Percona

JANUARY 16, 2025

The increase of cloud-native technologies is transforming how we manage databases. Since I stepped into the world of databases and cloud-native technologies, I have encountered several initiatives aimed at developing and optimizing database operations in the cloud, and Kubernetes plays a crucial role in this shift through Operators.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2022

The growing popularity of open source software presents new risks associated with vulnerable libraries. To handle the increasing complexity of open source software, software composition analysis (SCA) has become an important tool. As part of the process, SCA provides a full analysis of open source project health metrics.

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Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Some time ago Federico Toledo published Performance Testing with Open Source Tools- Busting The Myths. Otherwise we wouldn’t see so many commercial tools built on the top of open source including BlazeMeter (it is ironic that the article is posted on the BlazeMeter site), Flood, and OctoPerf.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2021

These are just a few of the open-source technologies you may encounter as you research observability solutions for managing complex multicloud IT environments and the services that run on them. Of these open-source observability tools, one stands out. Then, Google made the OpenCensus project open source in 2018.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 28, 2020

If you’re hosting your databases in the cloud, choosing the right cloud service provider is a significant decision to make for your long-term hosting costs. Over the last few weeks, we have been inundated with requests from SMB customers looking to improve the ROI on their database hosting. MongoDB® Database. EC2 instances.

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Due to its versatility for storing information in both structured and unstructured formats, PostgreSQL is the fourth most used standard in modern database management systems (DBMS) worldwide 1. To conclude, GUIs are a vital addition to ease the lives of database users and developers.

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Percona

APRIL 28, 2023

We are a company of open source proponents. We’re also dedicated and active participants in the global open source community. Both open source and proprietary options have advantages. With open source database software , anyone in the general public can access the source code, read it, and modify it.

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DZone

JUNE 11, 2020

It's challenging to troubleshoot issues in a distributed database because the information about the system is scattered in different machines. TiDB is an open-source, distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. Before version 4.0, Before version 4.0,

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Database Open Source Analytics Architecture 246

Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2021

Dynatrace’s OneAgent automatically captures PurePaths and analyzes transactions end-to-end across every tier of your application technology stack with no code changes, from the browser all the way down to the code and database level. The post Monitoring-as-code through Dynatrace’s Open-Source Initiative appeared first on Dynatrace blog.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 26, 2020

Microsoft Azure is one of the most popular cloud providers in the world, and a natural fit for database hosting on applications leveraging Microsoft across their infrastructure. MySQL is the number one open source database that’s commonly hosted through Azure instances. We measure latency in ms 95th percentile latency.

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 14, 2020

October 14, 2020 – ScaleGrid, a leading Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) provider, has just announced the launch of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) hosting through their fully managed DBaaS plans. Google Cloud Platform is the second most popular cloud provider for open source database hosting according to the 2019 Open Source Database Report.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 10, 2025

A graphical user interface (GUI) helps simplify how you interact with your MySQL databases. Whether youre a developer, database administrator, or data analyst, a good GUI can make everyday tasks faster, clearer, and less error-prone. Thats where MySQL GUIs come in. Lets dive into the top picks.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 12, 2023

Netflix has open-sourced Escrow Buddy, which helps Security and IT teams ensure they have valid FileVault recovery keys for all their Macs in MDM. To be a client systems engineer is to take joy in small endpoint automations that make your fellow employees’ day a little better. We call this new tool Escrow Buddy.

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Percona

OCTOBER 23, 2024

I have always been a big advocate of “Foundation”-run open source projects as being better compared to single-vendor projects, where there is a risk of a vendor unilaterally changing licenses or taking other “hostile” steps towards project users and the community and their reliance on the project’s open source nature.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

The strongest Kubernetes growth areas are security, databases, and CI/CD technologies. Open-source software drives a vibrant Kubernetes ecosystem. Strongest Kubernetes growth areas are security, databases, and CI/CD technologies. Open source software drives a vibrant Kubernetes ecosystem.

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Percona

AUGUST 5, 2024

Generative AI is top of mind for many engineers. The questions of how it can be applied to solve business problems and boost productivity are still up in the air. Recently I wrote a blog post about the impact of AI on platform engineers, where I talked about various AI Agents and how they can […]

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Open Source Database Engineering Software 120

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

As cloud applications have become the norm, the databases that power these applications are now typically run as managed services by cloud providers. Optimize database performance. Small changes in a database can have an enormous impact on overall application performance. Log monitoring beyond cloud platform databases.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Percona is dedicated to open source software. But recently, open source software has come under attack. Once open source software is being locked away by changing licenses and code that you depended on. Before open source was available, there was little to no interoperability between computer systems.

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Percona

APRIL 30, 2024

The open source LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP/Perl/Python) stack was all the rage. 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.

