Migrating from Oracle database to MariaDB can come with a number of benefits: lower cost of ownership, access to and use of an open source database engine, tight integration with the web, an active community...

Thanks to everyone who joined our first webinar of 2019! Our colleague Sebastian Insausti walked us through all the ins and outs of how to automate and manage PostgreSQL with ClusterControl! You can now watch...

SCUMM (Severalnines ClusterControl Unified Monitoring & Management) is an agent-based solution with agents installed on the database nodes. It provides a set of monitoring dashboards, that have Prometheus as the data store with its elastic...

You may have heard about MariaDB TX and you may have wondered what it is? Is there a difference between it and MariaDB Server 10.3? In this blog post we would like to give you...

I’d like to take advantage of the quiet days between holidays to look back on 2018 at Severalnines as we continue to advance automation and management of the world’s most popular open source databases: MySQL,...

Not so long ago, the database industry consisted of a handful of vendors. Databases were mainly relational, and ran on single machines. High availability was implemented via active-standby ‘clusters’. With a vertical ’scale-up’ model, it...

As we wrap up 2018 and prepare for 2019 we decided it was time to take a moment and pause to think about the changes that have been happening over the past year and what...

If you’re looking at minimizing downtime and meet your SLAs through an automated or semi-automated approach, then this webinar replay is for you: A detailed overview of what failover processes may look like in MySQL,...

As you may know in all the versions up to PostgreSQL 10, it was not possible to create a procedure in PostgreSQL. In PostgreSQL 11, PROCEDURE was added as a new schema object which is...

PostgreSQL 11 was released on October 10th, 2018, and on schedule, marking the 23rd anniversary of the increasingly popular open source database. While a complete list of changes is available in the usual Release Notes,...

I spent a week in the magnificent city of Lisbon attending the annual European PostgeSQL Conference. This marked the 10th anniversary since the first European PostgreSQL conference and my sixth time attending. First Impressions The...

Severalnines was pleased to yet again sponsor Percona Live Europe which was held this year in Frankfurt, Germany. Thanks to the Percona Team for having us and the great organisation. At the Conference Severalnines team...