We have recently written several blogs covering how different cloud providers handle database failover. We compared failover performance in Amazon Aurora, Amazon RDS and ClusterControl, tested the failover behavior in Amazon RDS, and also on...

Every profitable enterprise requires high availability. Websites & Blogs are no different as even smaller companies and individuals require their sites to stay live to keep their reputation.  WordPress is, by far, the most popular...

MariaDB Server is no longer a straight imitate of MySQL. It grew into a mature fork, which implements new functionalities similar to what proprietary database systems offer in the upstream. MariaDB 10.3 greatly extends the...

We’re excited to announce the 1.7.3 release of ClusterControl - the only database management system you’ll ever need to take control of your open source database infrastructure.  In this release we have added support for...

Galera Cluster, with its (virtually) synchronous replication, is commonly used in many different types of environments. Scaling it by adding new nodes is not hard (or just as simple a couple of clicks when you...

Docker has become the most common tool to create, deploy, and run applications by using containers. It allows us to package up an application with all of the parts it needs, such as libraries and...

Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is the time period within which a service must be restored to avoid unacceptable consequences. By calculating how long it can take to recover from a database failure, we can know...

Included in the latest release, ClusterControl 1.7.2 introduces our new and exciting search functionality we’re calling “ClusterControl Spotlight.” ClusterControl Spotlight allows you to... Navigate the application faster Execute any action from any page within the...

There are multiple ways of deploying a database. You can install it by hand, you can rely on the widely available infrastructure orchestration tools like Ansible, Chef, Puppet or Salt. Those tools are very popular...

Users of open source databases often have to use a mixture of tools and homegrown scripts to manage their production database environments. However, even while having own homegrown scripts in the solution, it’s hard to...

Included in the 1.7.2 release of ClusterControl we are proud to announce an expansion of the databases we support to include TimescaleDB, a revolutionary new time-series that leverages the stability, maturity and power of PostgreSQL....

We are excited to announce the 1.7.2 release of ClusterControl - the only database management system you’ll ever need to take control of your open source database infrastructure. ClusterControl 1.7.2 marks the first time for...