Iterative workloads caught vendors off guard, but requirements for a clean-slate solution remain unclear

TL;DR Percona Server for MySQL 9.7.2-2 now supports DISTANCE() for vector similarity scoring directly in SQL (COSINE, EUCLIDEAN, MANHATTAN, DOT metrics). This is the compute primitive you need to rank...

A database migration can be syntactically correct and still be a poor release candidate. A regular index build can block writes, an ALTER TABLE may wait behind a conflicting lock or hold a strong lock...

A backup is only useful if it can be restored. This lab seeds a source database, takes a logical archive, deliberately deletes the source database, restores into a clean target, and checks the recover...

Evaluating LLM Models for DBA Tasks Large language models are increasingly capable of performing practical systems-administration tasks. I wanted to understand how well they could handle something mor...

LeadByte migrated from AWS to Percona, gaining a more cost-effective, high-performance database environment without sacrificing reliability or scalability.

Percona Server for MongoDB 8.3 is available today as a Technical Preview. It is not for production. It is for your lab, your staging cluster, and your benchmark harness – and for sharing with us what ...