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 connection poolers for PostgreSQL. It is thin and lightweight, so it doesn’t have built-in authentication features like LDAP, which is essential for many enterprises....
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-MySQL-PHP/Perl/Python) stack was all the rage. We needed to scale fast but also very efficiently, and caching became one of the core technologies to achieve […]
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 new release supports multi-tenancy and key rotation with a simplified configuration mechanism. Note that the Tech Preview release is not recommended for […]
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 engineers—and operators simplify database deployment and management. But what are the performance implications of running databases in Kubernetes? To answer this question,...
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 continents — and includes educational sessions, customer testimonials, networking activities, and more. Don’t miss your chance to talk with technical evangelists, MySQL,...
Apples or oranges?Tea or coffee?Books or eBooks?Each of these comparisons has very similar features and serves many of the same purposes, but in the end, they are different choices people make. Do you know what else belongs on this list?MariaDB or MySQL?It’s time we discuss the age-old debate of MariaDB versus MySQL and see if […]
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