Installing, configuring, deploying databases and performing repetitive administrative tasks are all part of a DBA’s or sysadmin’s job. This can get pretty repetitive and overwhelming if you are part of a centralized IT team,...

  MongoDB is great at storing clickstream data, but using it to analyze millions of documents can be challenging. Hadoop provides a way of processing and analyzing data at large scale. Since it is a...

      Thanks to everyone who attended and participated last week’s joint webinar on ClusterControl 1.2.6! We had great questions from participants (thank you), most of which are transcribed below with our answers to...

Thanks to everyone who attended last week’s joint webinar with the Tokutek Team; if you missed the sessions or would like to watch the webinar again & browse through the slides, they are now available...

Thanks to everyone who attended this week’s webinar; if you missed the sessions or would like to watch the webinar again and browse through the slides, they are now available online.   Special thanks to...

So, your development project has been humming along nicely on MongoDB, until it was time to deploy the application. That's when you called your operations person and things got uncomfortable. NoSQL, document database, collections, replica...

  According to Wikipedia, a ceilometer is a device that uses a laser or other light source to determine the height of a cloud base. And it is also the name of the framework for...

In this post we will compare performance of MongoDB and TokuMX, a MongoDB performance engine from Tokutek. We will conduct three simple experiments that (almost) anyone without any programming skills can try and reproduce. In...

  Replica Sets in MongoDB are very useful. They provide multiple copies of data, automated failover and read scalability. A Replica Set can consist of up to 12 nodes, with only one primary node (or...

Replica Sets or Sharded Clusters? ** Diagrams updated on May 22nd. Thanks to Leif Walsh from Tokutek for his feedback. Replica Sets are a great way to replicate MongoDB data across multiple servers and have...

**Attention: The instructions in this blog post are outdated. Please refer to ClusterControl Quick Start Guide for updated instructions. In this post, we are going to show you on how to install and integrate ClusterControl...

Last year, we did a survey asking our users about any other databases they were using alongside MySQL. A clear majority were interested in using other databases alongside MySQL, these included (in order of popularity)...