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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Cloud Disaster Recovery for MariaDB and MySQL
MySQL has a long tradition in geographic replication. Distributing clusters to remote data centers reduces the effects of geographic latency by pushing data closer to the user. It also provides a...
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Understanding Deadlocks in MySQL & PostgreSQL
Working with databases, concurrency control is the concept that ensures that database transactions are performed concurrently without violating data integrity.There is a lot of theory and different...
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How to Recover Galera Cluster or MySQL Replication from Split Brain Syndrome
You may have heard about the term “split brain”. What it is? How does it affect your clusters? In this blog post we will discuss what exactly it is, what danger it may pose to your database, how we can...
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Webinar: MySQL & MariaDB Performance Tuning for Dummies
You’re running MySQL or MariaDB as backend database, how do you tune it to make best use of the hardware? How do you optimize the Operating System? How do you best configure MySQL or MariaDB for a...
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MySQL on Docker: Running a MariaDB Galera Cluster without Container...
Container orchestration tools simplify the running of a distributed system, by deploying and redeploying containers and handling any failures that occur. One might need to move applications around,...
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How to Benchmark Performance of MySQL & MariaDB using SysBench
What is SysBench? If you work with MySQL on a regular basis, then you most probably have heard of it. SysBench has been in the MySQL ecosystem for a long time. It was originally written by Peter...
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ChatOps - Managing MySQL, MongoDB & PostgreSQL from Slack
What is ChatOps?Nowadays, we make use of multiple communication channels to manage or receive information from our systems, such as email, chat and applications among others. If we could centralize...
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Comparing RDS vs EC2 for Managing MySQL or MariaDB on AWS
RDS is a Database as a Service (DBaaS) that automatically configures and maintains your databases in the AWS cloud. The user has limited power over specific configurations in comparison to running...
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MySQL on Docker: Running a MariaDB Galera Cluster without Orchestration Tools...
As we saw in the first part of this blog, a strongly consistent database cluster like Galera does not play well with container orchestration tools like Kubernetes or Swarm. We showed you how to deploy...
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Schema Management Tips for MySQL & MariaDB
Database schema is not something that is written in stone. It is designed for a given application, but then the requirements may and usually do change. New modules and functionalities are added to the...
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How to Improve Performance of Galera Cluster for MySQL or MariaDB
Galera Cluster comes with many notable features that are not available in standard MySQL replication (or Group Replication); automatic node provisioning, true multi-master with conflict resolutions and...
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New Whitepaper: Disaster Recovery Planning for MySQL & MariaDB
We’re happy to announce that our new whitepaper Disaster Recovery Planning for MySQL & MariaDB is now available to download for free!Database outages are almost inevitable and understanding the...
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