Some 15 years ago, when Oracle acquired Sun, and hence MySQL, there was a lot of talk on the internet over when Oracle was going to “Kill MySQL”.  Multiple theories were circled around, ranging from killing MySQL altogether, so there is less competition to proprietary Oracle, or just killing it as an open source project, […]

Keeping Your Data Safe: An Introduction to Data-at-Rest Encryption in Percona XtraDB Cluster.Data breaches are a major concern today. Whether you’re a business owner or value your privacy, the thought of your sensitive information being exposed is unsettling. Fortunately, data-at-rest encryption can help.Think of it as a sophisticated lock that scrambles...

The End-of-Support date for CentOS 7 and Debian 10 is coming soon. According to their respective release life cycles, the EOL date for both systems is June 30th, 2024. This announcement has some implications for support for Percona software running on these operating systems.So, we will no longer produce new packages and binary builds for […]

There are quite a number of methods these days for installing Patroni. I want to discuss the next step, which is how to start tuning a running system.The manner of updating a running Postgres server typically involves editing the standard Postgres files: postgresql.conf postgresql.auto.conf pg_hba.conf Working with a Patroni HA cluster, one has the...

Downsampling is the process by which we can selectively prune (discard, summarize, or recalculate) data from a series of samples in order to decrease how much storage is consumed. This has the downside of reducing the accuracy of the data, but has the great benefit of allowing us to store data from a wider sampling […]

MongoDB’s flexibility and speed make it a popular database choice, but as your data grows, managing and querying massive datasets can become challenging. This is where partitioning, also known as sharding, comes to the rescue.Partitioning strategically divides your data collection into smaller, more manageable chunks. This technique provides significant...