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June 24, 2025
Open Wins Again II: From Fork to Force
Forks aren’t just a technical event. We can look at them as philosophical ruptures, and the open source world isn’t [...]
June 13, 2025
Percona Earns Kubernetes Certified Services Provider Status for All Three Major Open Source Databases
As a member of the Kubernetes Certified Services Provider program, Percona is now part of a select, “pre-qualified tier of [...]
March 18, 2025
The Percona Perspective: A Vision for the Future of Open Source Databases in the Age of AI
From punch cards to containerization, database technologies have changed tremendously over the years. And there has been no shortage of [...]
March 3, 2025
Why Companies Are Saying No to Proprietary Software, Including MongoDB
Is your organization’s innovation being constrained by proprietary software restrictions? You’re not alone—these limitations are increasingly at odds with enterprise [...]
February 2, 2025
What is PostgreSQL? Everything You Need to Know
This blog was originally published in February of 2023 and updated in February 2025. You’ve probably heard PostgreSQL mentioned in [...]
December 13, 2024
Software Licensing and Open Source: Why Definitions Matter
Over the last few years, there have been many calls to evolve the Open Source Definition (OSD) to fit the [...]
November 12, 2024
Alternatives to Cloud DBaaS: What to Look For
Originally published on The New Stack. Building a flexible cloud strategy means making decisions that align with operational efficiency, cost [...]
November 6, 2024
An Elephant in the Cluster: Making PostgreSQL Feel at Home on Kubernetes
TL;DR Kubernetes was built for stateless apps, but as more stateful applications (like databases) run on it, operators include quite [...]
October 28, 2024
Abandonware in Popular Open Source Databases
Inspired by this comment in the Hacker News discussion, I posted polls on my LinkedIn network about the tendency (or [...]
October 24, 2024
Redis Users Want a Change
Originally published on The New Stack. Open source Valkey is emerging as a top contender for the 75% of companies [...]
October 23, 2024
Open Source and Flawed Foundations
I have always been a big advocate of “Foundation”-run open source projects as being better compared to single-vendor projects, where [...]
September 17, 2024
MySQL 8.0 vs. 5.7: Are the Newer Versions More Problematic?
There has been much discussion recently about the stability and performance of the latest MySQL releases. Many database professionals are [...]
September 9, 2024
MongoDB Performance Regression Benchmarking and the Truth Behind Journaling
I have always been wondering about performance regression when upgrading in MongoDB. From MongoDB v3.6, despite continuous improvement in the [...]
September 4, 2024
Percona In-Product Telemetry: Updates, Findings, and News
This article is, in fact, two topics merged into one publication. Both are related to anonymous statistical data collection within [...]
September 3, 2024
What are Kubernetes Pods? A Deep Dive
You might have driven a car, but have you ever wondered how the engine works? Similarly if you have used [...]
June 17, 2024
Can Oracle Save MySQL?
I got quite a response to my article on whether Oracle is Killing MySQL, including a couple of great write-ups [...]
June 13, 2024
Sakila, Where Are You Going?
At Percona, we monitor our users’ needs and try to accommodate them. One aspect we monitor is the MySQL version [...]
June 10, 2024
Is Oracle Finally Killing MySQL?
Some 15 years ago, when Oracle acquired Sun, and hence MySQL, there was a lot of talk on the internet [...]
May 23, 2024
Beyond Cloud: The Impact of AI Agents on Platform Engineering
In November 2023, Bill Gates wrote an article about how AI would change the way we interact with computers and personal [...]
May 22, 2024
Are Your Backups Able to Pass the Unisuper Test?
You may have heard about Unisuper’s problem last week; see here. The $135 billion dollar company’s data was wiped off [...]