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Jan WieremjewiczIf you’re managing a PostgreSQL database and handling sensitive data or PII, the answer is simple: You need data-at-rest encryption. This isn’t just a “nice-to-have” feature—it’s often a legal or regulatory requirement. Compliance auditors, security officers, and privacy-conscious customers all expect it. But is this enough? We think NO! The reality check: No native TDE […]
TL;DR Kubernetes was built for stateless apps, but as more stateful applications (like databases) run on it, operators include quite heavy implementations to Kubernetes workload management API (such as StatefulSets) deficits. While creating custom methods allows flexibility and faster time to market, it also leads to inconsistency and complexity. In this blog, I want to […]
When using a tool for a while, one often becomes patriotic towards it. With your investment, such as your work, you’re building up experience and starting to care more about the tool you use. How good it is, how it’s perceived by others. It’s an interesting process. Being strongly involved with PostgreSQL, it was interesting […]
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 4.4 EOL significant? In […]
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 relatives when asked what is Product Management all about. With a tool like […]
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 adopt upgrade strategies in line with the PostgreSQL Community timelines. According […]
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. This requirement does not always pair with the latest and greatest […]
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 maintaining the same resilience towards QA was something we aimed for. It looks like we succeeded, and […]
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 knew that our customers needed to back up: More data Faster Using existing […]
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 soon going to be […]
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 — improvements to master key rotation With the […]
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 container images for Percona Server for MongoDB 6. While it’s […]
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 and 11, and Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, and 22.04 […]
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 and recommend PostgreSQL community timelines. There won’t be any public builds available from both community and […]
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, are not enough. The thing we hear almost every time is that they still need […]
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 limited with the SSPL license of the upstream code. With PSMDB, users receive […]
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 offers Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) — a free to use and fully open source […]
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 development anywhere from banking to social media. Unfortunately, after MongoDB Inc.’s IPO in 2017, they chose an aggressive path […]