Migrating Amazon RDS (MySQL or MariaDB) to an On-Prem Server
Amazon Web Services is a technology giant, especially when it comes to pioneering itself in top-of-the-line cloud computing services. Its fully managed services products (Amazon RDS) is one of a kind. But then again, while...
The Benefits of Running Your Own Private DBaaS
Your organization is in a place where you are considering different options to quickly deploy your databases. Maybe you have multiple internal customers in product teams that want to be able to setup their environments...
Best DBaaS Solution for MySQL
As the most popular open source database, MySQL has been implemented in many places, from small startups to very large organizations. Use cases vary from simple website applications to mission critical environments with 99.999% uptime...
How to Achieve High Availability with a DBaaS Provider
One of the responsibilities of a Cloud Provider who offers a DBaaS (Database as a Service) solution is to give you a way to achieve High Availability without using a different provider. The main advantage...
The Top Five DBaaS Providers for Open Source Databases
These are, in our opinion, the top five DBaaS providers on the market. Each provides support for various types of open source databases. It is inevitable that the cloud tech giants (e.g. Amazon, Google, and...
Multi-Cloud Galera Cluster on AWS and Azure via Asynchronous Replication
In this blog post, we are going to set up two Galera-based Clusters running on Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7, one for the production and one for the disaster recovery (DR). We will use ClusterControl to...
Comparing Amazon RDS Point-in-Time Recovery to ClusterControl
The Amazon Relational Database Service (AWS RDS) is a fully-managed database service which can support multiple database engines. Among those supported are PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB. ClusterControl, on the other hand, is a database management...
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Alternatives – ClusterControl for PostgreSQL
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL is a managed service for PostgreSQL available as part of Amazon Web Services. It comes with a handful of management functions that are intended to reduce the workload of managing the...
Migrating PostgreSQL to the Cloud – Comparing Solutions from Amazon, Google & Microsoft
From a bird’s eye view, it would appear that when it comes to migrating the PostgreSQL workloads into the cloud, the choice of cloud provider should make no difference. Out of the box, PostgreSQL makes...
Creating a Cold Standby for PostgreSQL Using Amazon AWS
The need to achieve database High Availability is a pretty common task, and often a must. If your company has a limited budget, then maintaining a replication slave (or more than one) that is running...
Best Practices for Archiving Your Database in the Cloud
With the technology available today there is no excuse for failing to recover your data due to lack of backup policies or understanding of how vital it is to take backups as part of your...
How to Avoid PostgreSQL Cloud Vendor Lock-in
Vendor lock-in is a well-known concept for database technologies. With cloud usage increasing, this lock-in has also expanded to include cloud providers. We can define vendor lock-in as a proprietary lock-in that makes a customer...