Once you have your database infrastructure up-and-running, you’ll need to keep tabs on what’s happening. Monitoring is a must if you want to be sure everything is going fine or if you might need to...

We recently ran into an interesting customer support case involving a MariaDB replication setup. We spent a lot of time researching this problem and thought it would be worth sharing this with you in this...

A disaster usually causes an outage, which can result in system downtime and potential loss of business-critical data. Once a blackout is detected, we trigger our disaster recovery plan to recover from it. But it...

ClusterControl is all about delivering robust, open source, database management for the IT management needs of our clients. This goal drives us every day, so much so that it lead us to receive two awards...

ClusterControl consists of a number of components and one of the most important ones is the ClusterControl UI. This is the web application through which the user interacts with other backend ClusterControl components like controller,...

With the technology available today there is no excuse for failing to recover your data due to lack of backup policies or understanding of how vital it is to take backups as part of your...

ClusterControl is programmed with a number of recovery algorithms to automatically respond to different types of common failures affecting your database systems. It understands different types of database topologies and database-related process management to help...

Vendor lock-in is a well-known concept for database technologies. With cloud usage increasing, this lock-in has also expanded to include cloud providers. We can define vendor lock-in as a proprietary lock-in that makes a customer...

High Availability is a requirement for just about every company around the world using PostgreSQL It is well known that PostgreSQL uses Streaming Replication as the replication method. PostgreSQL Streaming Replication is asynchronous by default,...

In the previous blog we showed you how to set up an environment in Amazon AWS EC2 that consists of a Percona Server 8.0 Replication Cluster (in Master - Slave topology). We deployed ProxySQL and...

We have previously blogged about What’s New in MySQL Galera Cluster 4.0, Handling Large Transactions with Streaming Replication and MariaDB 10.4 and presented some guides about using the new Streaming Replication feature in a part...

As we recently announced, ClusterControl 1.7.4 has a new feature called Cluster-to-Cluster Replication. It allows you to have a replication running between two autonomous clusters. For more detailed information please refer to the above mentioned...