The Benefits of Running Your Own Private DBaaS
Your organization is in a place where you are considering different options to quickly deploy your databases. Maybe you have multiple internal customers in product teams that want to be able to setup their environments...
Advantages and Disadvantages of Using a DBaaS
In this blog, we are going to dive into the advantages and disadvantages of using a DBaaS. DBaaS is a component of a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), which is essentially a platform built allowing customers to easily...
Best DBaaS Solution for MySQL
As the most popular open source database, MySQL has been implemented in many places, from small startups to very large organizations. Use cases vary from simple website applications to mission critical environments with 99.999% uptime...
What is Hyperconvergence in a Private Cloud?
In recent years, the term "hyper-convergence" has emerged and steadily disrupting the enterprise IT markets with its extreme simplicity. Old-fashioned solutions are being challenged all over the enterprise world by a new breed of intelligent...
How to Achieve High Availability with a DBaaS Provider
One of the responsibilities of a Cloud Provider who offers a DBaaS (Database as a Service) solution is to give you a way to achieve High Availability without using a different provider. The main advantage...
Avoiding Cloud Lock-in with a DBaaS Provider
As companies move more of their infrastructure to the cloud, they become increasingly reliant on cloud vendors. From an engineering perspective, IT’s focus is on building solutions for the business and ensuring a fast rollout...
The Top Five DBaaS Providers for Open Source Databases
These are, in our opinion, the top five DBaaS providers on the market. Each provides support for various types of open source databases. It is inevitable that the cloud tech giants (e.g. Amazon, Google, and...
Common Mistakes Made When Building an On-Premises Private Cloud Infrastructure
A private cloud is a scalable hosting solution that provides agility and redundancy of IT infrastructure for your enterprise. Private cloud solutions are suitable for enterprises that have large compute and storage requirements, need to...
Things to Consider When Building an Internal or Private DBaaS
In one of the previous blogs we discussed a possible DBaaS environment built with ClusterControl as the deployment and management platform for the databases. Today we would like to take a closer look at that...
Understanding the DBaaS Architecture
What is a DBaaS? The current trend for DBaaS or Database-as-a-Service and its terminology have grown so much that even its nomenclature also are termed as a cloud database or a managed-service database service. Technically...
How to Build Your Own Object Storage using MinIO
Object storage is a strategy to store data in an object format. The objects have a unique identifier and a set of metadata to describe it. Unlike block storage, object storage does not use any...
Building Your Own Private DBaaS with ClusterControl
As we explained in one of our blogs, DBaaS are powerful tools for the users that require a database for their purposes. This can be a developer that spins up database clusters for their applications,...