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...

ClusterControl can, among others, act as a great tool to help you design and execute the backup schedule. Numerous features are available including backup verification, transparent backup encryption and many others. What is quite commonly...

Sometimes it is hard to manage a large amount of data in a company, especially with the exponential increment of Data Analytics and IoT usage. Depending on the size, this amount of data could affect...

For all who are not familiar with Vitess, it is a MySQL-based database system that is intended to deliver an easy-to-scale, sharded, relational database management system. We will not get into details about the design...

While looking around Redis data directory you may have noticed several files, among them a file with .aof extension.  root@vagrant:~# ls -alh /var/lib/redis/ total 54M drwxr-x--- 2 redis redis 4.0K Jul 1 10:40 . drwxr-xr-x...

Twitter, GitHub, Pinterest, Snapchat, Craigslist, StackOverflow and Flickr just to name a few are the companies that are adopting Redis either for their storage or as a cache to boost performance. Redis is an in-memory...

Redis is an open-source in-memory datastore used as a database or cache. It has built-in replication and provides high availability via Redis Sentinel and automatic partitioning with Redis Cluster. In this blog, we will see...

In the era that we are living in now, anything with a less secure environment is easily a target for an attack and becomes a bounty for the attackers. Compared to the past 20 years,...

High availability is a must these days and ClusterControl performs a key role in ensuring that your database clusters will stay up and running. On the other hand, how can we ensure that ClusterControl itself...

One of the most popular ways in achieving high availability for MySQL is replication. Replication has been around for many years, and became much more stable with the introduction of GTIDs. But even with these...

Once you see that your database environment has issues, you are in trouble. Maybe one of your replicas is out or maybe you are experiencing a significant increase in the load across your databases that...

PostgreSQL is one of the databases that can be deployed via ClusterControl, along with MySQL, MariaDB and MongoDB. ClusterControl not only simplifies the deployment of the database cluster, but has a function for scalability in...