Best DBaaS Solutions for PostgreSQL
Cloud computing is getting more and more used in all companies to take advantage of all the features offered by this technology.It allows for On-Demand availability of compute power, database, storage,...
View ArticleDBaaS - On-Prem Private vs Public Cloud
Database as a Service (DBaaS) is a service model that offers automated deployment, high availability, scalability, easy to use and eliminates management of your database infrastructure. There are two...
View ArticleAn Overview of Trusted Extensions in PostgreSQL 13
In my previous blog, we explored new capabilities of Logical replication with Partition tables in PostgreSQL 13. Needless to say that there are multitude of such features in the mentioned release which...
View ArticleHow to Prevent Rollbacks in MongoDB
Replication in MongoDB involves replica sets by members with an architecture of a primary and secondary members but at times with a non data bearing member called an arbiter. The replication process is...
View ArticlePress Release: Severalnines' Multi-Cloud, Full-Ops Database Management...
The multi-cloud approach for databases, despite being harder to manage, is growing in popularity as it helps architect against failure and mitigates the risk of cloud lock-in.STOCKHOLM, August 31, 2020...
View ArticleBuilding a Highly Available Database for Moodle Using MariaDB (Replication &...
Face-to-face meetings, nowadays, are limited to the bare minimum, online activities have taken over as the main way for teacher - student interaction. It increased the stress on the existing online...
View ArticleBuilding a Highly Available Database for Moodle Using MySQL Replication
Moodle is an open source learning management system, widely used by schools and universities around the world. The project started in 2002 by Martin Dougiamas, with the aim to provide learners,...
View ArticleBuilding a Highly Available Database for Moodle Using PostgreSQL
Impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of SMBs/SMEs are transitioning to online platforms. Face-to-face or physical classes are also affected by this pandemic and a lot of schools and universities...
View ArticleWhat’s New in MongoDB 4.4
MongoDB 4.4 (currently in beta) is being rolled out with the main agenda of addressing developer suggestions from the MongoDB community . This version has been released to augment the database's...
View ArticleScaling Out the Moodle Database
Moodle is a very popular platform to run online courses. With the situation we see in 2020, Moodle, along with communicators like Zoom forms the backbone of the services that allow online learning and...
View ArticleTips for Managing & Monitoring Your Moodle Database
No matter what kind of application/system you are running, you will always need to manage and monitor your databases. Even in a small project, you want to be sure everything is going fine or if you...
View ArticleDriving Performance for PostgreSQL with HAProxy
Database performance is a very important concern when maintaining your database cluster, especially as it grows over the time. This is especially true if your application started out with low traffic...
View ArticleHow Does a Database Load Balancer Work?
A database Load Balancer is a middleware service that stands between applications and databases. It distributes the workload across multiple database servers running behind it. The goals of having...
View ArticleStoring Files in MongoDB with GridFS
Many applications involve file management and have file storage as an important feature for enhancing data processing. File storage often requires a third party CDN (Content Delivery Network), such as...
View ArticleHow to Achieve PostgreSQL High Availability with pgBouncer
In the database world, there are many common concepts like High Availability, Failover, and Connection pooling. All of them are useful things to implement on any system, and even a must in some cases.A...
View ArticleDatabase Load Balancing: Distributed vs Centralized Setups
A database load balancer, or database reverse proxy, distributes the incoming database workload across multiple database servers running behind it. The goals of having database load balancers are to...
View ArticleWhat’s New in HAProxy 2.2
HAProxy is one of most popular open source load balancers. It is a TCP/HTTP load balancer that can handle incoming traffic and spread the request to multiple endpoints and servers. HAProxy uses reverse...
View ArticleConnection Handling & Throttling with HAProxy
HAProxy continues to evolve into a more powerful software for load balancing and proxying solutions. It's one of the most popular high availability solutions and can work as a proxy for Layer 4 (TCP)...
View ArticleA Guide to MySQL Indexes
When MySQL query optimization is mentioned, indexes are one of the first things that get covered. Today, we will try to see why they are so important.What are Indexes?In general, an index is an...
View ArticleConnection Handling & Throttling with ProxySQL
The ability to shape the traffic that goes to the database is one of the most important ones. In the past days you had not that much control over it - applications sent the traffic to the database and...
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