ClusterControl empowers Quod Financial clients to confidently transition from Oracle RAC to PostgreSQL
As organizations increasingly seek to reduce costs and simplify their IT infrastructure, many are exploring alternatives to systems like Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC). For Quod Financial clients, migrating to open-source solutions like PostgreSQL offers a compelling option. With ClusterControl (CC), businesses can manage this transition with confidence, leveraging a powerful tool to streamline the migration process, enhance performance, and reduce the complexities of database management.
Background
Quod Financial, a global provider of multi-asset OMS/EMS trading technology, empowers buy-side and sell-side institutions with data-driven tools to optimize trading performance and execution quality. Their award-winning front-to-middle-office trading platform forms the backbone of trading desk operations and client order flow, making maximum uptime essential for workflows and applications that react to real-time market conditions.
Challenge
Facing persistent challenges with disk storage, errors, and escalating costs with Oracle, some Quod Financial clients migrated to PostgreSQL. This move highlighted the need for an orchestration platform that could enhance their PostgreSQL environment by providing high availability and automating routine lifecycle operations.
While creating a custom in-house solution for PostgreSQL’s high availability was technically feasible, it posed challenges around the visibility and user-friendliness needed for efficient cluster management. The risks associated with rebuilding nodes and potential data loss made this approach less practical. Moreover, forked versions of PostgreSQL presented additional issues, such as unreliable failover and a heavy reliance on manual intervention, which did not align with the high availability requirements of Quod Financial’s clients.
“Most open-source third-party solutions available only provided basic automatic failover, with the best I achieved being a 12-second delay between master failure and slave promotion. Everything else required extensive manual intervention, like recovery and slave rebuilding, which isn’t sustainable for a high-availability solution. Even with automation scripts, it was a risk we weren’t willing to take.” – Sébastien Loos, Head of IT.
After evaluating several alternatives, none offered the high availability and comprehensive capabilities Quod Financial clients need for seamless day-two operations management.
Solution
“The choice to go with ClusterControl was easy due to its user-friendly interface, reliability, and automatic failover and recovery capabilities that require no manual intervention.” – Sébastien Loos, Head of IT.
Quod Financial quickly identified ClusterControl as the ideal solution to manage open-source database clusters. With open-source technology at the core of their software stack—from the OS to third-party applications—ClusterControl supported the move to PostgreSQL by offering automated failover, recovery, and management of clusters through an intelligent platform.
Outcome
ClusterControl became a key part of Quod Finanial’s open-source strategy for several key reasons:
- Comprehensive database lifecycle automation: ClusterControl serves as a dependable “teammate”, reducing issues and simplifying the operation and maintenance of open-source databases.
- Enhanced database cluster availability: With ClusterControl, the team gains “peace of mind,” benefiting from advanced monitoring, failover, and auto-recovery, ensuring the stability of workflows and applications.
- Optimized IT resource allocation: ClusterControl has unlocked IT resources for value-added initiatives, potentially reducing hardware requirements and costs.
In conclusion, ClusterControl supported Quod Financial’s clients in the transition to PostgreSQL, helping to enhance database management capabilities, ensure the high availability of open-source database clusters, and potentially reduce costs.
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Summary
Embracing an open-source database strategy
To reduce hardware demands, costs, and the complexities associated with Oracle, some Quod Financial clients transitioned to open-source database technologies.
Key facilitator in their Oracle-to-open-source migration
ClusterControl was selected to streamline operations management, providing high availability and fast failover capabilities at a fraction of Oracle’s licensing costs.
Standardizing database operations
ClusterControl’s intelligent orchestration platform and automation capabilities have simplified the management of daily lifecycle operations.
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