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Announcing ClusterControl 1.6 - automation and management of open source...
Today we are excited to announce the 1.6 release of ClusterControl - the all-inclusive database management system that lets you easily deploy, monitor, manage and scale highly available open source...
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Visualizing your Cluster Topology in ClusterControl
Distributed databases or clusters typically consist of multiple nodes and note types, and it is not always easy to understand how all these hang together. For instance, one could have a replication...
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How to Measure Database Availability?
Wednesday, April 25, 2018 - 12:00Database 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...
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How to do Point-in-Time Recovery of MySQL & MariaDB Data using ClusterControl
Backups are crucial when it comes to safety of data. They are the ultimate disaster recovery solution - you have no database nodes reachable and your datacenter could literally have gone up in smoke,...
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Watch the Webinar Replay: How to Measure Database Availability
Watch the replay of Part 2 of our database high availability webinar special!Thanks to to everyone who participated in this week’s webinar on how to measure database availability. The replay and slides...
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Cloud Database Features Comparison - Amazon RDS vs Google Cloud SQL
As more companies run their workloads in the cloud, cloud database services are increasingly being used to manage data. One of the advantages of using a cloud database service instead of maintaining...
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Comparing Cloud Database Options for PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is world’s most advanced and preferred open source RDBMS for many start-ups, mobile applications and developers.The traditional way to set up, operate and scale PostgreSQL is time consuming...
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How to Overcome Accidental Data Deletion in MySQL & MariaDB
Someone accidently deleted part of the database. Someone forgot to include a WHERE clause in a DELETE query, or they dropped the wrong table. Things like that may and will happen, it is inevitable and...
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A Guide to Pgpool for PostgreSQL - Part Two
This is the second part of the blog “A Guide to Pgpool for PostgreSQL”. The first part covering load balancing, session pooling, in memory cache and installation can be found here.Many users look...
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How to Go Into Production With MongoDB - Top Ten Tips
After the successful development of the application and prior to dedicating yourself to the production of MongoDB, reckon with these quick guidelines in order to ensure a smooth and efficient flow as...
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Migrating to Galera Cluster for MySQL and MariaDB
Galera Cluster is a mainstream option for high availability MySQL and MariaDB. And though it has established itself as a credible replacement for traditional MySQL master-slave architectures, it is not...
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Getting the Most Out of ClusterControl Community Edition
ClusterControl is an agentless management and monitoring system that helps to deploy, manage, monitor and scale our databases from a friendly interface. It allows us to perform, in a few seconds,...
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New Webinar on How to Migrate to Galera Cluster for MySQL & MariaDB
Join us on Tuesday May 29th for this new webinar with Severalnines Support Engineer Bart Oles, who will walk you through what you need to know in order to migrate from standalone or a master-slave...
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An Overview of the Serial Pseudo-Datatype for PostgreSQL
IntroductionPostgreSQL natively supplies a rich diversity of data types supporting many practical use cases. This article introduces the special implementation of serial data types typically used for...
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Deploying Cloud Databases with ClusterControl 1.6
ClusterControl 1.6 comes with tighter integration with AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, so it is now possible to launch new instances and deploy MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB and PostgreSQL directly from the...
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My MySQL Database is Corrupted... What Do I Do Now?
How do MySQL tables get corrupted? There are many ways to spoil data files. Often, corruption is due to defects in the underlying platform, which MySQL relies on to store and retrieve data - disk...
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A Guide to PGpool Part Three - Hints & Observations
In the previous part I dared to play with a not implemented feature fantasising how would it work. Well HA in first place is a matter of design and only then implementation. It does not excuse bad...
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Updated: Become a ClusterControl DBA: Safeguarding your Data
In the past four posts of the blog series, we covered deployment of clustering/replication (MySQL/Galera, MySQL Replication, MongoDB & PostgreSQL), management & monitoring of your existing...
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Setting up HTTPS on the ClusterControl Server
As a platform that manages all of your databases, ClusterControl maintains the communication with the backend servers, it sends commands and collect metrics. In order to avoid unauthorized access, it...
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MongoDB Chain Replication Basics
What is Chain Replication?When we talk about replication, we are referring to the process of making redundant copies of data in order to meet design criteria on data availability. Chain replication,...
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