ClusterControl provides full end-to-end database management & automation for MongoDB 4.2. In this blog, we will show you how you can easily deploy MongoDB 4.2 replicaSet and SharedCluster with ClusterControl 1.7.5

ClusterControl 1.7.5 introduces a new feature, MySQL Freeze Frame, which can be very helpful for DBA's when troubleshooting database crashes. Freeze Frame takes a snapshot of your database right before a failure, providing you with valuable insight.. This blog will show you how to use this feature.

In the new 1.7.5 version, ClusterControl has added support for PostgreSQL 12. It means you can deploy, import, and perform all the well-known management and monitoring tasks that you usually do over this new PostgreSQL version, and even use some of the newly released features. In this blog, we’ll take a look at these features and see how to deploy PostgreSQL 12 with ClusterControl.

Database maintenance can be disruptive to your production environment, and requires careful planning. Failover and recovery needs to be disabled, inconsistent node states should not raise alarms. All this should be planned and scheduled in advance, and it should be easy to report on upcoming maintenance windows. This blog showcases some of the new maintenance mode features that comes with ClusterControl 1.7.5.

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.

Is your database setup SOx compliant? This blog shows some of the concepts and security measures for multinational enterprises and government agencies who are utilizing PostgreSQL.

In this article, we will explain how you can analyze the MySQL database queries workload using pt-query-digest, processlist and more. You will learn how to track database queries and how to find long-running ones.

This blog details steps you can take to improve the performance of your MariaDB database running in a Linux environment. While similar to MySQL, MariaDB is now a standalone database with its own specific needs in regards to performance.

The internet can be a dangerous place for data that isn’t protected. Using a VPN connection is one way to protect your data in transit by encrypting the traffic over the internet. In this blog, you’ll show how to configure an OpenVPN server in a database node running in the cloud, and how to access it using a VPN client.

In this article, we will explain how you can analyze the workload of your MySQL production systems. Then we’ll evaluate a list of fundamental configuration parameters that can help you improve performance. Performance tuning is not trivial, but you can go a long way with a few basic guidelines.

This blog series covers a deployment walkthrough on how to achieve fully encrypted MariaDB server for at-rest and in-transit encryption, to ensure maximum protection of the data from being stolen physically or while transferring and communicating with other hosts. This second part covers encryption of data-at-rest, also known as Transparent Data Encryption (TDE).

This blog series covers a deployment walkthrough on how to achieve fully encrypted MariaDB server for at-rest and in-transit encryption, to ensure maximum protection of the data from being stolen physically or while transferring and communicating with other hosts. This first part covers in-transit encryption for client-server and replication.

ACID is an acronym for Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability.  MongoDB version 4.0 provides multi-document transaction support for replica set deployments and this blog explains how to use them.

This blog provides an overview of the services offered by the cloud provider DigitalOcean for deployment and managing a PostgreSQL database.