Cloud computing introduced many new concepts that nowadays it is pretty common to hear in all companies like IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), SaaS (Software as a Service), or DBaaS  (Database as a Service), and...

MariaDB has recently launched its new DBaaS offering, SkySQL. It might be a surprise to some, but this has been an anticipated move from MariaDB as they have been actively pushing state of the art...

In this blog post, we are going to set up two Galera-based Clusters running on Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7, one for the production and one for the disaster recovery (DR). We will use ClusterControl to...

Multi-cloud environments are a very good solution to implement disaster recovery and very high level of high availability. They help to ensure that even a full outage of a whole region of one cloud provider...

In recent years, the use of platform infrastructure has shifted from on-premise to cloud computing. This is based on the absence of cost capital costs that must be incurred by the company if used when...

Multi-cloud deployments of open source databases require considerations such as high availability, scalability, resiliency, backups, and disaster recovery. In this blog, we will emphasize the importance of database backups in the cloud which provide you...

In this blog post, we are going to look into how to deploy a MariaDB replication setup in a multi-cloud environment. Suppose our primary application is located at AWS, it's the best idea to set...

Failover is the ability of a system to continue working even if some failure occurs. It suggests that the functions of the system are assumed by secondary components if the primary components fail or if...

Replication lag is an inevitable occurrence for multi-cloud database deployments, as it causes delays of transactions to reflect into the target node or cluster. When implementing a multi-cloud database deployment, the most common scenario (and...

Using a multi-cloud or multi-datacenter environment is useful for geo-distributed topologies or even for a disaster recovery plan, and actually, it is becoming more popular nowadays, therefore the concept of split-brain is also becoming more...

These days databases spanning across multiple clouds are quite common. They promise high availability and possibility to easily implement disaster recovery procedures. They are also a method to avoid vendor lock-in: if you design your...

Having a backup plan is a must when running a database in production. Running a backup every day, however, can eventually lead to an excess of backup storage space, especially when running on premises.  One...