by Rick Golba | Oct 19, 2020 | Open Source, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
Percona is pleased to announce the release of Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 13. This release is available for immediate download and includes all of the latest features of PostgreSQL 13 Core Distribution. Reduce Resource Usage This release includes enhancements... by Rick Golba | Aug 26, 2020 | MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software
On August 26, 2020, Percona announced the latest release of Percona Distribution for MongoDB which includes new releases of Percona Backup for MongoDB 1.3, now with Point in Time Recovery and Percona Server for MongoDB 4.4. These new releases include several key... by Rick Golba | Jul 21, 2020 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
On July 21, 2020, Percona delivered an updated version of our Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) focused on easing deployment and operations management of a clustered MySQL environment. Included in the Percona Distribution for MySQL, our... by Rick Golba | Jul 16, 2020 | Monitoring, Percona Announcements, Percona Software
Effective August 1, 2020, Percona is moving the Percona Monitoring Plugins to end of life status. This means that no new versions, enhancements, bug fixes, or security updates will be released. The software will continue to be available at our download site.The... by Rick Golba | Jun 23, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Percona is pleased to announce the release of Percona Distribution for MySQL. Following our recent releases of Percona Distribution for MongoDB and Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL, we have assembled the best and most critical enterprise components for MySQL,... by Rick Golba | May 19, 2020 | MongoDB, Percona Software
Percona is pleased to announce the release of Percona Distribution for MongoDB. This release combines two existing Percona products, Percona Server for MongoDB and Percona Backup for MongoDB, into one simple to install package. The distribution is an open-source... by Rick Golba | May 19, 2020 | Percona Software, PostgreSQL
Percona is pleased to announce the release of an updated version of Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL. Following on our initial PostgreSQL Distribution, released in September 2019, this update incorporates the new features of PostgreSQL 12.2 Core Distribution... by Rick Golba | Apr 29, 2020 | MySQL, Percona Announcements, Percona Software
April 29, 2020 – Percona is pleased to announce the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0. This release, based on Percona Server for MySQL 8.0 and Galera 4, brings together the best features of these and other products to deliver an open-source high availability... by Rick Golba | Jan 29, 2020 | MongoDB, Percona Software
As noted on our Software and Platform Lifecycle page, Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 reached end of life on January 31, 2020. According to the Percona Services Lifecycle Policy, customers with an active support contract with Percona will continue receiving... by Rick Golba | Sep 17, 2019 | Percona Software, PostgreSQL
Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL – the best and most critical enterprise-level components from the open-source community, brought together in one single source. Percona is pleased to announce the general availability of our Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL... by Rick Golba | Aug 19, 2019 | Percona Software, PostgreSQL
Percona is excited to announce the beta release of Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 11 on August 19, 2019. This release signifies a change in Percona’s software release process. In order to provide a full-featured and holistic solution, we are introducing a... by Rick Golba | May 29, 2019 | Cloud, Percona Software
Percona announced the release of Percona Kubernetes Operator for XtraDB Cluster and Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona Server for MongoDB. Kubernetes delivers a method to orchestrate containers, providing automated deployment, management, and scalability.In... by Rick Golba | Nov 25, 2018 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
Join Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev at AWS re:Invent as he presents MySQL High Availability and Disaster Recovery on Tuesday, November 27, 2018, in the Bellagio Resort, Level 1, Gaugin 2 at 1:45 PM.In this hour-long session, Peter describes the differences between high... by Rick Golba | Jun 20, 2018 | Cloud, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL
Serverless is a new buzzword in the database industry. Even though it gets tossed around often, there is some confusion about what it really means and how it really works. Serverless architectures rely on third-party Backend as a Service (BaaS) services. They can also... by Rick Golba | May 31, 2018 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Open Source
A data lake is “…a method of storing data within a system or repository, in its natural format, that facilitates the collocation of data in various schemata and structural forms…”1. Many companies find value in using a data lake but... by Rick Golba | Jan 30, 2017 | MySQL
Last month, MariaDB officially released MariaDB ColumnStore, their column store engine for MySQL. This post discusses what it is (and isn’t), why it matters and how you can approach a test of it. What is ColumnStore?ColumnStore is a storage engine that turns... by Rick Golba | Jan 6, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, MySQL
This post discusses archiving MySQL and MongoDB data and determining what, when and how to archive data.Many people store infrequently used data. This data is taking up storage space and might make your database slower than it could be. Archiving data can be a huge... by Rick Golba | Dec 14, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, MySQL
In this blog post, we’ll discuss the differences between row store and column store databases.Clients often ask us if they should or could be using columnar databases. For some applications, a columnar database is a great choice; for others, you should stick... by Rick Golba | Nov 11, 2016 | Cloud, MySQL
This blog post discusses the differences between the Amazon AWS service tiers.Many people want to move to an Amazon environment but are unsure what AWS service makes the most sense (EC2, RDS, Aurora). For database services, the tiering at Amazon starts with EC2,... 
