With the recent release of ClusterControl 1.4.0, we added a bunch of new features to better support MySQL replication users. In this blog post, we’ll give you a quick overview of the new features. Enhanced...

Today we are pleased to announce the 1.4 release of ClusterControl - the all-inclusive database management system that lets you easily deploy, monitor, manage and scale highly available open source databases in any environment; on-premise...

The MySQL database workload is determined by the number of queries that it processes. There are several situations in which MySQL slowness can originate. The first possibility is if there is any queries that are...

In this blogpost we look at the recent concerns around MongoDB ransomware and security issues, and how to mitigate this threat to your own MongoDB instance. Recently, various security blogs raised concern that a hacker...

Having too large a (write) workload on a master is dangerous. If the master collapses and a failover happens to one of its slave nodes, the slave node could collapse under the write pressure as...

  This week we’re happy to announce that our new DevOps Guide to Database Backups for MySQL & MariaDB is now available for download (free)! This guide discusses in detail the two most popular backup...

As sysadmins and DBAs, we need to be notified whenever something critical happens to our database.  But would it not be nicer if we were informed upfront, and still have time to perform pre-emptive maintenance...

In the previous blog posts, we gave a brief introduction to the ClusterControl Developer Studio and the ClusterControl Domain Specific Language. We covered some useful examples, e.g., how to extract information from the Performance Schema,...

In a previous blog, we looked at the efficiency gains when automating the deployment of a Galera cluster for MySQL. In this post, we are going to dive into cluster management. Should we manage our...

  Press release: everywhere in the world, 12th October 2016 - Severalnines, Europe’s leading database infrastructure software provider, today announced Wyscout, the world’s leading company providing video, data and technology to football people all over...

If you have deployed databases with high availability before, you will know that a deployment does not always go your way, even though you’ve done it a zillion times. You could spend a full day...

We’ve got your databases covered: check out our new pricing plans for ClusterControl, the single console to deploy, monitor and manage your entire database infrastructure. Whether you’re looking to manage standalone instances, need high availability...