ClusterControl can, among others, act as a great tool to help you design and execute the backup schedule. Numerous features are available including backup verification, transparent backup encryption and many others. What is quite commonly...

Sometimes it is hard to manage a large amount of data in a company, especially with the exponential increment of Data Analytics and IoT usage. Depending on the size, this amount of data could affect...

There is no doubt that monitoring and alerting is one of critical aspects for any application, especially for a mission-critical environment. From those alerts and notifications, one should be able to act or respond in...

For all who are not familiar with Vitess, it is a MySQL-based database system that is intended to deliver an easy-to-scale, sharded, relational database management system. We will not get into details about the design...

MariaDB offers built-in multi-host sharding capabilities with the Spider storage engine. Spider supports partitioning and XA transactions and allows remote tables of different MariaDB instances to be handled as if they were on the same...

While looking around Redis data directory you may have noticed several files, among them a file with .aof extension.  root@vagrant:~# ls -alh /var/lib/redis/ total 54M drwxr-x--- 2 redis redis 4.0K Jul 1 10:40 . drwxr-xr-x...

Twitter, GitHub, Pinterest, Snapchat, Craigslist, StackOverflow and Flickr just to name a few are the companies that are adopting Redis either for their storage or as a cache to boost performance. Redis is an in-memory...

Redis is an open-source in-memory datastore used as a database or cache. It has built-in replication and provides high availability via Redis Sentinel and automatic partitioning with Redis Cluster. In this blog, we will see...

In a previous blog, we already wrote on how to set up Redis Master-Slave replication with manual failover. The disadvantages of Redis Master-Slave architecture, as mentioned in a previous blog, refer to the ability to...

The use of in memory databases as a data structure layer for storing frequently accessed data is on the rise.  Infrastructure built for high concurrent traffic typically use an in memory database layer to implement...

Security is a must for all systems to protect your data as much as possible. Even when there is always a risk to be hacked, by following a security checklist will reduce this risk significantly....

As we discussed in one of our previous blogs, backing up Redis is quite important to do, even if all we use Redis for is a cache for your application or the database. We have...