pghoard Alternatives – PostgreSQL Backup Management with ClusterControl
Managing backups could be a complex and risky task to do in a manual way. You must know that the backup is working according to your backup policy as you don’t want to be in...
MySQL Workbench Alternatives – ClusterControl’s Point-and-Click GUI
Many would agree that having a graphical user interface is more efficient and less prone to human error when managing or administering a system. Graphical user interface (GUI) greatly helps reduce the steep learning curve...
pgDash Diagnostics Alternatives – PostgreSQL Query Management with ClusterControl
Databases are all about queries. You store your data in them and then you have to be able to retrieve it in some way. Here come queries - you write them in some language, structured...
pgAdmin Alternatives – PostgreSQL Database Management GUI ClusterControl
There are many tools used in Database Administration that help simplify the management of open source databases. The advantage of using these types of applications is the availability menus from various objects in the database...
pg_restore Alternatives – PostgreSQL Backup and Automatic Recovery with ClusterControl
While there are various ways to recover your PostgreSQL database, one of the most convenient approaches to restore your data from a logical backup. Logical backups play a significant role for Disaster and Recovery Planning...
proxysql-admin Alternatives – ClusterControl ProxySQL GUI
ProxySQL is a very popular proxy in MySQL environments. It comes with a nice set of features including read/write splitting, query caching and query rewriting. ProxySQL stores its configuration in SQLite database, configuration changes can...
Manage Engine HAProxy Monitoring Alternatives – ClusterControl HAProxy Monitoring
In a previous blog, we looked at the differences between ManageEngine Applications Manager and ClusterControl, examining the main features of each and comparing them. In this blog we will focus on the monitoring of HAProxy,...
pt-query-digest Alternatives – MySQL Query Management & Monitoring with ClusterControl
When your database workload is over stressed, you first want to look at what queries are running in an attempt to see the pattern of the query. Is it write heavy? Read heavy? Where is...
Comparing Amazon RDS Point-in-Time Recovery to ClusterControl
The Amazon Relational Database Service (AWS RDS) is a fully-managed database service which can support multiple database engines. Among those supported are PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB. ClusterControl, on the other hand, is a database management...
MySQL Workbench Alternatives – ClusterControl Database User Management
MySQL user and privilege management is very critical for authentication, authorization and accounting purposes. Since MySQL 8.0, there are now two types of database user privileges: Static privileges - The common global, schema and administrative...
Manage Engine Applications Manager Alternatives – ClusterControl Database Monitoring
If you’re looking for a monitoring system, you probably read about many different options with different features and different costs based on these features. Manage Engine Applications Manager is an application performance management solution that...
MySQL Workbench Alternatives – ClusterControl Configuration Management
MySQL configuration management consists of two major components - MySQL configuration files and runtime configuration. Applying configuration changes on the runtime environment can be done through MySQL server clients with no privilege for session variables...