The most noteworthy improvements in MariaDB 10.11
Improving on its predecessor, MariaDB 10.6, MariaDB 10.11 is the latest long-term stable series. It was released in February 2023 with ClusterControl support introduced in August of the same year. So what's new? We'll take...
Introduction to the Severalnines ClusterControl API and SDK – Part I
This is Part I of a multi-part Several9s blog series on how to use Severalnines' ClusterControl REST API client SDK to programmatically control ClusterControl in order to accomplish many facets of database life cycle management...
What’s new in MariaDB 10.6
As of January 2022, ClusterControl v1.9.2 introduced support for the latest version of MariaDB — version 10.6. MariaDB 10.6, released in July 2021, will be supported for the next four years or precisely until July...
What is MariaDB Enterprise and How to Manage it with ClusterControl?
Have you ever wondered what products MariaDB Enterprise has to offer? Is it different from MariaDB Community? Can I manage them with ClusterControl? MariaDB provides two distributions of their software — Enterprise and Community. The...
Zero Downtime Upgrades Made Easy with ClusterControl
“Keep your database upgraded to the latest version - it’s for your safety” is something you may frequently hear as sound advice and best practice when it comes to database management. On the other hand,...
Benchmarking databases 101 – part 1
Benchmarks are one of the activities that database administrators perform. You run them to see how your hardware behaves, you run them to see how your application and database work together under pressure. You run...
ClusterControl: Intro to the New Query Monitor
ClusterControl 1.9.0 was released on July 16th 2021 with a lot of new features introduced to the system. Those features include Redis Management and Monitoring, a new agent-based Query Monitoring system for MySQL and PostgreSQL,...
Webinar Replay: Top Five Tips to Drive MariaDB Galera Cluster Performance for Nextcloud
Are you a MariaDB database administrator that is facing problems regarding your Galera Cluster implementations? Perhaps you even tried to make it work in harmony with Nextcloud? If you have answered “yes” to any of...
Proactive MySQL Monitoring (Developer Studio/Advisors Angle)
Monitoring your MySQL database proactively is imperative nowadays. It plays a crucial and significant part for managing and controlling your database especially for your production-grade clusters. Missing specific information that would be beneficial for improving...
ClusterControl – Advanced Backup Management – mariabackup Part III
So far in the previous two parts of this short blog series we have discussed several options that may impact the time and size of the backup. We have discussed different compression options and a...
ClusterControl – Advanced Backup Management – mariabackup Part II
In the previous part we have tested backup time and effectiveness of the compression for different backup compression levels and methods. In this blog we will continue our efforts and we will talk about more...
ClusterControl runtime configuration options
When you install ClusterControl, it has a default configuration that maybe doesn’t fit your requirements so probably you will need to customize this installation. For this, you can modify the configuration files, but you can...