Tips for Migrating from HAProxy to ProxySQL
ProxySQL is a dedicated load balancer for MySQL which comes with a variety of features including, but not limited to query redirecting, query caching or traffic shaping. It can be used to easily set up...
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...
Understanding the HAProxy Statistics for MySQL & PostgreSQL
Having a Load Balancer is always a good option to improve your database environment. It can help you on redirect applications to available database nodes, distribute the traffic across multiple servers to improve performance, or...
Connection Handling & Throttling with HAProxy
HAProxy continues to evolve into a more powerful software for load balancing and proxying solutions. It's one of the most popular high availability solutions and can work as a proxy for Layer 4 (TCP) and...
What’s New in HAProxy 2.2
HAProxy is one of most popular open source load balancers. It is a TCP/HTTP load balancer that can handle incoming traffic and spread the request to multiple endpoints and servers. HAProxy uses reverse proxy to...
How Does a Database Load Balancer Work?
A database Load Balancer is a middleware service that stands between applications and databases. It distributes the workload across multiple database servers running behind it. The goals of having database load balancing are to provide...
Driving Performance for PostgreSQL with HAProxy
Database performance is a very important concern when maintaining your database cluster, especially as it grows over the time. This is especially true if your application started out with low traffic going then growting to...
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...
How Performant is Your ProxySQL Node?
ProxySQL has gained a lot of interest right now in the MySQL and MariaDB database world, not to mention ClickHouse which helps make the case for ProxySQL. It’s safe to say that ProxySQL has become...
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...
Database Load Balancing in the Cloud – MySQL Master Failover with ProxySQL 2.0: Part One (Deployment)
The cloud provides very flexible environments to work with. You can easily scale it up and down by adding or removing nodes. If there’s a need, you can easily create a clone of your environment....
MySQL Load Balancing with ProxySQL – An Overview
Year 2015 was a good year for proxies in MySQL environments. First, MariaDB released a GA version of MaxScale, a new proxy that understands MySQL Replication and Galera topologies and supports read-write splitting. Later in...