Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:45:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://www.percona.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-percona-favicon-32x32.png 32 32 76301791 https://www.percona.com/blog/when-should-i-enable-mongodb-sharding/ https://www.percona.com/blog/when-should-i-enable-mongodb-sharding/#respond Fri, 01 Sep 2023 09:00:47 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=45716 This blog was originally published in October 2017 and was updated in September 2023.In this blog post, we will talk about MongoDB sharding and walk through the main reasons why you should start a cluster (independent of the approach you have chosen). Database architects working with MongoDB encounter specific challenges related to database systems and […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/when-should-i-enable-mongodb-sharding/feed/ 0 45716 https://www.percona.com/blog/setting-up-mongodb-with-member-x509-auth-and-ssl-easy-rsa/ https://www.percona.com/blog/setting-up-mongodb-with-member-x509-auth-and-ssl-easy-rsa/#comments Mon, 28 Oct 2019 17:44:51 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=62834 Hi everyone! This is one of the most requested subjects to our support team and I’d like to share the steps as a tutorial blog post. Today, we will set up internal authentication using x.509 certificates as well as enabling TSL/SSL.If using authentication in MongoDB, there are two ways to configure intra-cluster authentication: Using a […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/setting-up-mongodb-with-member-x509-auth-and-ssl-easy-rsa/feed/ 1 62834 https://www.percona.com/blog/resolving-mongodb-stack-trace/ https://www.percona.com/blog/resolving-mongodb-stack-trace/#comments Thu, 18 Jul 2019 14:29:42 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=59110 When a MongoDB server crashes you will usually find what is called a “stack trace” in its log file. But what is it and what purpose does it have? Let’s simulate a simple crash so we can dig into it.Crashing a test serverIn a test setup with a freshly installed MongoDB server, we connect to […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/resolving-mongodb-stack-trace/feed/ 3 59110 https://www.percona.com/blog/hiding-fields-in-mongodb-views-custom-roles/ Fri, 05 Jul 2019 15:11:02 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=57611 A time ago we wrote about how personalized roles may help you to give specific permissions when it is needed. This time we want to discuss how a custom role, combined with a MongoDB View, can hide sensitive information from the client.Hiding Fields in MongoDBSuppose you have a collection that needs to be shared with […]]]> 57611 https://www.percona.com/blog/mongodb-on-arm-processors/ https://www.percona.com/blog/mongodb-on-arm-processors/#comments Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:31:53 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=55612 ARM processors have been around for a while. In mid-2015/2016 there were a couple of attempts by the community to port MongoDB to work with this architecture. At the time, the main storage engine was MMAP and most of the available ARM boards were 32-bits. Overall, the port worked, but the fact is having MongoDB […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/mongodb-on-arm-processors/feed/ 6 55612 https://www.percona.com/blog/webinar-percona-mongodb-enterprise/ https://www.percona.com/blog/webinar-percona-mongodb-enterprise/#comments Tue, 18 Sep 2018 00:08:02 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=52653 Please join Percona’s Senior Support Engineer, Adamo Tonete, as he presents Percona Server for MongoDB vs MongoDB Enterprise on Wednesday, September 19th, 2018, at 12:30 PM PDT (UTC-7) / 3:30 PM EDT (UTC-4).Register Now In this webinar we will evaluate MongoDB Community, MongoDB Enterprise Advanced, and Percona Server for MongoDB side-by-side to better inform the decision making […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/webinar-percona-mongodb-enterprise/feed/ 1 52653 https://www.percona.com/blog/webinar-mongodb-sharding-101-geo-partitioning/ Tue, 24 Jul 2018 21:02:38 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=51400 Please join Percona’s Senior Support Engineer, Adamo Tonete as he presents MongoDB Sharding 101 – Geo-Partitioning on Thursday, July 26th, 2018 at 12:30 PM PDT (UTC-7) 3:30 EDT (UTC-4).Register NowIn this webinar, we will discuss the common shard keys and demonstrate how to build a worldwide distributed sharded cluster using tags.Tags can be used to […]]]> 51400 https://www.percona.com/blog/webinar-wed-7-19-mongodb-sharding/ Wed, 18 Jul 2018 15:55:38 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=51345 Please join Percona’s Senior Support Engineer, Adamo Tonete as he presents MongoDB Sharding 101 on July 19th, 2018, at 12:30 PM PDT (UTC-7) / 3:30 PM EDT (UTC-4).Register Now This tutorial is a continuation of advanced topics for the DBA. In it, we will share best practices and tips on how to perform the most common […]]]> 51345 https://www.percona.com/blog/mongodb-transactions-your-very-first-transaction-with-mongodb-4-0/ https://www.percona.com/blog/mongodb-transactions-your-very-first-transaction-with-mongodb-4-0/#comments Mon, 25 Jun 2018 13:59:08 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=50488 MongoDB 4.0 is just around the corner and with rc0 we can get a good idea of what we can expect in the GA version. MongoDB 4.0 will allow transactions to run in a replica set and, in a future release, the MongoDB transaction will work for sharded clusters. This is a really big change!Multi-statement transactions […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/mongodb-transactions-your-very-first-transaction-with-mongodb-4-0/feed/ 3 50488 https://www.percona.com/blog/finding-the-right-direction-mongodb-compass-community-version/ Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:48:46 