High availability is a must when you run critical services in your production environment. It can be achieved by eliminating all single points of failures, including the database tier. So you can imagine our surprise...

Monitoring is the base to know if your systems are working properly, and it allows you to fix or prevent any issue before affecting your business. Even in a robust technology like PostgreSQL, monitoring is...

ProxySQL is a dedicated load balancer for MySQL which comes with a variety of features including, but not limited to query redirecting, query caching or traffic shaping. It can be used to easily set up...

A database load balancer, or proxy, is a middleware service between application layer and database layer. Application connects to the database proxy, and the proxy forwards the connection to the database. There are some benefits...

MySQL 8.0 has been available for a while and Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0 has also been available for some time as well. Also, MySQL 5.6 is coming up to its End-of-Life and people using PXC...

Among the many innovations introduced by cloud computing, the database-as-a-service model has a number of advantages that are too beneficial to ignore. PRESS RELEASE STOCKHOLM, October 12, 2020: Severalnines, a pioneer in providing automation and...

There are different reasons for upgrading your databases. It could be to apply security fixes, to use new features, solve compatibility issues, or just to keep your system up-to-date. This upgrade can be a major...

Percona XtraDB Cluster based on MySQL 8.0 has been out there for some time, so it’s not surprising more and more people are attempting to migrate into it. You may wonder how to approach this...

ClusterControl is an automation tool for managing open source databases. It supports various databases such as  MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Timescale, and MongoDB. It is used to handle the full “deploy, monitor, and scale” cycle of...

Load balancing increases system performance, especially from the application standpoint, allowing several computers to serve the same data. It works such that the load is being distributed among client queries to replica nodes aside from...

Scalability is the property of a system to handle a growing amount of demands by adding resources. The reasons for this amount of demands could be temporary, for example, if you are launching a discount...

The security is paramount nowadays, especially for the organizations that deal with the sensitive data - financial, health, personal data. In those cases you are obliged to comply with numerous security and data protection standards...