If you are a database administrator, you probably already know just how useful database-as-a-service (DBaaS) solutions can be. DBaaS comes with operation automation, advanced traffic control, and, often, high availability. DBaaS solutions can be applicable...

If you’re a database administrator, your database schema is probably one of the primary things you keep a watchful eye on. However, database schema design consists of many different things, and as a database administrator...

Databases are not a new thing, especially in the tech industry. With the rise of their use, databases are used left, right and centre: services like ClusterControl by Severalnines can help you with the backup and management...

ClusterControl 1.9.0 was released on July 16th 2021 with a lot of new features introduced to the system. Those features include Redis Management and Monitoring, a new agent-based Query Monitoring system for MySQL and PostgreSQL,...

Are you a MariaDB database administrator that is facing problems regarding your Galera Cluster implementations? Perhaps you even tried to make it work in harmony with Nextcloud? If you have answered “yes” to any of...

Chances are, you might find yourself working with databases sooner than you think. Most people would probably assume that those people working with databases have some experience as database administrators beforehand, or perhaps they were...

If you Google around, it is trivial to find the comparison between Redis versus Memcached as shown here, here, here and here. In this blog post, we will do a similar comparison between Redis and...

Monitoring your MySQL database proactively is imperative nowadays. It plays a crucial and significant part for managing and controlling your database especially for your production-grade clusters. Missing specific information that would be beneficial for improving...

Elasticity is a big thing for software. Elasticity, as far as software is concerned, refers to the ability to adapt to workload changes in an elastic manner, meaning that elastic software is able to quickly...

Monitoring is a way to know if your systems are working properly. Even when using a robust technology like PostgreSQL, it is important to have a good monitoring system that allows you to prevent issues...

There are a bunch of database-as-a-service (DBaaS) solutions out there. Some of them are good, some better than others, some popular, some less so. In this blog post we will go through a bunch of...

So far in the previous two parts of this short blog series we have discussed several options that may impact the time and size of the backup. We have discussed different compression options and a...