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Open Source Cache Efficiency Technology 124

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Oracle Database is a commercial, proprietary multi-model database management system produced by Oracle Corporation, and the largest relational database management system (RDBMS) in the world. While Oracle remains the #1 database on the market, its popularity has steadily declined by over 18% since 2013. Compare Costs.

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Scalegrid

JUNE 4, 2020

ScaleGrid is a fully managed DBaaS that supports MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis™, along with additional support for MongoDB® database and Greenplum® database. Along with many popular cloud providers, DigitalOcean also provides a Managed Databases service. So, which database service is right for your application? Single Node.

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Database Latency Benchmarking Performance 230

Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

PostgreSQL graphical user interface (GUI) tools help these open source database users to manage, manipulate, and visualize their data. PostgreSQL is the fourth most popular database management system in the world, and heavily used in all sizes of applications from small to large. Why Use a GUI Tool?

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Redis , short for Remote Dictionary Server, is a BSD-licensed, open-source in-memory key-value data structure store written in C language by Salvatore Sanfillipo and was first released on May 10, 2009. Depending on how it is configured, Redis can act like a database, a cache or a message broker.

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Percona

AUGUST 7, 2024

In the first part of this series, we built a basic AI-powered database agent. Now, it’s time to make a minimal viable product out of it. We’ll refine our scripts, add support for MySQL, incorporate OpenAI, and wrap everything in a user-friendly interface with Docker for easy deployment.

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Percona

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Today’s businesses face two major challenges when it comes to managing databases: vendor lock-in of public cloud providers and the inherent complexity of running and managing databases. Furthermore, managing a myriad of databases across multiple environments poses a daunting task, requiring significant effort and resources.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Metric definitions are often scattered across various databases, documentation sites, and code repositories, making it difficult for analysts and data scientists to find reliable information quickly. DJ stands out as an open source solution that is actively developed and stress-tested at Netflix.

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DZone

MARCH 20, 2023

Introduction to HertzBeat HertzBeat is an open source, easy-to-use and friendly real-time monitoring system that does not require Agent and has powerful custom monitoring capabilities. Integrate monitoring-alarm-notification , support monitoring of application services, databases, operating systems, middleware, cloud-native, etc.,

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Open Source Monitoring Operating System Database 130

Scalegrid

JUNE 22, 2020

MySQL is the all-time number one open source database in the world, and a staple in RDBMS space. MySQL on DigitalOcean is a natural fit, but what’s the best way to deploy your cloud database? higher throughput over DigitalOcean Managed Databases across all thread counts. At a glance – TLDR. Compare Latency.

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Database Benchmarking Latency Performance 217

Percona

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The strategic adoption of different database technologies can make or break a company’s success and long-term viability.

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Open Source Database Innovation Technology 111

DZone

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In this article, I’m going to demonstrate how you can migrate a comprehensive web application from MySQL to YugabyteDB using the open-source data migration engine YugabyteDB Voyager. Nowadays, many people migrate their applications from traditional, single-server relational databases to distributed database clusters.

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Percona

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Over the last few years, there have been many calls to evolve the Open Source Definition (OSD) to fit the modern world. Some would like to seenoncompetitive licenses such as the Server Side Public License (SSPL) or Elastic License considered open source.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 13, 2025

OpenTelemetry Astronomy Shop is a demo application created by the OpenTelemetry community to showcase the features and capabilities of the popular open-source OpenTelemetry observability standard. Many companies are interested in experimenting with OpenTelemetry but have struggled with the lack of a good reference implementation.

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Open Source Metrics Architecture Infrastructure 147

DZone

JUNE 15, 2023

As one of the most popular open-source Kubernetes monitoring solutions, Prometheus leverages a multidimensional data model of time-stamped metric data and labels. It stores the metrics in a time-series database and provides the powerful PromQL query language for efficient analysis and data visualization.

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Open Source Metrics Efficiency Architecture 298

Percona

MARCH 28, 2025

PostgreSQL is, without a doubt, one of the most popular open source databases in the world. PostgreSQL isnt just a database; its an ecosystem of extensions that can transform it to tackle any upcoming challenges. Well, there are many reasons, but if I had to pick just one, I’d say its extensibility.

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Percona

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Open source Valkey is emerging as a top contender for the 75% of companies concerned about Redis’ licensing change, finds Percona research. Originally published on The New Stack. The key-value store landscape is experiencing a shake-up, as Redis’ recent licensing changes have driven users to search for alternatives.

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Open Source Database 120

Percona

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

There is a new controversy in the Linkerd community with reports that many Linkerd users will now need to pay to run the software, and it will only be available under a proprietary license. I do not think this is entirely correct. Here are my thoughts on this topic.Linkerd is a CNCF project, where Buoyant […]

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Open Source Availability Software Software 110

Percona

MARCH 18, 2025

From punch cards to containerization, database technologies have changed tremendously over the years. And there has been no shortage of watershed moments along the way. However, we believe the emergence of advanced AI may very well be the most significant one yet. Percona certainly isnt alone in that belief.

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