In this blog, I discuss a MongoDB administration checklist designed to help MySQL DBAs.

If you are MySQL DBA, starting MongoDB administration is not always an easy transition. Although most of the concepts and even implementation are similar, the commands are different. The following table outlines the typical MySQL concepts and DBA tasks (on the left) to corresponding MongoDB ones (on the right). If you happen to be a MongoDB DBA and want to learn MySQL administration, you can use the same table looking from right to left.

I’ve also created a webinar, MongoDB administration for MySQL DBA, that explains the above concepts. You can download the slides to use as a reference.

Don’t forget …

I have a few upcoming speaking engagements in June 2016:

• Nerdear.la – June 9-10 2016 – Buenos Aires, Argentina – never been to this event but MariaDB Corporation are sponsors and I’m quite excited to be back in Buenos Aires. I’m going to talk about the MySQL ecosystem in 2016.
• SouthEast LinuxFest – June 10-12 2016 – Charlotte, NC, USA – I have a few talks here, a bit bummed that I’m going to be missing the speaker dinner, but I expect this to be another great year. Learn about MariaDB Server/MySQL Security Essentials, the MySQL ecosystem in 2016, and about distributions from the view of a package.
• NYC MySQL Meetup – June 27 2016 – New York, USA – I’m …

Please join Alexander Rubin, Percona Principal Consultant, for his webinar MongoDB administration for MySQL DBA on Thursday, May 19 at 10 am PDT (UTC-7).

If you are a MySQL DBA and want to learn MongoDB quickly – this webinar is for you. MySQL and MongoDB share similar concepts so it will not be hard to get up to speed with MongoDB.

In this talk I will explain the following MongoDB administration concepts:

• Day to day operations for MongoDB
• Storage engines and differences with MySQL storage engines
• Databases, collections and documents
• Replication in MongoDB and the difference with MySQL replication
• Sharding in MongoDB
…

This blog post will discuss creating geo-enabled applications with MongoDB, GeoJSON and MySQL.

Introduction

Recently I published a blog post about the new GIS features in MySQL 5.7. Today I’ve looked into how to use MongoDB (I’ve tested with 3.0 and 3.2, with 3.2 being much faster) for the same purpose. I will also talk about GIS in MySQL and MongoDB at Percona Live next week (together with my colleague …

Percona is pleased to announce the release of Percona Server for MongoDB 3.0.9-1.4 on March 11, 2016. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories.

Percona Server for MongoDB is an enhanced, open source, fully compatible, highly scalable, zero-maintenance downtime database supporting the MongoDB v3.0 protocol and drivers. Based on MongoDB 3.0.9, it extends MongoDB with MongoRocks and PerconaFT storage engines, as well as features …

VividCortex is designed to offer its users as much access and visibility into their database systems as possible. With that in mind, we're excited to let all of our MongoDB users know that VividCortex is capable of capturing, displaying, and navigating metrics and charts produced in MongoDB's powerful WiredTiger storage engine. 

Beginning with MongoDB version 3.0, users will have the option of selecting one of two storage engines: the default MMAPv1 engine, as used in prior MongoDB releases; or the new WiredTiger engine. As MongoDB's site explains,

For many applications, WiredTiger's more granular concurrency control and native compression will provide significant benefits in the areas of lower storage costs, greater …

We were just leafing through the 2015 edition of The DZone Guide to Database and Persistence Management, and we noticed some interesting stats in the guide's included survey, about which we'd like to share some observations. The survey is one of the ebook's central features, and it includes feedback from over 800 IT Professionals, with 63% of those respondents coming from companies with over 100 employees and 69% with over 10 years of experience -- they represent a significant and important cross-section of our industry.

These kinds of reports can be enlightening, as they offer the opportunity to take some of our principles and pin them to the hard facts and numbers of actual database activity, in the field. 

In a section titled "One Type of Database is Usually Not Enough," the report reveals that it's stadard …

In the MySQL world, we’re used to playing in the MySQL Sandbox. It allows us to deploy a testing replication environment in seconds, without a great deal of effort or navigating multiple virtual machines. It is a tool that we couldn’t live without in Support.

In this post I am going to walk through the different ways we have to deploy a MongoDB replica/sharding set test in a similar way. It is important to mention that this is not intended for production, but to be used for troubleshooting, learning or just playing around with replication.

Replica Set regression test’s diagnostic commands

MongoDB includes a .js that allows us to deploy a replication set from the MongoDB’s shell. Just run the following:

# mongo --nodb …

Percona invites you to attend a webinar Wednesday, January 27th, with CEO Peter Zaitsev: Compression In Open Source Databases. Register now!

Data growth has been tremendous in the last decade and shows no signs of stopping. To deal with this trend database technologies have implemented a number of approaches, and data compression is by far the most common and important. Compression in open source databases is complicated, and there are a lot of different approaches – each with their own implications.

In this talk we will perform a survey of compression in some of the most popular open source database engines including: Innodb, TokuDB, MongoDB, WiredTiger, RocksDB, and PostgreSQL.

Important information: …

The Percona Live Data Performance Conference 2016 is rapidly approaching, and we’re looking forward to providing an outstanding experience April 18-21 for all whom attend.

Percona Live is the premier event for the rich and diverse open source community and businesses that thrive in the MySQL and NoSQL marketplaces. Attendees include DBAs, sysadmins, developers, architects, CTOs, and CEOs representing organizations from industry giants such as Oracle to start-ups. Vendors increasingly rely on the conference as a major opportunity to connect with potential high-value customers from around the world.

Below are some highlights for the upcoming conference regarding the conference schedule, Tutorial sessions, Birds of a Feather talks, and Lightning talks.

Conference Schedule

Percona Live is packed with engaging sessions, helpful …