A database load balancer, or proxy, is a middleware service between application layer and database layer. Application connects to the database proxy, and the proxy forwards the connection to the database. There are some benefits...

Large organizations that are using MySQL or MariaDB database platforms are often faced with a need to perform a database migration from one place to another. Regardless of the platform, type of database software (such...

Migrating your database to a new datacenter can be a high-risk and time-consuming process. A database contains state, and can be much harder to migrate as compared to web servers, queues or cache servers. In...

Percona Server for MongoDB is a MongoDB open source distribution powered by Percona. It is a free, fully compatible and drop in replacement for MongoDB Community edition. It also provides “enterprise grade” features that would...

MySQL 8.0 has been available for a while and Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0 has also been available for some time as well. Also, MySQL 5.6 is coming up to its End-of-Life and people using PXC...

There are different reasons for upgrading your databases. It could be to apply security fixes, to use new features, solve compatibility issues, or just to keep your system up-to-date. This upgrade can be a major...

Percona XtraDB Cluster based on MySQL 8.0 has been out there for some time, so it’s not surprising more and more people are attempting to migrate into it. You may wonder how to approach this...

MariaDB 10.5 was released as GA in June 2020. In the release, there has been added support for Amazon S3 or any third-party public or private cloud that supports S3 API. It also features sophisticated...

ClusterControl is an automation tool for managing open source databases. It supports various databases such as  MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Timescale, and MongoDB. It is used to handle the full “deploy, monitor, and scale” cycle of...

The most intuitive database upgrade way that you can think of is to generate a replica in a new version and perform a failover of the application into it, and actually it works perfectly in...

MySQL 8.0 has been with us already for quite some time and many MySQL users have already upgraded to this version. For those who are still using older MySQL versions, we would like to present...

MaxScale 2.4 was released on December 21st, 2019, and ClusterControl 1.7.6 supports the monitoring and managing up to this version. However, for deployment, ClusterControl only supports up to version 2.3. One has to manually upgrade...