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Become a ClusterControl DBA: Operational Reports for MySQL, MariaDB,...
The majority of DBA’s perform health checks on their databases every now and then. Usually, it would happen on a daily or weekly basis. We previously discussed why such checks are important and what...
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Introducing Agent-Based Database Monitoring with ClusterControl 1.7
We are excited to announce the 1.7 release of ClusterControl - the only management system you’ll ever need to take control of your open source database infrastructure!ClusterControl 1.7 introduces new...
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New White Paper on State-of-the-Art Database Management: ClusterControl - The...
Today we’re happy to announce the availability of our first white paper on ClusterControl, the only management system you’ll ever need to automate and manage your open source database...
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MySQL on Docker: Running ProxySQL as a Helper Container on Kubernetes
ProxySQL commonly sits between the application and database tiers, in so called reverse-proxy tier. When your application containers are orchestrated and managed by Kubernetes, you might want to use...
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Webinar: Backup Management for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL & MongoDB with...
Are you frustrated with traditional, labour-intensive backup and archive practices for your MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB and PostgreSQL databases?What if you could have one backup management solution for...
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Effective Monitoring of MySQL Replication with SCUMM Dashboards - Part 2
In our previous blog on SCUMM dashboards, we looked at the MySQL overview dashboard. The new version of ClusterControl (ver. 1.7) offers a number of high resolution graphs of useful metrics, and we...
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MySQL on Docker: Running ProxySQL as Kubernetes Service
When running distributed database clusters, it is quite common to front them with load balancers. The advantages are clear - load balancing, connection failover and decoupling of the application tier...
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SQL Firewalling Made Easy with ClusterControl & ProxySQL
Reading the title of this blog post may raise some questions. SQL firewall - what is that? What does it do? Why would I need something like that in the first place? Well, the ability to block certain...
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New Webinar: How to Manage Replication Failover Processes for MySQL, MariaDB...
If you’re looking at minimizing downtime and meet your SLAs through an automated or semi-automated approach, then this webinar is for you:A detailed overview of what failover processes may look like in...
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How to Encrypt Your MySQL & MariaDB Backups
We usually take care of things we value, whether it is an expensive smartphone or the company’s servers. Data is one of the most important assets of the organisation, and although we do not see it, it...
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Database Backups - Comparing MariaDB Mariabackup and Percona Xtrabackup
Your database server stores some of your enterprise’s most valuable information. Guaranteeing reliable database backups to prevent data loss in the event of an accident or hardware failure is a...
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Cloud Backup Options for MySQL & MariaDB Databases
The principal objective of backing up your data is, of course, the ability to roll back and access your archives in case of hardware failure. To do business today, you need the certainty of knowing...
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Database Backup Encryption - Best Practices
Offsite backup storage should be a critical part of any organisation’s disaster recovery plan. The ability to store data in a separate physical location, where it could survive a catastrophic event...
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MySQL on Docker: Multiple Delayed Replication Slaves for Disaster Recovery...
Delayed replication allows a replication slave to deliberately lag behind the master by at least a specified amount of time. Before executing an event, the slave will first wait, if necessary, until...
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MySQL & MariaDB Query Caching with ProxySQL & ClusterControl
Queries have to be cached in every heavily loaded database, there is simply no way for a database to handle all traffic with reasonable performance. There are various mechanisms in which a query cache...
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How to Improve Replication Performance in a MySQL or MariaDB Galera Cluster
In the comments section of one of our blogs a reader asked about the impact of wsrep_slave_threads on Galera Cluster’s I/O performance and scalability. At that time, we couldn’t easily answer that...
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Database High Availability Comparison - MySQL / MariaDB Replication vs Oracle...
In the “State of the Open-Source DBMS Market, 2018”, Gartner predicts that by 2022, 70 percent of new in-house applications will be developed on an open-source database. And 50% of existing commercial...
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Severalnines 2018 Momentum: Raising the Bar on MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL &...
I’d like to take advantage of the quiet days between holidays to look back on 2018 at Severalnines as we continue to advance automation and management of the world’s most popular open source databases:...
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What is MariaDB TX? How to Manage the New MariaDB MySQL Fork!
You may have heard about MariaDB TX and you may have wondered what it is?Is there a difference between it and MariaDB Server 10.3?In this blog post we would like to give you an overview of the MariaDB...
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Announcing ClusterControl 1.7.1: Support for PostgreSQL 11 and MongoDB 4.0,...
We are excited to announce the 1.7.1 release of ClusterControl - the only management system you’ll ever need to take control of your open source database infrastructure!ClusterControl 1.7.1 introduces...
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