by Jan Wieremjewicz | Apr 10, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
February 2024 marked the end of life (EOL) of MongoDB 4.4.Another year, another EOL, is a fitting summary. Time goes by fast, and looking from this perspective, 5.0 is one we will soon also say goodbye to, as this year, 5.0 is also going EOL in October. Why is MongoDB... by Jan Wieremjewicz | Mar 5, 2024 | MongoDB, Percona Software
Those memes that were super popular a couple of years ago show how you, your family, friends, and boss see your job vs. what you actually do. “Making sure we’re doing the right things” — that’s a one-sentence catchphrase I tell my... by Jan Wieremjewicz | Nov 8, 2023 | Database Trends, PostgreSQL
According to the official PostgreSQL versioning policy page, the final PostgreSQL 11 release is expected by November 9, 2023. Since no new releases are planned by that date, PostgreSQL 11 has effectively reached its End of Life.We encourage our users and customers to... by Jan Wieremjewicz | Oct 10, 2023 | MongoDB, Percona Software
Databases are different from a lot of software. For one, they often favor stability over innovation. This is not a general rule, but as databases are responsible for a core layer of any IT system – data storage and processing — they require reliability.... by Jan Wieremjewicz | Sep 19, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL Community released PostgreSQL 16 on September 14, 2023. In years past, we’ve released our Distribution for PostgreSQL a few months later. We wanted to improve in this regard and establish a new release baseline. Improving quality while... by Jan Wieremjewicz | Jul 24, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
In the previous minor release, Percona Backup for MongoDB 2.1.0 (PBM) introduced a GA version of incremental physical backups, which can greatly impact both the recovery time and the cost of backup (considering storage and data transfer cost). Back then, we already... by Jan Wieremjewicz | May 15, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Enjoy it while it lasts, as everything has its end.It sounded a bit more cryptic than it was planned, but I hope that it gets the attention it needs, as it’s important to know that MongoDB 4.2 in April has reached its End of Life (EOL), and more versions are... by Jan Wieremjewicz | Apr 28, 2023 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software, Security
Did you notice that Percona Server for MongoDB 6.0.5-4 was released just a few days ago? This time around, it introduced improvements to the way we handle master key rotation for data at rest encryption as well as AWS IAM integration. One key to rule them all —... by Jan Wieremjewicz | Feb 27, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
The transition to Apple Silicon (the M1, M2 ARM-based CPUs) has been great for macOS fans in many ways, but it’s added some friction when you want to run containers locally for testing or development. The good news is we’ve got you covered with ARM64... by Jan Wieremjewicz | Feb 24, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
We’re pleased to announce that Percona Server for MongoDB 6.0.4 adds support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 and compatible Linux distributions.With the 6.0.4 release you can now run Percona Server for MongoDB 6 on RHEL 7, 8, and 9, as well as Debian 10... by Jan Wieremjewicz | Feb 14, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, PostgreSQL
The final PostgreSQL 10 release was published on November 10, 2022, according to the PostgreSQL versioning policy page. Please remember that the final PostgreSQL 11 release is planned for November 9, 2023.Following Percona’s Release Lifecycle policies, we follow... by Jan Wieremjewicz | Jan 11, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
MongoDB is a great database that provides outstanding high availability solutions out of the box. For most Database Administrators (DBAs) we talk with, though, the awesome safety features we came to appreciate MongoDB for, like automatic failover or data redundancy,... by Jan Wieremjewicz | Nov 4, 2022 | MongoDB, Percona Software
Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB) is a source available database server for MongoDB based on the same upstream code as MongoDB Community Edition. Percona, while committed to providing open source software to the Community in case of the MongoDB database server is... by Jan Wieremjewicz | Oct 19, 2022 | MongoDB, Percona Software
Although MongoDB has a very rigid high availability (HA) mechanism built in its core, automatic failover and data redundancy will not satisfy the security requirements of most enterprises. Not alone, at least. Understanding the needs of the MongoDB community, Percona... by Jan Wieremjewicz | Sep 21, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
MongoDB is a cross-platform, document-oriented NoSQL database. It has been developed as an answer to the growing need for easy-to-use yet very performant, scalable, and content-agnostic storage. MongoDB has been widely adopted by engineers across application...