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=50568 In this blog post, we will talk a bit about the product MongoDB Compass. This new tool has 3 main versions, these being: Community, Enterprise and Enterprise Read Only. MongoDB Compass Community is free, but a bit limited. It allows you to connect to your MongoDB Database to run queries, check queries execution plans, manage indexes, and create, […]]]> 50568 https://www.percona.com/blog/webinar-thursday-5-24-whats-new-mongodb-3-6/ Tue, 22 May 2018 18:59:10 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=50236 Please join Percona’s Senior Support Engineer, Adamo Tonete as he presents What’s New in MongoDB 3.6 on Thursday, May 24th, 2018, at 12:30 PM PDT (UTC-7) / 3:30 PM EDT (UTC-4).In this webinar, Adamo will walk though what’s new in MongoDB 3.6, including: Change streams for building reactive, real-time applications Retryable writes for always-on write […]]]> 50236 https://www.percona.com/blog/starting-mongodb-database-software/ Tue, 10 Apr 2018 00:13:27 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=49158 In this blog post, we will cover how to start MongoDB database software in the three most used platforms: Windows/Linux/MacOS.If you have just started with NoSQL databases, you might wonder how to evaluate if MongoDB is a good fit for your application.Percona provides a signed version of MongoDB called Percona Server for MongoDB with a couple […]]]> 49158 https://www.percona.com/blog/five-tips-to-optimize-mongodb/ Thu, 22 Mar 2018 21:46:01 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=48098 Have you ever had performance issues with your MongoDB database? A common situation is a sudden performance issue when running a query. The obvious first solution is “let’s create an index!” While this works in some cases, there are other options we need to consider when trying to optimize MongoDB.Performance is not a matter of having […]]]> 48098 https://www.percona.com/blog/pmm-mongodb-basic-graphs-for-a-good-system-overview/ Fri, 02 Mar 2018 17:10:06 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=47659 In this blog post, we will discuss how to use Percona Monitoring and Management for MongoDB monitoring, and how to get some key graphs to monitor your MongoDB database.All production environments need metrics and historical data for easy and fast comparison of performance, throughput in the time.Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) can help your company […]]]> 47659 https://www.percona.com/blog/mongodb-3-6-transactions/ https://www.percona.com/blog/mongodb-3-6-transactions/#comments Wed, 13 Dec 2017 21:48:03 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=46425 In this blog post, we are going to focus on the pre-cursors to MongoDB 3.6 transactions.As already discussed in this series, MongoDB 3.6 has a good number of features in it. Many of them center around sessions (which David Murphy already talked about). Some are highly anticipated by customers, whereas others are very case-specific.We’ll look at the […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/mongodb-3-6-transactions/feed/ 5 46425 https://www.percona.com/blog/upcoming-mongodb-security-webinar-november-8-2017-enhanced-security-using-ldap-authentication/ Tue, 07 Nov 2017 15:58:23 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=46038 Join Percona’s Senior Technical Services Engineer Adamo Tonete as he presents MongoDB Security Webinars: Enhanced Security Using LDAP Authentication on Wednesday, November 8, 2017 at 11:00 am PST / 2:00 pm EST (UTC-8). Experience: Intermediate Tags: SysAdmin, DBAs In this webinar, we are going to demonstrate how to configure Percona Server for MongoDB in a […]]]> 46038 https://www.percona.com/blog/mongodb-security-using-ldap-authentication/ Mon, 06 Nov 2017 22:47:51 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=46008 In this blog post, we’ll focus on MongoDB security and discuss how to configure Percona Server for MongoDB to authenticate a user with an LDAP server.It is important to mention that Percona Server for MongoDB features LDAP authentication free of charge for everyone in all our versions. This feature is not available in the MongoDB Community versions. Make […]]]> 46008 https://www.percona.com/blog/webinar-wednesday-october-18-2017-scale-with-mongodb/ Tue, 17 Oct 2017 15:40:29 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=45743 Join Percona’s Senior Technical Services Engineer Adamo Tonete as he presents How To Scale with MongoDB on Wednesday, October 18, 2017, at 11:00 am PDT / 2:00 pm EDT (UTC-7).Register NowIn this webinar, we will talk about how to scale with MongoDB, up to thousands of writes and reads per second. What are the common […]]]> 45743 https://www.percona.com/blog/mongodb-indexing-types-how-when-and-where-should-they-be-used/ https://www.percona.com/blog/mongodb-indexing-types-how-when-and-where-should-they-be-used/#comments Sat, 08 Jul 2017 22:18:37 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=44328 In this blog post, we will talk about MongoDB indexing, and the different types of indexes that are available in MongoDB.Note: We are hosting a webinar on July 12, 2017, where I will talk about MongoDB indexes and how to choose a good indexing plan.MongoDB is a NoSQL database that is document-oriented. NoSQL databases share […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/mongodb-indexing-types-how-when-and-where-should-they-be-used/feed/ 1 44328 https://www.percona.com/blog/last-resort-how-to-use-a-backup-to-start-a-secondary-instance-for-mongodb/ Fri, 07 Jul 2017 18:56:23 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=44065 In this blog post, I’ll look at how you can use a backup to start a secondary instance for MongoDB.Although the documentation says it is not possible to use a backup to start a secondary, sometimes this is the only possible way to start a new instance. In this blog post, we will explain how to […]]]> 44065