PostgreSQL 18 vacuum tuning diagram showing the autovacuum decision pipeline, new PostgreSQL 18 parameters and per-table policy tiers

Your Engineers Shouldn’t Be Doing PostgreSQL 18 Vacuum Tuning at Midnight

PostgreSQL 18 vacuum tuning is a design activity that belongs in a change review, next to your schema migrations and your capacity model. In most engineering organisations it is still handled somewhere else entirely: at [...]

Oracle Exadata Cost Optimization: Migrating to an Open Source Data Infrastructure Stack Without Compromising Performance, Scalability, Availability, or Reliability

MinervaDB whitepaper on Oracle Exadata cost optimization: measure Exadata license spend, optimize in place, then migrate to PostgreSQL 18, ClickHouse 26.3 LTS, Kafka/Debezium and Valkey with code, diagrams, TCO model and a rollback-safe cutover plan.

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BigQuery SOX Compliance Checklist: 12 Proven Controls

A production-tested BigQuery SOX compliance checklist: IAM, CMEK, audit-log retention, change management, and the SQL evidence queries auditors accept.

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MySQL Thread Pool Plugin Moves to Community Edition in MySQL 26.7

MySQL 26.7 moved the Thread Pool plugin to Community edition. As of the 26.7.0 Innovation release (GA 2026-07-31), the MySQL Thread Pool — the connection-handling model Oracle reserved for MySQL Enterprise Edition for roughly fifteen [...]

MongoDB Performance Troubleshooting: 7 Proven Fixes for 8.3

MongoDB performance troubleshooting changed materially with MongoDB 8.3 (GA 2026-05-04, current patch 8.3.8): the Cost-Based Ranker (CBR) is now part of the default plan-selection mechanism, query memory is finally a first-class measurable quantity, and slow [...]

Redis 8.8 cache tier cutting time to result for distributed PostgreSQL query performance in SaaS platforms - hourglass on calendar symbolizing query latency and TTL-based caching

How Redis 8.8 Improves Distributed PostgreSQL Query Performance in SaaS Platforms

Redis 8.8 improves distributed PostgreSQL query performance in SaaS platforms: kvobj memory savings, INCREX rate limiting, hot-key telemetry and a measured cache-aside design.

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MariaDB 12.3 LTS Webinar: Performance, Scalability, High Availability & the AI-Native Database

Our MariaDB 12.3 LTS webinar is now available as a free PDF download. Over 60 minutes, Shiv Iyer — Founder & CEO of MinervaDB and a database engineer who has spent three decades inside MySQL, [...]

MariaDB High Availability: Maximum Availability Solutions in MariaDB 12.3 LTS

MariaDB high availability reached a new baseline with MariaDB Server 12.3 LTS, GA on 2026-05-29 as version 12.3.2. For the first time, a MariaDB LTS release ships parallel replication between Galera Clusters (MDEV-20065), closing the [...]

Redis 8.10 Performance and Reliability: What Actually Changed

Redis 8.10 performance and reliability: the short version Redis 8.10 performance and reliability: the three changes that alter how you size and operate a Redis fleet. The headline for Redis 8.10 performance is that this [...]

PostgreSQL 18 Performance Internals: Optimizer and Indexing Advancements

PostgreSQL 18 performance internals deep dive: async I/O, B-tree skip scan, self-join elimination and planner rewrites — verified with real EXPLAIN output on 18.4.

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Your Engineers Shouldn’t Be Doing PostgreSQL 18 Vacuum Tuning at Midnight

Oracle Exadata Cost Optimization: Migrating to an Open Source Data Infrastructure Stack Without Compromising Performance, Scalability, Availability, or Reliability

MySQL Thread Pool Plugin Moves to Community Edition in MySQL 26.7

MongoDB Performance Troubleshooting: 7 Proven Fixes for 8.3

How Redis 8.8 Improves Distributed PostgreSQL Query Performance in SaaS Platforms

MariaDB 12.3 LTS Webinar: Performance, Scalability, High Availability & the AI-Native Database

MariaDB High Availability: Maximum Availability Solutions in MariaDB 12.3 LTS

Redis 8.10 Performance and Reliability: What Actually Changed

PostgreSQL 18 Performance Internals: Optimizer and Indexing Advancements