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...

MySQL Enterprise Monitor is dead, let us help you determine your next move! Unlike standard MySQL server and MySQL Cluster, the way to start a MySQL/MariaDB Galera Cluster is a bit different. Galera requires you...

Most organizations rarely conduct cost analysis for their databases, even though it can reveal valuable insights. A simple yet powerful way to understand database costs is through a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis. You...

We previously compared two high availability solutions for MySQL - MHA and MariaDB Replication Manager and looked into how they performed fail-over. In this blog post, we’ll see how ClusterControl stacks up against these solutions....

Thanks to everyone who participated in our recent webinar on how to load balance MySQL and MariaDB with ClusterControl and ProxySQL! This joint webinar with ProxySQL creator René Cannaò generated a lot of interest …...

This video walks you through nine tips you should consider when deploying and managing a MySQL Replication environment and how utilizing ClusterControl can help make deploying, managing, monitoring, and scaling MySQL easy. Though MySQL replication...

For years, MySQL replication used to be based on binary log events - all a slave knew was the exact event and the exact position it just read from the master. Any single transaction from...

The video below details the features and functions that are available in ClusterControl for MySQL Replication.  Included in the video are… How to Deploy Master-Slave Replication How to Deploy Multi-Master Replication MySQL Replication overview including...

  After attacks on MongoDB databases, we have recently also seen that MySQL servers are being targeted by ransomware. This should not come as a surprise, given the increasing adoption of public and private clouds....

MySQL Replication has become an instrumental part of scale-out architectures in LAMP environments. MySQL offers plenty of solutions when there is a need to scale out, the most common being to add read replicas. Building...

The free ClusterControl Developer Studio provides you a set of monitoring and performance advisors to use and lets you create custom advisors to add security and stability to your MySQL, Galera, and MongoDB infrastructures. ClusterControl’s...

In this video we will demonstrate the differences between deploying a MongoDB ReplicaSet versus deploying a MongoDB Sharded Cluster in ClusterControl.   With the new version of ClusterControl 1.4, you can automatically and securely deploy...