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April 23, 2025
Does FCV Have Any Impact on MongoDB Performance?
It is generally known and established that different database versions provide different sets of features and performance rates. Along with [...]
April 22, 2025
Behind the Scenes: How Percona Support Diagnosed a MongoDB FTDC Freeze
One of our customers recently reported that MongoDB’s diagnostic metrics—collected via FTDC (Full-Time Diagnostic Data Capture)—had stopped updating. As a [...]
April 14, 2025
MongoDB Pricing Explained: What You’re Really Paying For
If you’re using MongoDB, whether it’s the Community Edition, Enterprise Advanced, or Atlas, you’ve probably asked yourself at some point: [...]
March 26, 2025
Enhancing Keyhole: Pulling More Metrics from MongoDB’s FTDC
Everyone knows that MongoDB has FTDC (Full-Time Diagnostic Data Capture), which helps MongoDB engineers analyze server behavior, tune parameters, and [...]
March 19, 2025
MongoDB Atlas On-Premise: Challenges and Flexible Alternatives
If you’re running enterprise applications, you might be facing a common dilemma: cloud solutions offer great features, but regulatory constraints [...]
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 18, 2025
Alternatives to MongoDB Atlas: More Control, Lower Costs
At first glance, MongoDB Atlas seems like the perfect solution—an easy-to-use, fully managed cloud database that takes the hassle out [...]
February 4, 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 [...]
January 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 [...]
January 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 [...]
January 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 [...]
January 3, 2025
Debugging a Binary Data Oplog Replay Issue in MongoDB
This blog post follows up on my previous one, How to Upgrade MongoDB Using Backups Through Many Major Versions, in [...]
December 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, [...]
December 2, 2024
Checking Index Consistency on a Sharded Cluster in MongoDB
Inconsistent index distribution across shards in a MongoDB sharded cluster is more common than you think, and it occurs because [...]
October 30, 2024
Percona Backup for MongoDB and Disk Snapshots in Amazon AWS – Part 2
Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) supports snapshot-based physical backups. This is made possible by the backup cursor functionality present in [...]
October 21, 2024
Percona Backup for MongoDB and Disk Snapshots in Amazon AWS
We recently covered the use case of Percona Backup for MongoDB and Disk Snapshots in Google Cloud Platform; now it’s time [...]
October 15, 2024
Percona Backup for MongoDB and Disk Snapshots in Google Cloud Platform – Part 2
Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) supports snapshot-based physical backups. This is made possible by the backup cursor functionality present in [...]
October 8, 2024
Unlocking the Power of Cloud Snapshots: Backup and Restore Your MongoDB Clusters on Kubernetes
There are various ways to backup and restore Percona Server for MongoDB clusters when you run them on Kubernetes. Percona [...]
October 2, 2024
Percona Backup for MongoDB and Disk Snapshots in Google Cloud Platform
Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) supports snapshot-based physical backups. This is made possible by the backup cursor functionality present in [...]
September 30, 2024
MongoDB: New Balancer Policy and Automerger
MongoDB provides scalability and high availability at ease. If you already have a sharded cluster, you know for sure what [...]