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May 20, 2024
New Valkey Packages by Percona
Valkey 7.2.5 has been officially released as the first General Availability (GA) version, a significant milestone for the project. It [...]
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May 20, 2024
Can We Set up a Replicate Filter Within the Percona XtraDB Cluster?
If you were to ask me the question, “Would it be possible to set up a replicate filter within the [...]
May 16, 2024
Valkey/Redis: Not-So-Good Practices
As we’ve been introducing Valkey/Redis these past few weeks, let’s depart from the norm and talk about a few “things [...]
May 16, 2024
Choosing the Right Database: Comparing MariaDB vs. MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB
Selecting the appropriate database technology for your needs is crucial for ensuring compatibility with existing applications and infrastructure, optimizing application [...]
May 15, 2024
Valkey/Redis: Configuration Best Practices
In a few of our previous blog posts, we’ve seen how to get started with Valkey/Redis by running a simple [...]
May 14, 2024
Valkey/Redis: The Hash Datatype
In our previous blogs, we discussed the basic data types available in Valkey/Redis: Strings, Lists, Sets, and Sorted Sets. In [...]
May 13, 2024
Valkey/Redis Replication and Auto-Failover With Sentinel Service
In this Valkey blog post, I will demonstrate how we can set up a simple replication process among the Valkey [...]
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May 13, 2024
Seamless Table Modifications: Leveraging pt-online-schema-change for Online Alterations
Table modifications are a routine task for database administrators. The blog post Using Percona Toolkit to Alter Database Tables Online: [...]
May 9, 2024
Valkey/Redis: Sets and Sorted Sets
In our previous post, we welcomed Valkey (an open source fork of Redis) to the Percona family. We also learned [...]
May 9, 2024
Securing Your MySQL Database: Essential Best Practices
Have you ever read a news story about a major company experiencing a data breach that exposed millions of customer [...]
May 8, 2024
Troubleshooting PostgreSQL on Kubernetes With Coroot
Coroot, an open source observability tool powered by eBPF, went generally available with version 1.0 last week. As this tool [...]
May 8, 2024
Mastering Database Monitoring: Running PMM in High Availability Mode
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) has become a valuable tool for database professionals, providing comprehensive insights into database health and [...]
May 7, 2024
Speed Up Repetitive PostgreSQL Statements With \gexec
Last week, we were assisting a client who needed to resolve an issue related to partitioned tables. Often, a table [...]
May 7, 2024
Hello World… Hello Valkey! Let’s Get Started!
Welcome Valkey to the Percona family! We are excited to have you join our team of MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB [...]
May 6, 2024
Valkey/Redis Configurations and Persistent Setting of the Key Parameters
Since Valkey (a fork of Redis) is around the corner, I thought to write a short blog post about some [...]
May 6, 2024
Securing Your MongoDB Database: Essential Best Practices
MongoDB offers powerful features and scalability, but like any database system, it has security challenges that must be addressed to [...]
May 1, 2024
MySQL 8.4 First Peek
MySQL 8.4 has now been officially released, and this is a quick review of what is in the release notes. [...]
April 30, 2024
LDAP Authentication in PgBouncer Through PAM
There are many cases where external connection poolers like pgBouncer become unavoidable despite the costs and complexities associated with them. [...]
April 30, 2024
Redis, Valkey, and Percona’s Ongoing Support of Open Source
For me, the Redis story starts with… Memcached. Back in the early 2000s, “Web 2.0” was being built following [...]