An Overview of the Percona MongoDB Kubernetes Operator
MongoDB and Kubernetes is a great combination, especially in regards to complexity. Yet, Percona's MongoDB (PSMDB) offers more flexibility for the NoSQL database, and it comes also with tools that are efficient for today's productivity;...
How to Deploy Percona XtraDB Cluster
Percona XtraDB Cluster is a cluster solution based on the synchronous replication handled by Galera library. It is one of the most common high availability solutions for MySQL. It supports multiple writers and the conflict...
How to Deploy Percona Server for MySQL for High Availability
Percona Server for MySQL 8.0 offers a number of clustering solutions for high availability out-of-the-box: Single-master: Asynchronous replication Semi synchronous replication Multi-master: Group replication InnoDB Cluster (a combination of MySQL Router, MySQL Shell and Percona...
How to Deploy Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL for High Availability
High Availability is a requirement for many systems, no matter what technology you are using. This is especially important for databases, as they store data that applications rely upon. Depending on the requirements, there are...
Comparing Deployment Patterns for MongoDB
MongoDB deployment in production can only really work if the right deployment pattern is adhered to. Deploying a replica set in a single host does not guarantee the high availability of data. Dealing with big...
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...
Database Load Balancing in a Multi-Cloud Environment
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...
PostgreSQL Multi-Cloud Cluster Deployment
A multi-cloud environment is a good option for a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP), but it can be a time-consuming task as you need to configure the connectivity between the different cloud providers and you will...
What is a Multi-Cloud Database?
During the recent 24-hour Percona Live, multi-cloud was regularly one of the key topics. This is just another key indicator of the trend of many organizations who are switching their architectures or expanding their businesses...
Database Load Balancing on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Using HAProxy
Using a Load Balancer is a good idea for any database technology, as you can redirect applications to the available or healthy database nodes and even distribute the traffic across multiple servers to improve performance....
An Introduction to MySQL Deployment Using an Ansible Role
Ansible automates and simplifies repetitive, complex, and tedious operations. It is an IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs. It requires no agents, using...
MongoDB 4.2 Management & Monitoring Without Vendor Lockin
With the release of a new version of ClusterControl (1.7.5), we can see several new features, one of the main ones being the support for MongoDB 4.2. MongoDB 4.2 is on the market for a...