Sysbench is a great tool to generate test data and perform MySQL OLTP benchmarks. Commonly, one would do a prepare-run-cleanup cycle when performing benchmark using Sysbench. By default, the table generated by Sysbench is a...

In the era that we are living in now, anything with a less secure environment is easily a target for an attack and becomes a bounty for the attackers. Compared to the past 20 years,...

Last week, we discussed how to configure AppArmor for MongoDB Replica Sets which basically has the same concepts applicable when configuring this for your MySQL-based systems. Indeed, security is very important because you have to...

Data is the most important asset in a company, so you should take all the security considerations into account in your database to keep it as safe as possible. One important security feature on RedHat-based...

Redis Sentinel is a dedicated process to automate and simplify the Redis replication failover and switchover. Without Sentinel, you could also manage your Redis replication manually, by using the SLAVEOF or REPLICAOF command. Sentinel requires...

In the first part of this blog, we mentioned some important concepts related to a good PostgreSQL replication environment. Now, let’s see how to combine all these things together in an easy way using ClusterControl....

High availability is a must these days and ClusterControl performs a key role in ensuring that your database clusters will stay up and running. On the other hand, how can we ensure that ClusterControl itself...

The Importance of Failover Failover is one of the most important database practices for database governance. It’s useful not only when managing large databases in production, but also if you want to be sure that...

One of the most popular ways in achieving high availability for MySQL is replication. Replication has been around for many years, and became much more stable with the introduction of GTIDs. But even with these...

Once you see that your database environment has issues, you are in trouble. Maybe one of your replicas is out or maybe you are experiencing a significant increase in the load across your databases that...

Managing multiple open source database technologies in any environment can be a daunting task, especially if you have fewer resources. The scenario could be worse if deployment, monitoring, and other database management tasks are done manually....

Modern apps like microservices typically require a lot of database connections, they also use and release those connections very quickly. When PostgreSQL was developed almost 25 years ago, its developers decided not to use threads...