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Starting with Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) 8.0, replication traffic encryption is enabled by default. That said, it’s common to find clusters running without TLS that suddenly need it: a new compliance requirement, an audit finding, a network segment that is no longer considered trusted.

PXC has a variable for exactly that case, pxc-encrypt-cluster-traffic, which hand...


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Percona Operator for PostgreSQL 3.1.0 takes on three things that decide whether a PostgreSQL platform passes review: is the data encrypted at rest, can it serve reads without straining the primary, and are the logs there when you need them. This release answers all three inside the custom resource, so none of them is a bolt-on you maintain yourself.

The ...


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If you have spent any time in the Postgres community, you already know the name pgstef. Stefan Fercot has spent years as one of the most visible advocates for pgBackRest, a familiar face at European Postgres conferences, and countless hallway conversations about backups, high availability, and everything in between. Now he is doing that work from inside Percona, and if you ar...


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Mongorewind: Rewind Your MongoDB Test Data Without Restoring a Backup

One day, my friend Martín told me about a problem he and his team were dealing with. 

Every time they needed to run a pre-production test, they had to restore a copy of the production database into their test cluster. That process alone takes about three hours because of the size of the databa...


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Percona Server for MySQL now ships with a fully open source OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication plugin, available starting with Percona Server for MySQL 8.4.11-11 and 9.7.2-2 (not yet released as of this writing). It allows a MySQL account to authenticate against any standards-compliant Identity Provider (IdP) instead of relying on a locally...


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