Migrating Azure Database for MySQL/MariaDB to an On-Prem Server
Database migrations can impose huge challenges when you consider how to start, what tools to use, and how to achieve a full database migration successfully. Earlier, we have listed the top open source you can...
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...
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...
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...
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...
MySQL Cloud Backup and Restore Scenarios Using Microsoft Azure
Backups are a very important part of your database operations, as your business must be secured when catastrophe strikes. When that time comes (and it will), your Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective...
Failover & Failback for PostgreSQL on Microsoft Azure
It’s pretty common to use the cloud to store your data or as a failover option in the case of master failure. There are several cloud providers which allow you to store, manage, retrieve, and...
Comparing Galera Cluster Cloud Offerings: Part Three Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure is known to many as an alternative public cloud platform to Amazon AWS. It's not easy to directly compare these two giant companies. Microsoft's cloud business -- dubbed commercial cloud -- includes everything...
Cloud Vendor Deep-Dive: PostgreSQL on Microsoft Azure
If you have followed Microsoft lately it will come as no surprise that the provider of a competing database product, namely SQL Server, also jumped on the PostgreSQL bandwagon. From releasing 60,000 patents to OIN...
A Guide to Automated Cloud Database Deployments
Complex, inflexible architectures, redundancy and out-of-date technology, are common problems for companies facing data to cloud migration. We look to the “clouds,” hoping that we will find there a magic solution to improve operational speed...
Severalnines and WooServers Bring ClusterControl to Web Hosting
New partnership helps start-ups challenge Google, Amazon and Microsoft Stockholm, Sweden and anywhere else in the world - 07 September 2016 - Severalnines, the provider of database automation and management software for open source databases,...