Common Mistakes Made When Building an On-Premises Private Cloud Infrastructure
A private cloud is a scalable hosting solution that provides agility and redundancy of IT infrastructure for your enterprise. Private cloud solutions are suitable for enterprises that have large compute and storage requirements, need to...
Things to Consider When Building an Internal or Private DBaaS
In one of the previous blogs we discussed a possible DBaaS environment built with ClusterControl as the deployment and management platform for the databases. Today we would like to take a closer look at that...
Understanding the DBaaS Architecture
What is a DBaaS? The current trend for DBaaS or Database-as-a-Service and its terminology have grown so much that even its nomenclature also are termed as a cloud database or a managed-service database service. Technically...
Building Your Own Private DBaaS with ClusterControl
As we explained in one of our blogs, DBaaS are powerful tools for the users that require a database for their purposes. This can be a developer that spins up database clusters for their applications,...
What is a DBaaS?
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...
An Overview of the New DBaaS from MariaDB – SkySQL
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...
Comparing DBaaS Failover Solutions to Manual Recovery Setups
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...
Comparing RDS vs EC2 for Managing MySQL or MariaDB on AWS
RDS is a Database as a Service (DBaaS) that automatically configures and maintains your databases in the AWS cloud. The user has limited power over specific configurations in comparison to running MySQL directly on Elastic...
Database Automation – Private DBaaS for MySQL, MariaDB and MongoDB with ClusterControl
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,...