MySQL Galera Cluster 4.0 is the new kid on the database block with very interesting new features. Currently it is available only as a part of MariaDB 10.4 but in the future it will work...

Microsoft Azure is known to many as an alternative public cloud platform to Amazon AWS. It's not easy to directly compare these two giant companies. Microsoft's cloud business -- dubbed commercial cloud -- includes everything...

In our last blog we discussed the offerings available within Amazon Web Services (AWS) when running a MySQL Galera Cluster. In this blog, we'll continue the discussion by looking further at what the offerings are...

Running a MySQL Galera Cluster (either the Percona, MariaDB, or Codership build) is, unfortunately, not a  supported (nor part of) the databases supported by Amazon RDS. Most of the databases supported by RDS use asynchronous...

ClusterControl 1.7.3 comes with a notable improvement in cloud integration. It is possible to deploy a MySQL and PostgreSQL replication cluster to the cloud, as well as automatically launch a cloud instance and scale out...

Galera Cluster, with its (virtually) synchronous replication, is commonly used in many different types of environments. Scaling it by adding new nodes is not hard (or just as simple a couple of clicks when you...

In the previous blog post, we showed you some basic steps to deploy and manage a standalone MySQL server as well as MySQL Replication setup using the MySQL Puppet module. In this second installation, we...

In one of the previous blogs, we covered new features which are coming out in MariaDB 10.4. We mentioned there that included in this version will be a new Galera Cluster release. In this blog...

Database migrations don’t scale well. Typically you need to perform a great deal of tests before you can pull the trigger and switch from old to new. Migrations are usually done manually, as most of...

WHMCS is an all-in-one client management, billing and support solution for web hosting companies. It's one of the leaders in the hosting automation world to be used alongside the hosting control panel itself. WHMCS runs...

ProxySQL is an intelligent and high-performance SQL proxy which supports MySQL, MariaDB and ClickHouse. Recently, ProxySQL 2.0 has become GA and it comes with new exciting features such as GTID consistent reads, frontend SSL, Galera...

Galera replication is relatively new if compared to MySQL replication, which is natively supported since MySQL v3.23. Although MySQL replication is designed for master-slave unidirectional replication, it can be configured as an active master-master setup...