Database - General

Failing to properly secure your MongoDB database infrastructure could be catastrophic for your business. In this post, we review the best practices for improving MongoDB security.

Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) in SQL Server is essential to encrypting data at rest without any changes to application code. In this guide, learn everything you need to know to set it up for SQL Server on Linux.

Learn everything you need to know to efficiently and quickly install SQL Server 2019 Linux on RedHat in this walkthrough.

Command-line installation of SQL Server on Linux might not be straightforward for DBAs working mostly on Windows. In this blog, we will tell you how you can easily install it via the ClusterControl GUI.

Ready to continue your journey into SQL Server? In this post, we’ll walk through SQL Server Linux  installation and configuration on Ubuntu 20.0. We’ll also cover installing client tools - SQLCMD to connect and query databases.

In this blog post, we will take a look at database instances from a different side: we will figure out what you can do to prepare your databases for the load that comes with everybody staying at home due to COVID.

What are the pros and cons of running Microsoft SQL Server on Linux, as opposed to running it on Windows? This article looks more closely at how SQL Server 2019 edition compares when running on Linux vs Windows operating systems.

Can SQL Server run on Linux? The answer is yes! In this blog we will get an overview of SQL Server on Linux.

ClusterControl will soon support SQL Server 2019 on Ubuntu 20.4 and CentOS 8. Find out everything you need to know about the upcoming release in this post.

In this blog post, we will discuss one of the common errors in MySQL, the reason why it happens as well as some tips on troubleshooting this.

This blog is a comparison between Redis and DynamoDB and when shall you choose the other one and when it is applicable.

Are you a MariaDB DBA? This webinar replay is for you! If you have missed it, we have taken a look into the top five tips that you can use to improve MariaDB Galera Cluster performance for Nextcloud. Tune in!

In this blog post, we will compare Redis and Memcached from the administration and management point of view.

Two of the most popular NoSQL databases supported by ClusterControl are MongoDB and Redis. How they come into existence and gain attraction, popularity and changing the landscape of the database management system is the primary essence of this blog post.

In this blog post, we are going to walk you through the deployment of a cluster of two MariaDB shards using ClusterControl. We are going to deploy a handful of MariaDB servers (for redundancy and availability) to host a partitioned table based on a range of a selected shard key.

In this blog post, we will go through key-value stores, the advantages & disadvantages, some of the use cases as well as some of the examples or providers for key-value stores/databases.

Redis has been in existence for more than 12 years. It has been applied in a wide-array of applications and its use cases have been well tested for where  it is ample and sufficient to amplify the requirements of the applications. From web solutions, analytics, cloud solutions, corporate services, ad techs, IoTs, and enterprise services. This blog will cover where this database can be useful and where it is applicable and why you need to use it other than using existing mainstream databases such as the most common RDBMS or NoSQL ones.

In this blog post we go through an overview of different backup tools available when using Redis.

The SELinux enforcing mode requires some configuration on the MongoDB installation in order to run properly at the same time the enhanced security is applied. In this blog post, we will go through the steps to configure SELinux for MongoDB replica sets.

ClusterControl offers you a different approach of managing databases which can not be observed and experienced in other platforms. It can be deployed on-prem, on the cloud, or on a containerized type of environment. It can be deployed flexibly and has a massive feature that offers rich and powerful operations that makes it easier to manage your database and without requiring you to create your automated scripts. ClusterControl will handle this for you as shown by this blog. This blog showcases how it is feasible to manage multiple database technologies with ClusterControl.

There are many questions regarding database performance, including its definition, measurement metrics and performance assessment and improvement. This blog attempts to answer the trivial questions on measuring database performance and how to improve it.