MySQL has a long tradition in geographic replication. Distributing clusters to remote data centers reduces the effects of geographic latency by pushing data closer to the user. It also provides a capability for disaster recovery....

ClusterControl is a great tool to deploy and manage databases clusters - if you are into MySQL, you can easily deploy clusters based on both traditional MySQL master-slave replication, Galera Cluster or MySQL NDB Cluster....

Most organizations do not realize they have a problem with database backups until they need to restore the data and find it’s not there or not in the form that they were expecting. The designated...

Streaming replication setups with Postgres are inevitably related to failovers. The sole writer in the setup would be the primary, it generates XLOG records and continuously ships them to one or more standby servers. If...

Performing regular backups of your database cluster is imperative for high availability and disaster recovery. If for any reason you lost your entire cluster and had to do a full restore from backup, you would...

MySQL offers multiple storage engines to store its data, with InnoDB and MyISAM being the most popular ones.  Each storage engine implements a more specific set of features required for a type of workload, and...

Failure is a fact of life, and cannot be avoided. No IT vendor in their right mind will claim 100% system availability, although some might claim several nines :-) We might have armies of ops...

Thanks to everyone who attended this week’s webinar; if you missed the sessions or would like to watch the webinar again and browse through the slides, they are now available online.   Special thanks to...