Improving LLM Fidelity with Retrieval Augmented Generation using pgvector
Large language models (LLMs) have taken the world by storm, wowing us with their ability to generate remarkably human-like text. But for all their prowess, these AI marvels still face major roadblocks – especially when...
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...
Proactive Galera Monitoring (Developer Studio/Advisors angle)
Monitoring is one of the vital parts for many organizations. In fact, there is a role specifically for monitoring purposes. This proves that with proactive monitoring, a lot of things could be achieved including driving...
What’s new in ProxySQL?
Quite recently ProxySQL has changed the way it names new releases. To avoid confusion we’d like to go over it a bit. In the past, we had two branches: 1.4.x and 2.0.x where new features...
DBaaS For the Health Sector
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...
ClusterControl Schema Advisors: Why, When, How?
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...
DBaaS Use Cases in Tech
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: Intro to the New Query Monitor
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,...
Webinar Replay: Top Five Tips to Drive MariaDB Galera Cluster Performance for Nextcloud
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...
No Database Experience? DBaaS can Help!
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...
Redis vs. Memcached From An Administration and Management Perspective
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...
Proactive MySQL Monitoring (Developer Studio/Advisors Angle)
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...
The Elasticity of DBaaS with CCX
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...
Proactive PostgreSQL Monitoring (Developer Studio/Advisors angle)
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...