Today we are pleased to announce the 1.4.1 release of ClusterControl - the all-inclusive database management system that lets you easily deploy, monitor, manage and scale highly available open source databases - and load balancers...

Thanks to everyone who participated in our recent webinar on High Availability in ProxySQL and on how to build a solid, scalable and manageable proxy layer using ProxySQL for highly available MySQL infrastructures. This second...

ClusterControl allows you to easily manage your database infrastructure on premise or in the cloud. With in-depth support for technologies like Galera Cluster for MySQL and MariaDB setups, you can truly automate mixed environments for...

In today’s competitive technology environment, high availability is a must. There is no way around it - if your website or service is not available, then most probably you are losing money. It could relate...

Our journey in adopting MySQL and MariaDB in containerized environments continues, with ClusterControl coming into the picture to facilitate deployment and management. We already have our ClusterControl image hosted in Docker Hub, where it can...

Combining Galera and asynchronous replication in the same MariaDB setup, aka Hybrid Replication, can be useful - e.g. as a live backup node in a remote datacenter or reporting/analytics server. We already blogged about this...

Hybrid replication, i.e. combining Galera and asynchronous MySQL replication in the same setup, became much easier since GTID got introduced in MySQL 5.6. Although it was fairly straightforward to replicate from a standalone MySQL server...

This video walks you through the features that ClusterControl offers for Galera Cluster and how you can use them to deploy, manage, monitor and scale your open source database environments. ClusterControl and Galera Cluster ClusterControl...

In this video Art van Scheppingen shows you how easy it is to add your Galera setups to ClusterControl. ClusterControl provides you with a single console to deploy, manage, monitor, and scale your Galera setups...

This post is a continuation of our previous post on Online Schema Upgrade in Galera using TOI method. We will now show you how to perform a schema upgrade using the Rolling Schema Upgrade (RSU)...

Performing regular backups of your database cluster is imperative for high availability and disaster recovery. If for any reason you lost your entire cluster and had to do a full restore from backup, you would...

Unlike standard MySQL server and MySQL Cluster, the way to start a MySQL/MariaDB Galera Cluster is a bit different. Galera requires you to start a node in a cluster as a reference point, before the...