Deploying Secure Multicloud MySQL Replication on AWS and GCP with VPN
Why Choose MySQL Replication?Some basics firast about the replication technology. MySQL Replication is not complicated! It is easy to implement, monitor, and tune as there are various resources you can...
View ArticleMySQL Replication for High Availability - New Whitepaper
We’re happy to announce that our newly updated whitepaper MySQL Replication for High Availability is now available to download for free!MySQL Replication enables data from one MySQL database server to...
View ArticleDatabase High Availability for Camunda BPM using MySQL or MariaDB Galera Cluster
Camunda BPM is an open-source workflow and decision automation platform. Camunda BPM ships with tools for creating workflow and decision models, operating deployed models in production, and allowing...
View ArticleHow to Deploy Open Source Databases - New Whitepaper
We’re happy to announce that our new whitepaper How to Deploy Open Source Databases is now available to download for free!Choosing which DB engine to use between all the options we have today is not an...
View ArticleHow to Perform a Failback Operation for MySQL Replication Setup
MySQL master-slave replication is pretty easy and straightforward to set up. This is the main reason why people choose this technology as the first step to achieve better database availability....
View ArticleBenchmarking Manual Database Deployments vs Automated Deployments
There are multiple ways of deploying a database. You can install it by hand, you can rely on the widely available infrastructure orchestration tools like Ansible, Chef, Puppet or Salt. Those tools are...
View ArticleWhat’s New in ProxySQL 2.0
ProxySQL is one of the best proxies out there for MySQL. It introduced a great deal of options for database administrators. It made possible to shape the database traffic by delaying, caching or...
View ArticleHow to Execute and Manage MySQL Backups for Oracle DBA’s
Migrating from Oracle database to open source can bring a number of benefits. The lower cost of ownership is tempting, and pushes a lot of companies to migrate. At the same time DevOps, SysOps or DBA’s...
View ArticlePopular Docker Images for MySQL and MariaDB Server
A Docker image can be built by anyone who has the ability to write a script. That is why there are many similar images being built by the community, with minor differences but really serving a common...
View ArticleDatabase-Aware Load Balancing: How to Migrate from HAProxy to ProxySQL
HAProxy and ProxySQL are both very popular load balancers in MySQL world, but there is a significant difference between both those proxies. We will not go into details here, you can read more about...
View ArticleTop Common Issues with MHA and How to Fix Them
In our previous blogs, we discussed MHA as a failover tool used in MySQL master-slave setups. Last month, we also blogged about how to handle MHA when it crashed. Today, we will see the top issues that...
View ArticleHow to Migrate WHMCS Database to MariaDB Galera Cluster
WHMCS is an all-in-one client management, billing and support solution for web hosting companies. It's one of the leaders in the hosting automation world to be used alongside the hosting control panel...
View ArticleHow to Automate Migration from Standalone MySQL to Galera Cluster using Ansible
Database migrations don’t scale well. Typically you need to perform a great deal of tests before you can pull the trigger and switch from old to new. Migrations are usually done manually, as most of...
View ArticleDatabase Automation with Puppet: Deploying MySQL & MariaDB Replication
Puppet is an open source systems management tool for centralizing and automating configuration management. Automation tools help to minimize manual and repetitive tasks, and can save a great deal of...
View ArticleAn Overview of PostgreSQL & MySQL Cross Replication
This blog is aimed at explaining an overview of cross replication between PostgreSQL and MySQL, and further discussing the methods of configuring cross replication between the two database servers....
View ArticleDatabase Automation with Puppet: Deploying MySQL & MariaDB Galera Cluster
In the previous blog post, we showed you some basic steps to deploy and manage a standalone MySQL server as well as MySQL Replication setup using the MySQL Puppet module. In this second installation,...
View ArticleMigrating from MySQL Enterprise to MariaDB 10.3
While it shares the same heritage with MySQL, MariaDB is a different database. Over the years as new versions of MySQL and MariaDB were released, both projects have differed into two different RDBMS...
View ArticleHandling Large Data Volumes with MySQL and MariaDB
Most databases grow in size over time. The growth is not always fast enough to impact the performance of the database, but there are definitely cases where that happens. When it does, we often wonder...
View ArticleMySQL Replication with ProxySQL on WHM/cPanel Servers - Part 1
WHM and cPanel is no doubt the most popular hosting control panel for Linux based environments. It supports a number of database backends - MySQL, MariaDB and PostgreSQL as the application datastore....
View ArticleMySQL Replication with ProxySQL on WHM/cPanel Servers - Part 2
In the first part of the series, we showed you how to deploy a MySQL Replication setup with ProxySQL with WHM and cPanel. In this part, we are going to show some post-deployment operations for...
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