We’re happy to announce our partnership with Safespring to offer PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Galera Cluster, and Redis as services on their OpenStack-based public cloud. Because of the business risks it poses, one significant area of...

Managing big data can be very taxing and stressful, especially when speed, reliability, scalability, and high availability are requirements for your organization. Your traditional, orthodox databases cannot provide the types of blazing speeds required to...

What if there were a new way to do DBaaS that allowed you to reliably scale your open-source database ops without being limited to a specific environment or ceding control of your infrastructure to third-party...

Have you ever wondered what products MariaDB Enterprise has to offer? Is it different from MariaDB Community? Can I manage them with ClusterControl? MariaDB provides two distributions of their software — Enterprise and Community. The...

According to StackOverflow, PostgreSQL is the most popular open-source database, with more and more developers and administrators wanting to work with it. PostgreSQL 14, the latest version released in September 2021, has more than 200...

Information Technology is the cornerstone of all our businesses in the modern, technology-driven world we live in today. For databases that need to be continuously available to applications, it all comes down to Recovery Time...

Database high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) are critical for any organization. There is essential work to be done to ensure that online services and applications always have access to data in order to...

The SQL Server on Linux release is a milestone for the open-source world, particularly for those organizations that run their entire business on Linux but want to use SQL Server. It now means they can...

It’s an understatement to say that we’re very excited to announce our first release of 2022 — ClusterControl 1.9.2! This release supports high-availability SQL Server 2019 clusters, SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol), new versions of...

When it comes to managing database systems, one crucial aspect is database security. The failure to lay a good foundation for security for any database system may result in a data breach whereby a third-party...

In recent years, data encryption has gained popularity as one of the most effective methods for securing data within organizations. Data encryption works by converting data into an unreadable format - called ciphertext - thus...

In a previous article, SQL Server On Linux Installation and Configuration, we walked through how to install SQL Server Linux on Ubuntu 20.04. SQL Server Linux 2017 and 2019 support Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions...