As we’ve been introducing Valkey/Redis these past few weeks, let’s depart from the norm and talk about a few “things you should not do” in Valkey.No passwordBy default, Valkey/Redis uses ...
https://www.percona.com/blog/valkey-redis-not-so-good-practices/
Selecting the appropriate database technology for your needs is crucial for ensuring compatibility with existing applications and infrastructure, optimizing application performance, and reducing ...
In a few of our previous blog posts, we’ve seen how to get started with Valkey/Redis by running a simple docker container and how to persist some configuration settings to disk. In this post, ...
https://www.percona.com/blog/valkey-redis-configuration-best-practices/
In our previous blogs, we discussed the basic data types available in Valkey/Redis: Strings, Lists, Sets, and Sorted Sets. In this blog, we introduce a more complex data type, Hashes.You can thin...
https://www.percona.com/blog/valkey-redis-the-hash-datatype/
In this Valkey blog post, I will demonstrate how we can set up a simple replication process among the Valkey nodes and then finally use some auto-failover mechanism with the help of the Valkey-se...
https://www.percona.com/blog/valkey-redis-replication-and-auto-failover-with-sentinel-service/
Table modifications are a routine task for database administrators. The blog post Using Percona Toolkit to Alter Database Tables Online: A Controlled Approach provides insights into the process o...
In our previous post, we welcomed Valkey (an open source fork of Redis) to the Percona family. We also learned how to get Valkey up and running using docker, along with understanding some of the ...
https://www.percona.com/blog/valkey-redis-sets-and-sorted-sets/
Have you ever read a news story about a major company experiencing a data breach that exposed millions of customer records? These breaches can be devastating, causing significant financial losses...
https://www.percona.com/blog/mysql-database-security-best-practices/
Coroot, an open source observability tool powered by eBPF, went generally available with version 1.0 last week. As this tool is cloud-native, we were curious to know how it can help troubleshoot ...
https://www.percona.com/blog/troubleshooting-postgresql-on-kubernetes-with-coroot/
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) has become a valuable tool for database professionals, providing comprehensive insights into database health and performance. A recent update (version 2.41...
https://www.percona.com/blog/mastering-database-monitoring-running-pmm-in-high-availability-mode/
Last week, we were assisting a client who needed to resolve an issue related to partitioned tables.Often, a table can include dozens or even hundreds of partitions. Unfortunately, some object-lev...
https://www.percona.com/blog/speed-up-repetitive-postgresql-statements-with-gexec/
Welcome Valkey to the Percona family! We are excited to have you join our team of MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB database experts.Hang on. What is Valkey? In short, Valkey is a fork of Redis whic...
Since Valkey (a fork of Redis) is around the corner, I thought to write a short blog post about some of the configuration parts, mainly discussing how to dynamically change certain settings and p...
MongoDB offers powerful features and scalability, but like any database system, it has security challenges that must be addressed to protect sensitive data as well as comply with regulatory stand...
https://www.percona.com/blog/securing-your-mongodb-database-essential-best-practices/
MySQL 8.4 has now been officially released, and this is a quick review of what is in the release notes. This is momentous as it is designated a Long-Term Support (LTS) release. Various 8.0 releas...
There are many cases where external connection poolers like pgBouncer become unavoidable despite the costs and complexities associated with them. PgBouncer is one of the most popular external con...
https://www.percona.com/blog/ldap-authentication-in-pgbouncer-through-pam/
For me, the Redis story starts with… Memcached. Back in the early 2000s, “Web 2.0” was being built following the aftermath of the dot-com crash. The open source LAMP (Linux-Apache-...
https://www.percona.com/blog/redis-valkey-and-perconas-ongoing-support-of-open-source/
The tech preview version of the pg_tde extension for PostgreSQL 16 was released on March 28th, with many improvements compared to our previous MVP release. In addition to lots of bug fixes, the n...
https://www.percona.com/blog/trying-out-the-postgresql-pg_tde-tech-preview-release/
Cloud-native databases are becoming the norm, and containerized databases are a common trend (see the report from Dynatrace and Figure 1). Kubernetes—the de facto standard for platform engineer...
https://www.percona.com/blog/performance-implications-of-running-databases-in-kubernetes/
Percona.connect, a series of free events hosted by Percona database performance experts, is coming to a city near you! This amazing learning opportunity spans six cities — across two continen...
https://www.percona.com/blog/bringing-percona-experts-to-a-city-near-you/