Introduction In software terminology, multitenancy is an architectural pattern which allows you to isolate customers even if they are using the same hardware or software components. Multitenancy has become even more attractive with the widespread adoption of cloud computing. A relational database system provides a hierarchy structure of objects which, typically, looks like this: catalog … Continue reading A beginner’s guide to database multitenancy →

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Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.

There have been two big pieces of news this week: the release of MongoDB 4.0 and the fact that Facebook has migrated the Messenger backend over to MyRocks.

MongoDB 4.0 is stable, with support for multi-document ACID transactions. I quite like the engineering chalk and talks videos on the transactions page. There are also improvements to help manage your MongoDB workloads in a Kubernetes cluster. MongoDB Atlas supports global clusters (geographically distributed databases, low latency writes, and data placement controls for regulatory …

Please join Percona’s Chief Evangelist Colin Charles on Thursday, June 28th, 2018, as he presents Securing Database Servers From External attacks at 7:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 10:00 AM EDT (UTC-4).

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A critical piece of your infrastructure is the database tier, yet people don’t pay enough attention to it judging by how many are bitten via poorly chosen defaults, or just a lack understanding of running a secure database tier. In this talk, I’ll focus on MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB, and cover external authentication, auditing, encryption, SSL, firewalls, replication, and more gems from over a decade of consulting in this space from Percona’s 4,000+ …

Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.

This is a short working week for me due to a family emergency. It caused me to skip speaking at DataOps.Barcelona and miss hanging out with the awesome of speakers and attendees. This is the first time I’ve missed a scheduled talk, and I received many messages about my absence. I am sure we will all meet again soon.

One of the talks I was planning to give at DataOps.Barcelona will be available as a Percona webinar next week: Securing Your Database Servers from External Attacks on Thursday, …

Serverless is a new buzzword in the database industry. Even though it gets tossed around often, there is some confusion about what it really means and how it really works. Serverless architectures rely on third-party Backend as a Service (BaaS) services. They can also include custom code that is run in managed, ephemeral containers on a Functions as a Service (FaaS) platform. In comparison to traditional Platform as a Service (PaaS) server architecture, where you pay a predetermined sum for your instances, serverless applications benefit from reduced costs of operations and lower complexity. They are also considered to be more agile, allowing for reduced engineering efforts.

In reality, there are still servers in a serverless architecture: they are just being used, managed, and maintained outside of the application. But isn’t that a lot like what cloud providers, such as Amazon RDS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, are already …

Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.

Shortly after the last dispatch, I jetted off for a spot of vacation (which really meant I was checking out the hype behind Blockchain with a database developer lens at the Blockchain Week NYC), and then some customer visits in Seoul, which explains the short hiatus. Here’s to making this more regular as the summer approaches.

I am about to embark on a fairly long trip, covering a few upcoming appearances: Lisbon for the Percona Engineering meeting, SouthEastLinuxFest in Charlotte, the …

So, after a whirlwind few days, Percona Live 2018 has been and gone. There was a great energy about the conference, and it was fantastic to meet so many open source database enthusiasts and supporters. A few things that I experienced:

• Your great willingness to share knowledge. It was a fantastic place to learn for those who have experience from a different field of technology. Almost everyone seemed to be very open and generous with their time.
• The “superstars” from our industry are not so scary. They are as willing to be open and generous with their experience and views as any of the other attendees, and equally as interested in making new discoveries.
• There aren’t many times you can sit down to a (community) dinner, to share food and anecdotes with people from USA, UK, Germany and Armenia at the same time. I thoroughly enjoyed the company, …

In this blog post on Percona Live 2018 sessions, we’ll talk with Jun Su, Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft about how Microsoft built MySQL, PostgreSQL and MariaDB for the cloud.

Offering MySQL, PostgreSQL and MariaDB database services in the cloud is different than doing so on-premise. Latency, connection redirection, optimal performance configuration are just a few challenges. In this session, Jun Su walked us through Microsoft’s journey to not only offer these popular OSS RDBMS in Microsoft Azure, but how they are implemented in Azure as a true DBaaS. We learned about Microsoft’s Azure Database Services platform architecture, and how these services are built to scale.

In Azure, database engine instances are services managed by the Azure Service Fabric, which is a platform for …

In this blog post on Percona Live 2018 sessions, we’ll talk with Christian Antognini, Senior Principal Consultant at Trivadis about the differences between MySQL and PostgreSQL query optimizers.

MySQL and PostgreSQL are two of the most popular open-source relational databases. Why would you pick one over the other to support your applications? Of course, it depends on the use case, environment and workload. To help with choosing between them, the people at Trivadis ran a comparison of their query optimizers. The aim of this session was to summarize the outcome of the comparison. Specifically, to point out optimizer-related strengths and weaknesses.

Christian spent a lot of time looking at the differences in indexing with regard to sorts, keys and partitioning, as well as joins and merges.

Both …

Announcing the Percona Live 2018 live stream.

This year at Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2018 we are live streaming the Keynote Talks on Day 1 and 2.

Percona is streaming the keynotes on Tuesday, April 24, 2018, and Wednesday, April 25, 2018 beginning at 9 AM PDT (both days). The keynote speakers include people from VividCortex, Upwork, Oracle, Netflix and many more. The keynote panels feature a cloud discussion and a cool technologies showcase.

Use the live stream link if you don’t want to miss a keynote, but can’t be at the main stage. Watch the …