smart ways to grow the businesses of its 60 million global...

See how easy it is to migrate a PostgreSQL database to Kubernetes with minimal downtime with Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL Operator

To what extent is it possible to automate horizontal scaling of MongoDB, MySQL, and PostgreSQL databases in Kubernetes, and how do you do it?

How to configure a MongoDB sharded cluster in Percona Monitoring and Management.

Level Up the Gamers' Experience with Percona. Download this white paper to find out how.

We understand that choosing open source software for your business can be a potential minefield. You need to select the best available options, which fully support and adapt to your changing needs....

The Debian project announced the availability of Debian 11 (code name “bullseye”). And this week, we’ve released Percona products that include packages for it as a new supported OS platform.

How to port the PostgreSQL custom dashboards "PostgreSQL Tuple Statistics" and "PostgreSQL DB/Table Size Details" to Percona Monitoring and Management.

Percona Operator for MySQL based on Percona XtraDB Cluster added support for Point-In-Time Recovery, and here we take a look into the technical details and decisions we made to implement this feature.

Cluster Error Voting was ported to Percona XtraDB Cluster in version 8.0.21, and it is about increasing the resilience of the cluster especially when TWO nodes fail to operate and may drop from the...

DBaaS is really just a managed database platform that offloads much of the operational burden from the DBA team

Writing queries involving NULL can be tricky, particularly in PostgreSQL. Learn about the multiple meanings of NULL in PostgreSQL to avoid errors.

Failover of the logical replication slot has always been the pain point while using the logical replication in PostgreSQL... until Patroni 2.1.0.

ProxySQL brings a lot of value to your MySQL infrastructures such as Caching or Connection Multiplexing but it does not come free — your database needs to go through additional processing traffic...

Percona University Online has released its second free course, "A Deep Dive Into PostgreSQL Indexes" by Ibrar Ahmed, Senior Software Engineer at Percona.

a guide on how to deploy Percona Distribution for MySQL on Kubernetes with Flux - GitOps Operator that keeps your cluster state in sync with the Git repository.

Please join Peter Zaitsev on Wednesday, April 14th, 2021, at 11 am EDT for his webinar Optimize and Troubleshoot MySQL using PMM.

Need to migrate an existing MySQL database into Kubernetes?

There are many approaches to troubleshooting high CPU usage, but here we present a simple, widely-used approach that can be adapted to MySQL.

Migrating MongoDB to Kubernetes is a challenging task, but it is much simpler with Percona Distribution for MongoDB Operator.

Today saw the launch of PostgreSQL14, so let's look at what the community has done to improve performance for heavy transactional workloads and additional support for distributed data.

Percona's Vadim Tkachenko evaluates checkpointing in PostgreSQL with varying log sizes from 1GB to 100GB.

A common request that we receive is to provide a way to manage database users with Kubernetes Operators - both MongoDB and MySQL.

One way to deal with massive data sets in MySQL is splitting the data horizontally and spreading it across multiple equally sized instances.

Percona training courses and services provide your company and your DBAs with needed expertise on MySQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, PostgreSQL and other open source database software.

How Relational Databases Work. This post talks about how indexes and transactions work on the inside of relational databases.

Understand SQL indexes, organize your knowledge, and memorize good practices regarding performance optimization in PostgreSQL.

To what extent is it possible to automate horizontal scaling of MongoDB, MySQL, and PostgreSQL databases in Kubernetes, and how do you do it?

Since some are using Percona Monitoring and Management for big deployments, we have created experimental dashboards for these users.

Join the live stream event: Percona and friends react to MongoDB Live. What's in MongoDB 5.0.0 and how will new features impact the community.

In an open letter to the Parliament, the Dutch minister for internal affairs Raymond Knops commits to a "Free Software by default" policy and underlines it...

Please join Stephen Thorn and Michal Nosek on Wednesday, August 19 at 11 am EDT for their webinar "MongoDB Encryption at Rest".

To what extent is it possible to automate horizontal scaling of MongoDB, MySQL, and PostgreSQL databases in Kubernetes, and how do you do it?

Covering multi-master replication solutions for PostgreSQL including BDR, xDB, PostgreSQL XL, Bucardo, and more.

In this blog we will look at troubleshooting MySQL issues and performance bottlenecks with the help of Percona Monitoring and Management.

This post is a short guide for tuning the various releases of InnoDB for a write intensive workload. It aims at fixing many common misconceptions.

This is a comprehensive guide, packed with best practices and expert insights about proper deployment, to master the art of seamless database migrations.

Exploring the tradeoffs of different database indexes; from sequential integers, randomly generated UUIDs, to time-based identifiers and the latest & greatest UUIDv7

Monitor your OPNSense based firewall with any Prometheus-compatible system, including Percona Monitoring and Management.