Google Cloud SQL for MySQL is a fully-managed database service that helps you set up, maintain, manage, and administer your MySQL relational databases on Google Cloud Platform. However, there are differences between Cloud SQL and...

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...

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...

Using a Load Balancer is a good idea for any database technology, as you can redirect applications to the available or healthy database nodes and even distribute the traffic across multiple servers to improve performance....

A single point of failure (SPOF)  is a common reason why organizations are working towards distributing the presence of their database environments to another location geographically. It's part of the Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity...

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...

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...

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...

All companies nowadays have (or should have) a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) to prevent data loss in the case of failure; built according to an acceptable Recovery Point Objective (RPO) for the business. A backup...

There are numerous cloud providers these days. They can be small or large, local or with data centers spread across the whole world. Many of these cloud providers offer some kind of a managed relational...

In our last blog we discussed the offerings available within Amazon Web Services (AWS) when running a MySQL Galera Cluster. In this blog, we'll continue the discussion by looking further at what the offerings are...

Where to Start? The best place I could find to start was none other than the official documentation. There is also a GCP Youtube channel for those who prefer multimedia. Once finding myself into the...