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Why Companies Are Saying No to Proprietary Software, Including MongoDB
Is your organization’s innovation being constrained by proprietary software restrictions? You’re not alone—these limitations are increasingly at odds with enterprise growth objectives, affecting both...
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MongoDB Atlas On-Premise: Challenges and Flexible Alternatives
If you’re running enterprise applications, you might be facing a common dilemma: cloud solutions offer great features, but regulatory constraints and data sovereignty laws might prevent you from using...
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Enhancing Keyhole: Pulling More Metrics from MongoDB’s FTDC
Everyone knows that MongoDB has FTDC (Full-Time Diagnostic Data Capture), which helps MongoDB engineers analyze server behavior, tune parameters, and conduct forensic work when issues occur within...
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MongoDB Pricing Explained: What You’re Really Paying For
If you’re using MongoDB, whether it’s the Community Edition, Enterprise Advanced, or Atlas, you’ve probably asked yourself at some point: what is this actually costing us? And the answer isn’t always...
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Behind the Scenes: How Percona Support Diagnosed a MongoDB FTDC Freeze
One of our customers recently reported that MongoDB’s diagnostic metrics—collected via FTDC (Full-Time Diagnostic Data Capture)—had stopped updating. As a result, no metrics were being collected,...
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Does FCV Have Any Impact on MongoDB Performance?
It is generally known and established that different database versions provide different sets of features and performance rates. Along with the binary versions, MongoDB has a property called Feature...
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MongoDB Operators Explained: Features, Limitations, and Open Source Alternatives
If you’ve tried running MongoDB on Kubernetes, you’ve likely run into some unique challenges. Stateful workloads like replica sets and sharded clusters can be messy in containers, and things that...
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MongoDB 101: Tuning WiredTiger Cache After a Memory Upgrade
This post was originally published in January 2021 and was updated in March 2025. Adding more memory to your MongoDB deployment is a common vertical scaling strategy. But simply increasing RAM isn’t...
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MongoDB Benchmarking Made Effortless With MongoDB Workload Generator
Recognizing a gap in the availability of straightforward tools for MongoDB benchmarking, particularly those that do not require complex compilation, configuration, and intricate setups, I developed...
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5 Effective Strategies for MongoDB Performance Tuning
This blog was published in January of 2021 and updated in March of 2025. Effective MongoDB performance tuning is crucial for keeping your applications running at peak speed. As with any database...
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MongoDB Docker Installation: Everything You Need to Know
This blog was originally published in August of 2021 and updated in March of 2025. Need to get a MongoDB instance up and running quickly for development or testing? Docker offers a fantastic solution....
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A Tutorial on MongoDB Sharding Best Practices & When To Enable It
This blog was originally published in October 2017 and was updated in March 2025. Is your MongoDB database struggling with growth? Sharding might be the answer, but it’s a complex architectural change....
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Automating MongoDB Log Rotation
This post was originally written in September 2018 and was updated in March 2025. MongoDB logs are essential for tracking operations and troubleshooting, but left unmanaged, they can quickly consume...
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Compression Methods in MongoDB: Snappy vs. Zstd
This post was originally published in March 2023 and was updated in March 2025. When it comes to optimizing MongoDB, compression is a key lever for reducing storage footprint, minimizing I/O...
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MongoDB Partitioning: Best Practices for Scalability and Performance
This post was originally published in June 2024 and was updated in March 2025. MongoDB’s flexibility and speed make it a popular database choice, but as your data grows, managing and querying massive...
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How to Run MongoDB on Kubernetes: Solutions, Pros and Cons
This blog was originally published in August 2022 and was updated in April 2025. In this blog, we’ll examine the increasingly popular practice of running MongoDB on Kubernetes. We will explore various...
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Is MongoDB Truly Open Source? A Critical Look at SSPL
This post was originally published in April 2023 and was updated in April 2025. When asked “Is MongoDB open source?”, at Percona, our definitive answer is “no.” Let’s start with this: MongoDB is...
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Essential MongoDB Backup Best Practices for Data Protection
This blog was originally published in September 2020 and was updated in April 2025. As a MongoDB user, ensuring your data is safe and secure in the event of a disaster or system failure is crucial....
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4 Ways to Convert MongoDB BSON to JSON Format
This post was originally published in April, 2023 and was updated in April, 2025. Binary Javascript Object Notation (BSON) is a binary-encoded serialization of JSON documents. JSON is easier to...
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Freedom and Flexibility: Rethinking Your MongoDB Cloud Strategy Beyond Atlas
Let’s be honest: Getting MongoDB up and running quickly in the cloud sounds fantastic. Services like MongoDB Atlas promise easy deployment, automated scaling, and hands-off management on AWS, Azure,...
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