Most organizations rarely conduct cost analysis for their databases, even though it can reveal valuable insights. A simple yet powerful way to understand database costs is through a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis. You...

We previously compared two high availability solutions for MySQL - MHA and MariaDB Replication Manager and looked into how they performed fail-over. In this blog post, we’ll see how ClusterControl stacks up against these solutions....

Thanks to everyone who participated in our recent webinar on how to load balance MySQL and MariaDB with ClusterControl and ProxySQL! This joint webinar with ProxySQL creator René Cannaò generated a lot of interest …...

This video walks you through nine tips you should consider when deploying and managing a MySQL Replication environment and how utilizing ClusterControl can help make deploying, managing, monitoring, and scaling MySQL easy. Though MySQL replication...

The video below details the features and functions that are available in ClusterControl for MySQL Replication.  Included in the video are… How to Deploy Master-Slave Replication How to Deploy Multi-Master Replication MySQL Replication overview including...

  After attacks on MongoDB databases, we have recently also seen that MySQL servers are being targeted by ransomware. This should not come as a surprise, given the increasing adoption of public and private clouds....

MySQL Replication has become an instrumental part of scale-out architectures in LAMP environments. MySQL offers plenty of solutions when there is a need to scale out, the most common being to add read replicas. Building...

The free ClusterControl Developer Studio provides you a set of monitoring and performance advisors to use and lets you create custom advisors to add security and stability to your MySQL, Galera, and MongoDB infrastructures. ClusterControl’s...

Join us for our new webinar on “How to secure MongoDB with ClusterControl” on Tuesday, March 14th! In this webinar we will walk you through the essential steps necessary to secure MongoDB and how to...

Since MongoDB is the favored database for many developers, it comes to no surprise that the community support is excellent. You can quickly find answers to most of your problems on knowledge sites like Stack...

Database ops management consists of 80% reading and interpreting your monitoring systems. Hundreds of metrics can be interpreted and combined in various ways to give you deep insights into your database systems and how to...

The growing number of cyberattacks on open source database deployments highlights the industry’s poor administrative and operational practices. If 2016 taught us anything, it was the importance of sound operational practices and security measures in...