How to setup and install Elasticsearch: From a single node to a cluster of nodes
Elasticsearch is a complex software incomparable to other mainstream database software, whether it's RDBMS or NoSQL. It functions primarily as your search engine and works as your document database to store valuable data for analytics....
10 Considerations for Architecting a Multi-Cloud Database
Thinking about architecting a multi-cloud database? It’s an increasingly common topology nowadays. The adoption rate of a multi-cloud approach has been growing fast for years. It’s a solid option for a disaster recovery plan (DRP)...
Best Practices for Scaling A Multi-Cloud Database Infrastructure
Scaling a multi-cloud database infrastructure can be a complex and challenging task, but it's essential for businesses that require high scalability, availability, and reliability. With multi-cloud becoming increasingly popular, organizations are leveraging the benefits of...
What’s new in SQL Server 2022
SQL Server 2022 is the latest database version released by Microsoft in November 2022. The release builds upon previous versions to add more choice for SQL Server users when it comes to development languages, data...
High-Availability Openstack on a Shoestring Budget: Deploying a Minimal 3-Node Cluster
As OpenStack deployments mature from evaluation/development to production environments supporting apps and services, high-availability becomes a key requirement. In a previous post, we showed you how to cluster the database backend - which is central to...
ClusterControl 1.2.5 Released
The Severalnines team is pleased to announce the release of ClusterControl 1.2.5. This release contains key new features along with performance improvements and bug fixes. We have outlined some of the key features below. For...
How to Deploy Galera Cluster for MySQL using Docker Containers
Virtual Machines are great, and very useful when trying out new software. However, they might be an unnecessarily heavyweight solution when testing clusters, especially if these consist of multiple nodes running exactly the same software....
Announcing Partnership with Percona
Great news for Percona customers! We are thrilled to announce our partnership with Percona. Effective immediately, Percona customers will be able to enjoy the advanced automation, monitoring and cluster management capabilities of ClusterControl. Percona will...
How to Cluster Liferay with MySQL Galera and Ceph for High Availability and Performance
Liferay is an open-source content management system written in Java. It is used by a number of high traffic sites, as this survey suggests. Clustering Liferay and other components such as the database and the file system...
Webinar Replay: Repair & Recovery for Your MySQL, MariaDB & MongoDB / TokuMX Clusters
Thanks to everyone who attended this week’s webinar; if you missed the sessions or would like to watch the webinar again and browse through the slides, they are now available online. Special thanks to...
Active-Active Alfresco Cluster with MySQL Galera and GlusterFS
Alfresco is a popular collaboration tool available on the open-source market. It is Java based, and has a content repository, web application framework and web content management system. For critical large-scale implementations that require 24*7...
Installing ClusterControl on an Existing MongoDB Replica Set Using a Bootstrap Script
So, your development project has been humming along nicely on MongoDB, until it was time to deploy the application. That's when you called your operations person and things got uncomfortable. NoSQL, document database, collections, replica...
Deploying an Active-Active FreeRadius Cluster with MySQL NDB or Galera
MySQL Cluster is a popular backend for FreeRADIUS, as it provides a scalable backend to store user and accounting data. However, there are situations when the backend database becomes a centralized datastore for additional applications...
Online Schema Upgrade in MySQL Galera Cluster using TOI Method
As a follow-up to the Webinar on Zero Downtime Schema Changes in Galera Cluster, we’ll now walk you through the detailed steps on how to update your schema. The two methods (TOI and RSU) have both...
Webinar Replay: Galera Cluster Best Practices – Zero Downtime Schema Changes
Thanks to everyone who attended yesterday’s webinar; if you missed the sessions or would like to watch the webinar again & browse through the slides, they are now available online. ...
OpenStack Metering: How to Install Ceilometer with MongoDB
According to Wikipedia, a ceilometer is a device that uses a laser or other light source to determine the height of a cloud base. And it is also the name of the framework for...