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Percona Operator for MySQL 1.2.0: Cross-Site Replication, Encrypted Backups, and Automatic Storage Scaling
Percona Operator for MySQL 1.2.0 is out, and it closes three gaps that platform teams hit once a MySQL deployment grows past a single cluster. Picture a fleet that…
Comparing Migration Methods from the Crunchy Data PostgreSQL Operator to the Percona Operator for PostgreSQL
Migrating a production PostgreSQL database on Kubernetes is not only about moving data from one operator to another. It is also about choosing the right trade-off between downtime, operational complexity,…
TAF 3.0 — Results Backend With Automated Performance Change Detection
TAF 3.0 introduces the new TAF Results Backend, a structured results database and parser pipeline that delivers fully automated performance change detection. … Continue reading “TAF 3.0 — Results Backend…
MariaDB Server Plugins: disabled functions
During the last MariaDB Foundation Board Meeting (24 June 2026), Barry shared how it can be difficult to deploy an upgrade immediately and that they sometimes have to wait for…
Cross-site Disaster Recovery with Percona Operator for MySQL
A MySQL InnoDB Cluster provides high availability for a single database cluster using Group Replication. This works well for node failures inside the cluster, but disaster recovery usually requires another…
MariaDB 13.1 Feature in Focus: DENY / Negative Grants
MariaDB 13.1 Preview is full of nice things. Some are immediately visible to developers, like the new JSON operators. Some are very useful to DBAs, such as configuration validation. ……
Continuent joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor
MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome Continuent as a new Silver Sponsor. Continuent develops solutions for organizations running business-critical applications on MariaDB and other MySQL-compatible databases. … Continue reading “Continuent…
Lowering the Barrier for MariaDB Plugin Development: Plugins in More Languages
MariaDB Server has long supported a flexible plugin architecture. Plugins allow developers to extend server functionality in areas such as data types, auditing, storage engines, information schema tables, and more.…
Nextcloud renews its Silver sponsorship of MariaDB Foundation
MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce that Nextcloud has renewed its Silver sponsorship for another year. Nextcloud and MariaDB are widely used together by organisations that want greater control over…
Still on MySQL 5.7 or 8.0? Those high-severity CVE fixes are covered
Upstream MySQL published an out-of-schedule release this week with two high-severity CVE fixes. If you’re running Percona Server for MySQL 5.7 or 8.0 under Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS), the program…
PostgreSQL Autovacuum Internals and Benchmark
PostgreSQL Autovacuum Internals and Benchmark Introduction Vacuum, or more precisely autovacuum, is the most important automatic maintenance task in PostgreSQL. It is key for performance, but also for long-term database…
Building a Modern Analytics Stack Around ClickHouse
Historically, relational databases did double duty. The same PostgreSQL / MySQL instance that handled your application’s writes also answered your business questions. A well-indexed schema, a few GROUP BY reports,…
Community Docker Images: keeping the operator open without a vendor registry lock-in
PostgreSQL community images address a real gap in how a Kubernetes database operator earns your trust. Running a database operator on Kubernetes means trusting two things: the code, and the container…
Debugging with Ephemeral Containers
Debugging applications in Kubernetes can be tricky. Containers are designed to be small, immutable, and purpose-built. That is great for production, but not always ideal when something breaks. Many production…
Why I haven’t run my databases on Kubernetes
A few years ago, if there was a discussion on “Should we run databases on Kubernetes?”, there were more people saying no than yes. One of the common answers was,…