MySQL

As the great database wars rage some users may be considering whether to use the new document storage features of MySQL 8.0 instead of the traditional MongoDB NoSQL setup. This blog explains why Mongo is still the king of the NoSQL world.

Reporting and analytics is a common requirement, but should you run it on your production database? For Galera Cluster, heavy OLAP queries may interfere with the performance of regular OLTP operations. In this blog post, we’ll describe an easy way to offload OLAP workload from Galera Cluster to asynchronous replication slave.

Columnar data stores provide much better performance for analytics queries than regular relational databases like MySQL. ClickHouse is an example of such datastore, queries that take minutes to execute in MySQL would take less than a second instead. In this blog post we show how to tackle the challenge of replicating the data from MySQL to ClickHouse.

Migrating from Oracle RDBMS to MySQL/Percona Server is an enormous task. This blog offers a basic guide to migration, especially if you're coming from Oracle and have limited knowledge of MySQL. The blog does not offer a step-by-step process, but it provides general information of what you should consider before a migration from Oracle to MySQL/Percona Server.

Database migrations are a pain. They often require maintenance windows and can be a cause of downtime. In this blog, we will see how we can migrate a MySQL database from Amazon EC2 to an on-premise datacenter without any downtime whatsoever.

Keeping track of the state of your production databases is crucial for performance and availability. There are a number of database monitoring tools on the market, and MySQL Enterprise Monitor is probably one of the older ones. Let’s take a look at what MySQL Enterprise Monitor can do for us.

Supporting different types of databases in a mixed environment is not an easy task. In this blog post we will compare different types of RDBMS systems from the DBA/DevOps administration perspective.

Please meet SCUMM - Severalnines CMON Unified Monitoring and Management - our agent-based monitoring infrastructure, which is the cornerstone of our latest ClusterControl release.

This blog provides a quick reference for DBAs and SysAdmins who are either new to MySQL or MongoDB with regards to the terms and commands available within the database and how they compare with one another.

Restoring backups on newly deployed clusters can be time consuming. There are a number of procedures and checks to go through, and it is a task that lends itself to automation. This blog post shows you how to automate the entire process and deliver improvements in terms of speed, efficiency and cost.

Making sure the right people have access to your MySQL data is very important. This blog shares what has changed with user management in MySQL 8.0.

MySQL 8.0 features a lot of great improvements, comprehensive support for technologies, and most importantly, its enhanced performance under high read/write workloads. In this blog, we’ll have a look at how MySQL 8.0 performs as compared to its predecessor MySQL 5.7.

Migrating ClusterControl to new hardware used to be a pain - you had to reinstall it on the new server, restore configuration/metadata from the old one and redo database grants so the new server can access your managed databases. Not any more! Starting with 1.7.1, it is possible to backup the ClusterControl server in one command and restore it on a new server, with data, grants and all.  This blog shows you how to do this using the s9s CLI.

This blog post explains a number of ways to improve performance of ClusterControl and its components.

There is a lot information on the traffic that is routed through HAProxy, as well as the state of the backends. This blog post discusses different HAProxy metrics, which ClusterControl collects and presents in the agent-based monitoring mode with Prometheus.

This blog provides an overview of the next iteration of the agent-based monitoring features for MySQL, Galera Cluster, PostgreSQL and ProxySQL in ClusterControl with its 1.7.1 release, support for PostgreSQL 11 and MongoDB 4.0, as well as a whole range of new monitoring and backup management features for PostgreSQL … and more.

You would be surprised by the number of MySQL installations running default configurations, regardless of the workload. However, what works well for a read-intensive workload might not work as well for a write-intensive one. Configuration parameters also need to take into account the underlying hardware. This cheat sheet provides some quick tips on how to tune some of the key MySQL variables in order to improve performance.

Read about 2018 at Severalnines: from our top achievements of the year via our year-end video all the way through to our most read and watched content for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL & MongoDB users.

This blog details MySQL’s accomplishments in 2018, including the release of MySQL 8.0 which includes changes to roles and the integration of NoSQL.

This blog compares MySQL replication vs Oracle Data Guard solution for High Availability.

The database industry has completely changed in the past two decades - from closed source to open source first, single instances to distributed clusters, polyglot environments and increasingly automated operational systems that are slowly but surely taking over the common core tasks of the DBA.

This blog discusses this industry shift.