General SummaryPercona has released Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB) 8.0.28-12, expanding platform support in two key directions:
RHEL 10 and its derivatives (Oracle Linux 10, Rocky Linux 10, AlmaLinux 10) —
on both x86_64 and ARM (aarch64) Debian 13 "Trixie" — also on both x86_64 and ARM64
Notable points: Percona is actually ahead of upstream MongoDB here: as of writing, official MongoDB Community/Enterprise Server doesn't yet support Debian 13 natively — the community workaround is running the Debian 12 build on Trixie hosts. PSMDB closes that gap with native packages.
The release also adds SBOMs (Software Bills of Materials, in CycloneDX format)
and OpenVEX files for every release, improving supply-chain transparency
and vulnerability tracking.
A large chunk of the post makes the case for ARM adoption in database workloads:
Percona's own telemetry shows nearly 3x growth in ARM instance usage over the past year.
Cited (third-party) benchmarks suggest ARM instances
like AWS Graviton can be 20–40% cheaper, use up to 60% less energy,
and offer better memory bandwidth than comparable x86 setups —
though Percona is careful to flag these as directional, third-party figures
rather than guarantees.
A caveat to watch for: RHEL 10 raises the minimum CPU baseline on x86_64 to
x86-64-v3 (requiring AVX2 support), so older bare-metal servers may not qualify
for migration. ARM targets the ARMv8.0-A baseline.
Percona closes by offering migration help — assessment, benchmarking,
and cutover support — for teams considering a
move to ARM or onto RHEL 10/Debian 13.
In short: this is a platform-support announcement aimed at ops teams planning infrastructure refreshes, with a secondary pitch for why ARM is increasingly viable for MongoDB workloads.
