Industry News & Events

Oracle recently released MySQL 8.0.22, it included a new asynchronous connection failover mechanism which allows a replica to automatically establish an asynchronous replication connection to a new source, in case its existing one fails. 

ClusterControl 1.8.0 comes with integration with HashiCorp Vault. Vault provides software driven, dynamic security to extra data protection. Here we describe the process of integrating it into ClusterControl

HAProxy is free, open source software that provides a high availability load balancer and proxy server for TCP and HTTP-based applications that spreads requests across multiple servers. In this blog we look at what’s new in it’s latest release.

The new MongoDB 4.4 has several new features and functions, most of which are based on direct feedback from developers and members of the MongoDB community. In this blog we take a look at these new features.

Running your database in the cloud on a DBaaS platform is quickly becoming more and more popular. In this blog we take a look at the major players in the space for open source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB & MongoDB

Organizations around the world were unprepared for COVID-19's impact. Severalnines helps companies stay prepared when crisis strikes with their end-to-end disaster recovery solutions.

MariDB SkySQL is a new DBaaS launched by MariaDB for the users to easily deploy their enterprise edition to the cloud. In this blog we take a look at this new service and what features it offers.

MariaDB recently released the latest version of MariaDB Server. In this blog we will take a look at some of the new features that MariaDB Server 10.5 has to offer and how you can take advantage of them.

While MSSQL is not a traditional noSQL database, it does have the ability to store JSON documents like MongoDB. In this blog we will take a look at both MSSQL & MongoDB and see how they compare.

MongoDB and Cassandra are two of the top NoSQL database stacks today. In this blog we will take a look at the features of both and compare them.

The low-cost, cloud-based solution to backing up open source databases enables startups, small businesses and individual professionals to enjoy enterprise-level peace of mind.

Since PostgreSQL 9.6, it is possible to monitor the progress of running manual VACUUM and autovacuum using a dedicated system catalog. Now PostgreSQL 12 has added support for monitoring the progress of more commands like CLUSTER, VACUUM FULL,CREATE INDEX, and REINDEX. In this blog, we’ll show you how this feature works.

We’re excited to announce the release of ClusterControl 1.7.6 which includes improvements to our cloud deployment GUI allowing you to deploy HAProxy alongside your database cluster. We also feature improvements to our new MySQL Freeze Frame and several improvements for PostgreSQL management.

MongoDB enables Machine Learning with capabilities such as: flexible data model, rich programming, data model, query model and its dynamic nature in terms of schema that make training and using machine learning algorithms much easier than with any traditional, relational databases.

Are you an SysAdmin who is now responsible for your companies database operations? Then this is the webinar for you. Learn from a Senior DBA the basics you need to know to keep things up-and-running and how automation can help.

We wanted to take a moment to address how Severalnines is handling the Covid-19 pandemic. We have employees scattered across 16 countries over 5 continents, this means that some of our employees are at higher risk than others.

PostgreSQL 12 comes with a great new feature called Generated Columns. In this blog, we’ll describe this new feature in detail, show how it works, and how to emulate this in a previous PostgreSQL version.

Percona Server for MongoDB is an enhanced open source and highly scalable database that may act as a compatible drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition but with similar syntax and configuration. In this blog we will discuss the Percona version of MongoDB and how it expands the power of MongoDB in a variety of ways.

This blog provides an overview of the many new features and functions included in MongoDB 4.2

Percona recently conducted a survey of open source database adoption and usage with some interesting findings.  In this blog we take a look at this survey and report on them.

We’re excited to announce the release of ClusterControl 1.7.5 which includes support for PostgreSQL 12, MongoDB 4.2, Centos 8 & Debian 10. It includes new database cluster maintenance functions as well as a new feature called “freeze frame” that snapshots the state of your MySQL instance just prior to a failure.