Ever since ClusterControl 1.2.11 was released in 2015, MariaDB MaxScale has been supported as a database load balancer. Over the years MaxScale has grown and matured, adding several rich features. Recently MariaDB MaxScale 2.2 was...

In our previous blogs, we discussed MHA as a failover tool used in MySQL master-slave setups. Last month, we also blogged about how to handle MHA when it crashed. Today, we will see the top...

MySQL master-slave replication is pretty easy and straightforward to set up. This is the main reason why people choose this technology as the first step to achieve better database availability. However, it comes at the...

The rising demand for high availability systems and tight SLA’s pushes us to replace manual procedures with automated solutions. But do you have the time and necessary resources to address the complexity of failover operations...

A few days ago was the release of a new version of ClusterControl, the 1.7.2, where we can see several new features, one of the main ones is the support for TimescaleDB. TimescaleDB is an...

With Disaster Recovery, we aim to set up systems to handle anything that could go wrong with our database. What happens if the database crashes? What if a developer accidently truncates a table? What if...

If you’re looking at minimizing downtime and meet your SLAs through an automated or semi-automated approach, then this webinar replay is for you: A detailed overview of what failover processes may look like in MySQL,...

Dealing with MySQL replication? Chances are that you chose that setup to achieve high availability. After all, it is the most popular HA solution for MySQL. But guess what absolutely does not qualify as ‘being...

The Galera Cluster enforces strong data consistency, where all nodes in the cluster are tightly coupled. Although network segmentation is supported, replication performance is still bound by two factors: The round trip time (RTT) to...

Failover might sound like a buzzword for anyone within the IT industry, but what’s behind it? What is a failover? What can I use it for? Is it important to have it? How can I...

In a previous post, we discussed how you can take control of the failover process in ClusterControl by utilizing whitelists and blacklists. In this post, we are going to discuss a similar concept. But this...

Automated failover is pretty much a must have for many applications - uptime is taken for granted. It’s quite hard to accept that an application is down for 20 or 30 minutes because someone has...