The Importance of Failover Failover is one of the most important database practices for database governance. It’s useful not only when managing large databases in production, but also if you want to be sure that...

One of the most popular ways in achieving high availability for MySQL is replication. Replication has been around for many years, and became much more stable with the introduction of GTIDs. But even with these...

Managing multiple open source database technologies in any environment can be a daunting task, especially if you have fewer resources. The scenario could be worse if deployment, monitoring, and other database management tasks are done manually....

Modern apps like microservices typically require a lot of database connections, they also use and release those connections very quickly. When PostgreSQL was developed almost 25 years ago, its developers decided not to use threads...

This blog post is a continuation of the previous part 1, where we have covered the basics of SNMP integration with ClusterControl. In this blog post, we are going to focus on SNMP traps and...

ClusterControl comes with a number of distinctive alerts (or alarms) which you won't find in other monitoring systems. ClusterControl understands a database cluster topology as a whole - all database nodes and the relation between...

Performance is always important in any system. You will need to make good use of the available resources to ensure the best response time possible and there are different ways to do this. Every connection...

PostgreSQL is one of the databases that can be deployed via ClusterControl, along with MySQL, MariaDB and MongoDB. ClusterControl not only simplifies the deployment of the database cluster, but has a function for scalability in...

In the world of information technology, automation is not a new thing for most of us. In fact, most organizations are using it for various purposes depending on their work type and objectives. For example,...

Join us for this webinar on Tips to Drive MariaDB Galera Cluster Performance for Nextcloud. The webinar features Björn Schiessle, Co-Founder and Pre-sales lead at Nextcloud, and Ashraf Sharif, senior support engineer at Severalnines. They...

One of the biggest concerns when managing a database is the size and complexity of its data. As the size of the database increases, you need to have a plan in place for how to...

This blog post is the third part of the series of blogs about indexes in MySQL. In the second part of the blog post series about MySQL indexes, we covered indexes and storage engines and touched upon some...