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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 [...]
February 3, 2025
MongoDB – Converting Replica Set to Standalone
This post was originally published in January 2022 and was updated in February 2025. One of the reasons for using [...]
February 2, 2025
MongoDB Indexes Explained: A Comprehensive Guide to Better MongoDB Performance
This blog was originally published in March 2021 and was updated in February 2025. Good intentions can sometimes end up [...]
February 1, 2025
How to Generate an Ansible Inventory with Terraform
This post was originally published in June 2021 and was updated in February 2025. Creating and maintaining Ansible inventory files [...]
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 [...]
September 26, 2024
Dealing with a ‘DatabaseVersion.timestamp’ Error After a MongoDB Upgrade
Recently, one of our customers reported a problem after upgrading a sharded cluster from MongoDB 5.0 to 6.0. The upgrade [...]
September 12, 2024
Simplify User Management with Percona Operator for MongoDB
Managing database users within complex CICD pipelines and GitOps workflows has long been a challenge for MongoDB deployments. With Percona [...]
September 11, 2024
MongoDB: High Availability Topology for a Multi-Region Setting
MongoDB high availability is essential to ensure reliability, customer satisfaction, and business resilience in an increasingly interconnected and always-on digital [...]