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April 13, 2022

What is MariaDB Enterprise and How to Manage it with ClusterControl?

Have you ever wondered what products MariaDB Enterprise has to offer? Is it different from MariaDB Community? Can I manage them with ClusterControl? MariaDB provides two distributions of their software — Enterprise and Community. The...

October 21, 2020

Migrating from Maxscale to the ProxySQL Load Balancer

A database load balancer, or proxy, is a middleware service between application layer and database layer. Application connects to the database proxy, and the proxy forwards the connection to the database. There are some benefits...

September 23, 2020

MaxScale Basic Management Using MaxCtrl for MariaDB Cluster – Part Two

In the previous blog post, we have covered 4 basic management components using the MaxCtrl command-line client. In this blog post, we are going to cover the remaining part of the MaxScale components which are...

September 22, 2020

How Load Balancing Works with DBaaS Setups

Database as a Service (DBaaS) takes away the pain of operating a database. So as a user, when you decide to use a DBaas from a cloud service provider, you would only know the database...

July 21, 2020

MaxScale Basic Management Using MaxCtrl for MariaDB Cluster

In the previous blog post, we have covered some introductions to MaxScale installation, upgrade, and deployment using MaxCtrl command-line client. In this blog post, we are going to cover the MaxScale management aspects for our...

July 16, 2020

Deploying MariaDB Replication for High Availability

MariaDB Server offers asynchronous and synchronous replication. It can be set up to have a multi-source replication or with a multi-master setup.  For a read and write intensive application, a master-slave setup is common, but...

July 15, 2020

What's New in MariaDB MaxScale 2.4

MaxScale 2.4 was released on December 21st, 2019, and ClusterControl 1.7.6 supports the monitoring and managing up to this version. However, for deployment, ClusterControl only supports up to version 2.3. One has to manually upgrade...

July 8, 2020

Introduction to MaxScale Administration Using maxctrl for MariaDB Cluster

MariaDB Cluster consists of MariaDB Server with Galera Cluster and MariaDB MaxScale. As a multi-master replication solution, any MariaDB Server with Galera Cluster can operate as a primary server. This means that changes made to...

June 23, 2020

Database Load Balancing in a Multi-Cloud Environment

Multi-cloud environments are a very good solution to implement disaster recovery and very high level of high availability. They help to ensure that even a full outage of a whole region of one cloud provider...

March 18, 2020

How to Replace an Intermediate MySQL or MariaDB Master with a Binlog Server using MaxScale

Binary logs (binlogs) contain records of all changes to the databases. They are necessary for replication and can also be used to restore data after a backup. A binlog server is basically a binary log...

March 16, 2020

How to Install and Configure MaxScale for MariaDB

There are different reasons for adding a load balancer between your application and your database. If you have high traffic (and you want to balance the traffic between different database nodes) or you want to...

July 2, 2019

How to Use the Failover Mechanism of MaxScale

Ever since ClusterControl 1.2.11 was released in 2015, MariaDB MaxScale has been supported as a database load balancer. Over the years MaxScale has grown and matured, adding several rich features. Recently MariaDB MaxScale 2.2 was...

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