by revathisreem | Dec 23, 2025 | Databases, General, KnowledgeBase, MongoDB
Data consistency in MongoDB often looks simple—until a failover happens during peak traffic, dashboards disagree with backend state, or “successful” writes quietly disappear. Most teams don’t hit these problems in development. They hit them in production, under...
by revathisreem | Nov 25, 2025 | Databases, General, KnowledgeBase, MongoDB
There’s something that always surprises me about MongoDB performance tuning:No matter how many clusters we help, no matter the industry — fintech, gaming, e-commerce, IoT — the same mistakes creep in again and again. And the funny thing is, they rarely come from...
by Nagarajan Ponnusamy | Nov 18, 2025 | Databases, KnowledgeBase, MySQL
Migrating between MySQL and MariaDB used to be described as a “drop-in replacement.”But any DBA who has managed real production workloads knows that this is no longer true—especially with the modern community versions MySQL 8.4 LTS and MariaDB 11.4 LTS. It’s a common...
by Karthickraja durairaj | Nov 4, 2025 | Automation, General, KnowledgeBase
Introduction In the world of database observability, timing is everything — literally. Recently, we ran into a puzzling issue while managing MySQL monitoring in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM). Out of five database servers (server1 through server4), one server...
by revathisreem | Oct 22, 2025 | Databases, General, KnowledgeBase, MongoDB
MongoDB’s document-based, schema-flexible architecture offers unparalleled agility to developers. Unlike traditional relational databases, it doesn’t enforce rigid schemas at the database layer — allowing rapid iteration and diverse data structures. However, for...
by Nagarajan Ponnusamy | Oct 14, 2025 | Databases, General, KnowledgeBase
Have you ever wished your database could show not just the current state of your data, but also how it looked yesterday, last month, or even a year ago?MariaDB’s temporal tables make that possible — letting you time-travel through your data effortlessly. In this post,...
