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Deploying MariaDB Sharding with Spider using ClusterControl
MariaDB offers built-in multi-host sharding capabilities with the Spider storage engine. Spider supports partitioning and XA transactions and allows remote tables of different MariaDB instances to be...
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Running Vitess and MySQL with ClusterControl
For all who are not familiar with Vitess, it is a MySQL-based database system that is intended to deliver an easy-to-scale, sharded, relational database management system. We will not get into details...
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ClusterControl Alert Integration Using Webhooks
There is no doubt that monitoring and alerting is one of critical aspects for any application, especially for a mission-critical environment. From those alerts and notifications, one should be able to...
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How to Configure PostgreSQL Sharding with ClusterControl
Sometimes it is hard to manage a large amount of data in a company, especially with the exponential increment of Data Analytics and IoT usage. Depending on the size, this amount of data could affect...
View ArticlePerformance Monitoring of Redis
Just like any database activity, monitoring is a constant practice to make sure an optimal performance of databases is always assured and guaranteed to the limit that it is expected to provide. Redis...
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ClusterControl - Advanced Backup Management - mariabackup Part I
ClusterControl can, among others, act as a great tool to help you design and execute the backup schedule. Numerous features are available including backup verification, transparent backup encryption...
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ClusterControl runtime configuration options
When you install ClusterControl, it has a default configuration that maybe doesn’t fit your requirements so probably you will need to customize this installation. For this, you can modify the...
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ClusterControl - Advanced Backup Management - mariabackup Part II
In the previous part we have tested backup time and effectiveness of the compression for different backup compression levels and methods. In this blog we will continue our efforts and we will talk...
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ACL using s9s CLI
Starting with ClusterControl 1.8.2, we have introduced new user management, permissions as well as access controls. From this version onwards, all of the features we mentioned earlier will be...
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Digging Deeper into ClusterControl’s Performance Advisors
If you are a frequent reader of the Severalnines’ database blog, you have probably noticed that Severalnines’ crew talks about performance of databases pretty frequently. Part of that is because of...
View ArticlePerformance Tuning for Redis
In any database setup, performance is always a challenge and is most of the time database administrators and developers always deals with especially for a production and large environment. It's worth...
View ArticleUpgrading to PostgreSQL13
In a recent blog about what is new in PostgreSQL 13, we reviewed some of the new features of this version, but now, let’s see how to upgrade to be able to take advantage of all these mentioned...
View ArticleIntroduction to Redis (What it is, what are the use cases etc)
Redis OverviewRedis (which means Remote Dictionary Serve) is an open-source NoSQL database known to be a fast, in-memory key-value data store, cache, message broker, and queue. The project started by...
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Intro To Key-value Stores
When the internet gained popularity and relational databases could not cope with the tremendous variety of data types in the mid-1990s, non-relational databases or commonly referred to as NoSQL was...
View ArticleHow to Choose a Key-value Store
A key-value database is a type of non-relational database that uses a simple key-value method to store data. A key-value database stores data as a collection of key-value pairs in which a key serves as...
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ClusterControl - Advanced Backup Management - PostgreSQL
Information is one of the most valuable assets in a company, so you will need a good Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) to prevent data loss in the event of an accident or hardware failure. Backups are a...
View ArticleTop 3 Most Popular NoSQL Databases
NoSQL ("not only SQL") is an approach to database design that enables the storage and querying of data outside the traditional structures found in relational databases. It was created to primarily deal...
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A Comparison Between ClusterControl and MongoDB OPS Manager
There are various ways to provision MongoDB servers, e.g., manual installation by command line, configuration management tools (eg. ansible, saltstack), or specialized MongoDB deployment tools such as...
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ClusterControl - Advanced Backup Management - MongoDB
Disaster recovery does not complete without a proper backup system. When something bad happens, the data could be restored by using the backup preferably with the latest one. We might want to avoid...
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Proactive MongoDB Monitoring (Developer Studio/Advisors angle)
ClusterControl has many metrics related to the database, replication, and also operating system. You can also monitor the process that runs inside the database through the opscounter in the Overview.If...
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