TeamCity is a continuous integration and continuous delivery server built in Java. It's available as a cloud service and on-premises. As you can imagine, continuous integration and delivery tools are crucial to software development, and their availability...

Redis Sentinel is a dedicated process to automate and simplify the Redis replication failover and switchover. Without Sentinel, you could also manage your Redis replication manually, by using the SLAVEOF or REPLICAOF command. Sentinel requires...

There must be many powerful tools available as a backup and restore option for PostgreSQL in general; Barman, PgBackRest, BART are to name a few in this context. What caught our attention was that Barman...

This past week we debuted a series of videos on database disaster recovery. From basic backup and restore, to switchover & failover, to full cluster-to-cluster replication, these videos show how ClusterControl offers you end-to-end protection...

High availability is paramount in today's business reality. But every service provider comes with an inherited risk of disruption -- and cloud service providers are no different. If they go down, even temporarily, then so...

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...

In case of a database failure, the best case scenario is that you have a good Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) and a highly available environment with an automatic failover process in place. But what happens...

The alarming nature of COVID-19 is being felt globally. Many companies have closed or filed bankruptcy because of the global pandemic.  Most organizations did not see this coming. Large companies have a better chance of...

Previously, we wrote about Setting Up a Geo-Distributed Database Cluster Using MySQL Replication. This time, it's about PostgreSQL. Setting up a geo-distributed cluster for PostgreSQL is not a new concept and the topology is quite...

MySQL slaves may become inconsistent. You can try to avoid it, but it’s really hard. Setting super_read_only and using row-based replication can help a lot, but no matter what you do, it is still possible...

MariaDB has introduced a very cool feature called Flashback. Flashback is a feature that will allow instances, databases or tables to be rolled back to an old snapshot. Traditionally, to perform a point-in-time recovery (PITR),...

ClusterControl is programmed with a number of recovery algorithms to automatically respond to different types of common failures affecting your database systems. It understands different types of database topologies and database-related process management to help...