The upcoming Percona Operator for PostgreSQL v2.6.0 release introduces support for PostgreSQL 17, which opens exciting possibilities for data security. Since pg_tde comes pre-installed in Percona’s official PostgreSQL 17 images, this release presents an excellent opportunity to implement Transparent Data Encryption in your Kubernetes-deployed databases. Let’s look at how to configure and use pg_tde with […]
07
2025
Encrypt PostgreSQL Data at Rest on Kubernetes
04
2025
MongoDB 8.0 Performance; Does It Live Up to the Hype?
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 […]
21
2025
Navigating MongoDB Licensing Challenges: Why Percona is a Game-Changer
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 […]
16
2025
Percona Everest: An Open Source Solution for MongoDB Sharding and Backups
The increase of cloud-native technologies is transforming how we manage databases. Since I stepped into the world of databases and cloud-native technologies, I have encountered several initiatives aimed at developing and optimizing database operations in the cloud, and Kubernetes plays a crucial role in this shift through Operators. While the core concepts and techniques of […]
10
2025
Prevent Encryption Key Loss When Using Percona Server for MongoDB with HashiCorp’s Vault
When setting up data-at-rest encryption (also known as transparent data encryption) in Percona Server for MongoDB, one has three options for storing a master encryption key: Encryption key file on a filesystem, KMIP server, HashiCorp’s Vault. An encryption key file is only suitable for testing due to its lack of proper security. One can read […]
08
2025
Attaching a Percona Monitoring and Management Graph Image Along with an Alerting Notification
This article will be helpful if you use the Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) instance and alert notifications, as it is nice to capture the image of the graph when you receive the alert. We will see how to capture and attach the image of the graph when receiving the alert notification (email, telegram, Slack, […]
20
2024
MySQL Transaction ERROR 1412 and Isolation Levels
This blog post explains the cause of “ERROR 1412 (HY000): Table definition has changed, please retry transaction” with the specific Isolation level settings. Background As per the MySQL documentation, this error should occur for “operations that make a temporary copy of the original table and delete the original table when the temporary copy is built.” […]
19
2024
Percona XtraBackup 101: Decompress and Decrypt or Decrypt and Decompress?
This blog is not intended to offer anything extraordinary; instead, consider it an anecdote, a lesson, or simply a proper way of doing things without the need to run a test when in doubt. That said, I must emphasize that, as always, testing everything before deploying to production is essential. Let’s dive into the story: […]
19
2024
Percona Wins 2024 Digital Innovator Award from Intellyx
As organizations turn to the cloud for more and more products and services, many are discovering that the majority of these offerings come with hidden, yet significant, costs. This is especially true in the database space, where the increasing popularity of public database-as-a-service (DBaaS) solutions has left many organizations grappling with the unforeseen consequences of […]
17
2024
Percona Server for MongoDB 8.0: The Most Performant Ever
MongoDB Community Edition 8.0 has been available since October. At Percona, we took the time to examine this release carefully, check performance, and guarantee it works perfectly, stand-alone, and with other tools like Percona Backup for MongoDB and Percona Monitoring and Management. Today, we are excited to announce the General Availability of Percona Server for […]