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ClusterControl is all about delivering robust, open source, database management for the IT management needs of our clients. This goal drives us every day, so much so that it lead us to receive two awards recently from CompareCamp: the Rising Star of 2019 Award and the Great User Experience Award.

New in MySQL Galera Cluster 4.0, Streaming Replication allows you to now replicate large write-sets, which is perfect for bulk inserts or loading data to your database. In the second part we will show you how to enable Streaming Replication and what the results could look like when you use it.

New in MySQL Galera Cluster 4.0, Streaming Replication allows you to now replicate large write-sets, which is perfect for bulk inserts or loading data to your database. In the first part of this blog we will tell you about this new feature and how you can use it.

PostgreSQL 12 is now available with notable improvements to query performance. In this blog we’ll take a look at these new features and show you how to get and install this new PostgreSQL 12 version. We’ll also explore some considerations to take into account when upgrading.

Severalnines is excited to launch our newest product Backup Ninja. Currently in beta, Backup Ninja is a simple, secure, and cost-effective SaaS service you can use to backup the world’s most popular open source databases; locally or in the cloud.

MySQL Galera Cluster 4.0 is the new kid on the database block with very interesting new features. Currently it is available only as a part of MariaDB 10.4 but in the future it will work as well with MySQL 5.6, 5.7 and 8.0. In this blog post we would like to go over some of the new features that came along with Galera Cluster 4.0.

Ever wondered where to start learning to get trained in PostgreSQL? In this blog we will walk you through all the official PostgreSQL community resources and everything you need to become a PostgreSQL expert.

Is the future of database management autonomous? Oracle has developed the world’s first Autonomous Database, which guarantees to cut your cloud services bill by more than half. In fact, it’s the cheapest database on the market today. In this blog we explore the ideas behind autonomous databases and how they may affect your infrastructure.

Autonomous Database eliminates complexity, human error, and manual management, helping to ensure higher reliability, security, and more operational efficiency at the lowest cost.

ClusterControl 1.7.3 includes improvements to PostgreSQL support including the ability to run multiple instances on a single host. It also includes support for new point-and-click cloud deployments to the top three cloud providers.

This blog is about Database diagram tools for PostgreSQL. It summarizes the main features, OS dependency, PostgreSQL version support and licensing information of the diagram tools suggested by the PostgreSQL community.

This blog provides an overview of the new features and functions of MariaDB Cluster 10.4. Based on Galera Cluster from Codership, MariaDB Cluster is a synchronous multi-master database cluster that runs on Linux.

MariaDB 10.4 will soon be released as production-ready. In this blog post, we’ll go through some of the most important features that MariaDB 10.4 will bring to us.

In the new time-series database world, TimescaleDB and InfluxDB are two popular options with fundamentally different architectures. One is based off a relational database, PostgreSQL, the other build as a NoSQL engine. In this blog, we’ll give you a short description of those two, and how they stack against each other.

ProxySQL 2.0 has been released recently with quite a few interesting features, including causal reads, SSL for frontend connections and native support for Galera Cluster. In this blog post, we will explore these new features.

ClusterControl 1.7.2 includes support for TimescaleDB, MySQL 8.0 and Maxscale 2.2 as well as improved support for PostgreSQL monitoring & backups. It also launches two new features, CC Spotlight (a new search tool) and CMON HA (distributed fault-tolerant controllers).

Choosing which DB engine to use between all the options we have today is not an easy task. An that is just the beginning. After deciding which engine to use, you need to learn about it and actually deploy it to play with it. In this whitepaper we’ll show you how to install, configure and secure some of the most popular open source DB engines.

Couchbase was designed as a masterless, clustered, and replicated distributed database with the consistent seamless user experience. In this blog, we will take a look at Couchbase architecture principles.

This blog provides a high-level look at databases and the telecommunications industry as well as provides examples of the challenges of three ClusterControl users who are in the space.

This whitepaper covers information about MySQL Replication, with information about the latest features introduced in 5.6, 5.7 and 8.0. There is also a more hands-on, practical section on how to quickly deploy and manage a replication setup using ClusterControl.

eCommerce is a continually growing market, but with the explosive growth comes challenges when managing the databases.  In this blog we look at three of our ClusterControl users and how they have tackled some of these challenges.