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May 10, 2021

New User and LDAP Management in ClusterControl 1.8.2

After upgrading to ClusterControl 1.8.2, you should get the following notification banner: What's up with that? It is a depreciation notice of the current user management system in favor of the new user management system...

October 29, 2020

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...

October 28, 2020

Migrating Google Cloud SQL for MySQL to an On-Prem Server

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...

October 27, 2020

Top Open Source Tools for PostgreSQL Migrations

Database migration is the process of migrating data from one or more source databases to one or more target databases by using a service or tool. There are different types of migrations. You can migrate...

October 20, 2020

Top Open Source Tools for MySQL & MariaDB Migrations

Large organizations that are using MySQL or MariaDB database platforms are often faced with a need to perform a database migration from one place to another. Regardless of the platform, type of database software (such...

October 19, 2020

Live Migrations Using MySQL Replication

Migrating your database to a new datacenter can be a high-risk and time-consuming process. A database contains state, and can be much harder to migrate as compared to web servers, queues or cache servers. In...

January 21, 2020

Moving from MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8.0 – What You Should Know

April 2018 is not just a date for the MySQL world. MySQL 8.0 was released there, and more than 1 year after, it’s probably time to consider migrating to this new version. MySQL 8.0 has...

November 25, 2019

Top Ten Reasons to Migrate from Oracle to PostgreSQL

Oracle Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) has been widely used by large organizations and is considered by far to be the most advanced database technology available in the market. It’s typically the most often compared...

November 12, 2019

Avoiding Database Vendor Lock-In for MySQL or MariaDB

Vendor lock-in is defined as "Proprietary lock-in or customer lock-in, which makes a customer dependent on a vendor for their products and services; unable to use another vendor without substantial cost" (wikipedia). Undeniably for many...

November 5, 2019

Tips for Migrating from Proprietary to Open Source Databases

Back in the day proprietary databases were the only acceptable options.  “No one ever got fired for buying from Oracle/Microsoft/IBM” was the saying.  Huge, monolithic databases used for every single purpose. Paid support - that’s how...

August 7, 2019

MySQL Load Balancing: Migrating ProxySQL from On-Prem to AWS EC2

Migrations between different environments are uncommon in database world. Migrations from one provider to another one. Moving from one datacenter to another. All of this happens on a regular basis. Organisations search for expense reduction,...

June 19, 2019

Migrating from MySQL Enterprise to MariaDB 10.3

While it shares the same heritage with MySQL, MariaDB is a different database. Over the years as new versions of MySQL and MariaDB were released, both projects have differed into two different RDBMS platforms. MariaDB...

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