Personal blog of Yzmir Ramirez

Your stack, Your rules. That’s our belief, and it’s non-negotiable.  We see the landscape changing. With the massive community migration from CentOS and CentOS Stream to Rocky Linux, we heard your requests loud and clear. You need a trusted, enterprise-ready database on your preferred platform. Our telemetry data, which we receive from you, also confirms […]

On some occasions, we realize the necessity of throttling the number of requests that MongoDB tries to execute per second, be it due to resource saturation remediation, machine change planning, or performance tests. The most direct way of doing this is by tuning the WiredTiger transaction ticket parameters. Applying this throttle provides more controlled and […]

In a previous article, Scalability for the Large-Scale: File Copy-Based Initial Sync for Percona Server for MongoDB, we presented some early benchmarks of the new File Copy-Based Initial Sync (FCBIS) available in Percona Server for MongoDB. Those first results already suggested significant improvements compared to the default Logical Initial Sync. In this post, we extend our […]

Today, Percona is proud to announce the release of OpenID Connect (OIDC) support for Percona Server for MongoDB, the source-available, enterprise-grade MongoDB-compatible database solution trusted by developers and IT leaders globally. With this new capability, Percona customers can integrate with leading identity providers (IdPs) like Okta, Microsoft Entra, Ping Identity, Keycloak, and others to simplify […]

On behalf of the entire Percona product team for MongoDB,  I’m excited to announce a significant enhancement to Percona Server for MongoDB: File Copy-Based Initial Sync (FCBIS). It is designed to accelerate your large-scale database deployment with a more efficient method for initial data synchronization. FCBIS reduces the time and resources required by the initial […]

MongoDB has always made it relatively easy to scale horizontally, but with version 8.0, the database takes a significant step forward. If you’re working with large datasets or high-throughput applications, some of the changes in this release will make your life a lot easier — and your architecture cleaner. Let’s take a look at some […]

Percona Server for MongoDB 8.0 has been available for over a month now. We covered the most important new MongoDB features in a previous blog post.  Earlier versions of MongoDB have a history of becoming slower with every major release, which is common with most databases. As more features are added, the code paths get […]

MongoDB has long been a favorite in the database community and is renowned for its flexibility and performance as a NoSQL solution. However, MongoDB Inc. chose to close-source the code of its Enterprise Advanced Server and, on top of that, reduced the value of the MongoDB Community Edition by no longer adding enterprise-grade features to […]

Data-at-rest encryption (also known as transparent data encryption or TDE) is a necessary mechanism for ensuring the security of a DBMS deployment. Upcoming releases of Percona Server for MongoDB extend that mechanism with the KMIP key state polling feature. In this technical post, I will describe how the feature works and how it helps reduce […]

Companies use specific database versions because they’re proven performers or because it’s hard to keep up with frequent releases. But lagging behind has some major issues. When it’s time to upgrade, is it better to update binaries through each major revision or skip versions? TL;DR: Upgrading a MongoDB cluster using backups and skipping versions is […]