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Webinar Replay: How to Design Open Source Databases for High Availability
Thanks for joining this week’s webinar on how to design open source databases for high availability with Ashraf Sharif, Senior Support Engineer at Severalnines. From discussing high availability...
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How to Measure Database Availability?
Database availability is notoriously hard to measure and report on, although it is an important KPI in any SLA between you and your customer. We often define availability in terms of 9’s (e.g. 99.9% or...
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Comparing Replication Solutions from Oracle and MySQL
Databases can fail without warning - either because of a crash caused by a software bug, or the underlying hardware components. The cloud brings another dimension to the issue, because of the ephemeral...
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PostgreSQL Privileges and Security - Locking Down the Public Schema
IntroductionIn a previous article we introduced the basics of understanding PostgreSQL schemas, the mechanics of creation and deletion, and reviewed several use cases. This article will extend upon...
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New Webinar: How to Measure Database Availability
Join us on April 24th for Part 2 of our database high availability webinar special!In this session we will focus on how to measure database availability. It is notoriously hard to measure and report...
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Introduction - couple of words on “High Availability”.These days high availability is a must for any serious deployment. Long gone are days when you could schedule a downtime of your database for...
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New Whitepaper: How to Design Highly Available Open Source Database Environments
We’re happy to announce that our latest technical whitepaper on how to design highly available open source database environments is now available to download.Written back our colleague Krzysztof...
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Capacity Planning for MySQL and MariaDB - Dimensioning Storage Size
Server manufacturers and cloud providers offer different kinds of storage solutions to cater for your database needs. When buying a new server or choosing a cloud instance to run our database, we often...
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My Favorite PostgreSQL Queries and Why They Matter
Databases, tables, normalization, and a solid backup plan allow us to store and maintain data.Those combined best practices, in turn, afford us interaction with that data. In today's data-driven world,...
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How to Achieve GDPR Compliance: Documenting Our Experience (II)
IntroductionThe General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is just around the corner, and we’re sharing with you the things we’re doing to make sure we’re ready. As the GDPR will be taking effect on May...
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How to Make Your MySQL or MariaDB Database Highly Available on AWS and Google...
Running databases on cloud infrastructure is getting increasingly popular these days. Although a cloud VM may not be as reliable as an enterprise-grade server, the main cloud providers offer a variety...
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Ten Tips for Going into Production with PostgreSQL
Going into production is a very important task that must be carefully thought and planned beforehand. Some not so good decisions may be easily corrected afterwards, but some others not. So it is always...
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ClusterControl Tips & Tricks - Using socat on CentOS/RHEL for Streaming Backups
There are several ways to perform remote-to-remote data copy - socat, netcat, rsync, scp, sftp. ClusterControl was using netcat for remote copy purposes, however we have flipped that decision to use...
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Database Automation Behind Sweden’s New Electronic Identity Freja eID
Severalnines is excited to announce its newest customer Verisec AB, an international IT security company on the cutting edge of digital security, creating solutions that make systems secure and easily...
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Top Backup Tools for PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL has the reputation of being rock solid from its beginnings, and over the years has accumulated a set of impressive features. However the peace of mind that your on-disk data is ACID...
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A Guide to Pgpool for PostgreSQL - Part One
Pgpool is less actual today, than it used to be 10 years ago, when it was the default part of a production PostgreSQL set up. Often when somebody was talking about PostgreSQL cluster, they were...
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The Best ETL Tools for Migrating to PostgreSQL
What is ETL?ETL refers to Extract, Transform and Load, it is a 3 step process applied to extract the data from various sources (which can exist in various forms), cleanse, and load in to a target...
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An Expert’s Guide to Slony Replication for PostgreSQL
What is Slony?Slony-I (referred to as just ‘Slony’ from here on out) is a third-party replication system for PostgreSQL that dates back to before version 8.0, making it one of the older options for...
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Key Things to Monitor in MongoDB
Enhancing system performance, especially for computer structures, requires a process of getting a good overview of performance. This process is generally called monitoring. Monitoring is an essential...
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An Overview of Database Indexing for MongoDB
What is Indexing?Indexing is an important concept in database world. Main advantage of creating index on any field is faster access of data . It optimizes the process of database searching and...
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