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...

Vendor lock-in is defined as "Proprietary lock-in or customer lock-in, which makes a customer dependent on a vendor for their products and services; unable to use another vendor without substantial cost" (wikipedia). Undeniably for many...

Ensuring smooth operations of your production databases is not a trivial task, and there are a number of tools and utilities to help with the job. There are tools available for monitoring health, server performance,...

In a previous blog, we announced a new ClusterControl 1.7.4 feature called Cluster-to-Cluster Replication. It automates the entire process of setting up a DR cluster off your primary cluster, with replication in between. For more...