by Pete Scott | Feb 2, 2024 | Database Trends, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
This blog was originally published in August of 2023 and updated in February of 2024.To fully answer the question — and to make the information relevant and solution-focused for enterprise businesses and organizations — we’ll also ask and answer a... by Pete Scott | Aug 30, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, Open Source
People used to say, “Coal is king,” and for decades, it was. Coal powered just about everything, but mismanagement and a lack of stewardship left some messes. These days, “Data is king,” and a lot more. Data powers everything, and unlike... by Pete Scott | Aug 22, 2023 | Benchmarks, Database Trends, Insight for DBAs
Estimates vary, but most reports put the average cost of unplanned database downtime at approximately $300,000 to $500,000 per hour, or $5,000 to $8,000 per minute. With so much at stake, database high availability and fault tolerance have become must-have items, but... by Pete Scott | Jul 17, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
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... by Pete Scott | Jul 7, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, PostgreSQL
With the average cost of unplanned downtime running from $300,000 to $500,000 per hour, businesses are increasingly using high availability (HA) technologies to maximize application uptime. Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA... by Pete Scott | Jun 22, 2023 | Benchmarks, Insight for DBAs, Percona Software
To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. That doesn’t mean downtime is nonexistent, but it must be limited so that significant/irreparable damage (as defined by the business... by Pete Scott | Jun 12, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
When it comes to access to their applications, users demand instant, reliable, and secure interactions — and that means databases must be highly available.With database high availability (HA), services are largely uninterrupted, and end users are largely... by Pete Scott | May 9, 2023 | Database Trends, Insight for DBAs, Open Source
Vendor lock-in. The term is inherently ominous, and a broad definition isn’t much cheerier. They both suggest limited or lost freedom. To determine whether that perception is warranted in the database software industry — and if so, how to avoid vendor... by Pete Scott | Apr 28, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, Open Source, Percona Software
For starters, yes, Percona has chosen sides. We are a company of open source proponents. We’re also dedicated and active participants in the global open source community. But the intent here is to be informative, not to declare a winner between the two.... by Pete Scott | Apr 14, 2023 | Database Trends, Insight for DBAs
Here we are, with an economic downturn looming globally and some countries facing a recession. For many execs and tech decision-makers in the financial services industry, it’s not the first go-round. During the recession of 2008, they experienced firsthand how... by Pete Scott | Apr 12, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Search for an answer, and you can find plenty of folks who say “yes” to both.At Percona, our answer is “no” to the MongoDB question — and “no” to the flat-Earth question. We’re equally convinced on both counts, but in... by Pete Scott | Mar 30, 2023 | Insight for DBAs
The use of open source databases has increased steadily in recent years. Past trepidation — about perceived vulnerabilities and performance issues — has faded as decision makers realize what an “open source database” really is and what it...