#Open Source articles and events

Last year at pgconf.dev, there was a discussion about improving the user interface for the PostgreSQL hackers mailing list, which is the main communication channel for PostgreSQL core development. Bas...

Percona.Connect London 2025 brought the open-source database community together for a half-day of learning and collaboration. The event focused on providing practical, technical insights for DBAs, Dev...

We’re excited to share that our recent test run using the Postgres Compatibility Index (PCI) achieved 100% compatibility....

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If you read - Using the JSON data type with MySQL 8 - Part I, you will see that inserting data into MySQL of JSON type is a very common and effective practice. Now we’ll see how to do it with a Python...

MySQL 8.0.32 came out recently and had some important bugfixes contributed by Perconians. Here is a brief overview of the work done....

If you are a mobile app, frontend, backend, or game developer, you use data types such as string, numeric, or DateTime. You also know that since the advent of non-relational databases (NoSQL) such as ...

In this post, we will cover the value of database monitoring and how we can use Open Source tools like PMM Percona Monitoring and Management to monitor and manage databases effectively....

The term Open Source Software reminds me of Abraham Lincoln’s widely accepted definition of Democracy. Lincoln said, “Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, and for the people”. Sim...

When we released TiDB 2.0 in April, part of that announcement also included the release of TiSpark 1.0–an integral part of the TiDB platform that makes complex analytics on “fresh” transactional data ...