Previously, we wrote about Setting Up a Geo-Distributed Database Cluster Using MySQL Replication. This time, it's about PostgreSQL. Setting up a geo-distributed cluster for PostgreSQL is not a new concept and the topology is quite...

There are different reasons for adding a load balancer between your application and your database. If you have high traffic (and you want to balance the traffic between different database nodes) or you want to...

Curious how ClusterControl can help you design and implement environment agnostic deployment patterns? Join our final webinar of 2025! One of the most common InnoDB errors is InnoDB lock wait timeout exceeded, for example: SQLSTATE[HY000]:...

MySQL slaves may become inconsistent. You can try to avoid it, but it’s really hard. Setting super_read_only and using row-based replication can help a lot, but no matter what you do, it is still possible...

Database security requires careful planning, but it is important to remember that security is not a state, it is a process. Once the database is in place, monitoring, alerting and reporting on changes are an...

A single point of failure (SPOF)  is a common reason why organizations are working towards distributing the presence of their database environments to another location geographically. It's part of the Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity...

Curious how ClusterControl can help you design and implement environment agnostic deployment patterns? Join our final webinar of 2025! If you have a PostgreSQL cluster up-and-running, and you need to handle data that changes with...

PostgreSQL Streaming Replication is a great way of scaling PostgreSQL clusters and doing it adds high availability to them. As with every replication, the idea is that the slave is a copy of the master...

PostgreSQL is designed to handle multiple threads, such as query parallelism, or deploying worker threads to handle specific tasks based on the assigned values in the configuration. But, sometimes replication lag  and other issues can...

One of the key factors of a performant MySQL database server is having good memory allocation and utilization, especially when running it in a production environment. But how can you determine if the MySQL utilization...

A master/slave replication cluster setup is a common use case in most organizations. Using MySQL Replication enables your data to be replicated across different environments and guarantees that the information gets copied. It is asynchronous...

Backups are a must in all Disaster Recovery Plan. It might not always be enough to guarantee an acceptable Recovery Point Objective, but is a good first approach. The problem is what happens if, in...