Complex, inflexible architectures, redundancy and out-of-date technology, are common problems for companies facing data to cloud migration.  We look to the “clouds,” hoping that we will find there a magic solution to improve operational speed...

Migrations between different environments are uncommon in database world. Migrations from one provider to another one. Moving from one datacenter to another. All of this happens on a regular basis. Organisations search for expense reduction,...

Presto is an open-source, parallel distributed, SQL engine for big data processing. It was developed from the ground-up by Facebook. The first internal release took place in 2013 and was quite a revolutionary solution for...

This is the second part of the multi-series How to Monitor PostgreSQL Running Inside a Docker Container. In Part 1, I presented an overview of docker containers, policies and networking. In this part we will...

MariaDB Server is no longer a straight imitate of MySQL. It grew into a mature fork, which implements new functionalities similar to what proprietary database systems offer in the upstream. MariaDB 10.3 greatly extends the...

We recently announced the release of ClusterControl 1.7.3 which includes a variety of improvements and newly added features. One of these new features is the addition of support in ClusterControl to allow a user to...

We’re excited to announce the 1.7.3 release of ClusterControl - the only database management system you’ll ever need to take control of your open source database infrastructure.  In this release we have added support for...

In the first part of the series, we showed you how to deploy a MySQL Replication setup with ProxySQL with WHM and cPanel. In this part, we are going to show some post-deployment operations for...

WHM and cPanel is no doubt the most popular hosting control panel for Linux based environments. It supports a number of database backends - MySQL, MariaDB and PostgreSQL as the application datastore. WHM only supports...

Ever since ClusterControl 1.2.11 was released in 2015, MariaDB MaxScale has been supported as a database load balancer. Over the years MaxScale has grown and matured, adding several rich features. Recently MariaDB MaxScale 2.2 was...

Galera Cluster, with its (virtually) synchronous replication, is commonly used in many different types of environments. Scaling it by adding new nodes is not hard (or just as simple a couple of clicks when you...

Encrypting your MariaDB database, whether it is in-transit and at-rest, is one of the most important things that an organization should consider if you value your data. Organizations that deal with financial transactions, medical records,...