Using logical backup programs like mysqldump is a common practice performed by MySQL admins for backup and restore (the process of moving a database from one server to another) and is also the most efficient...

Dealing with large transactions was always a pain point in Galera Cluster. The way in which Galera writeset certification works causes troubles when transactions are long or when a single row is being modified often...

Camunda BPM is an open-source workflow and decision automation platform. Camunda BPM ships with tools for creating workflow and decision models, operating deployed models in production, and allowing users to execute workflow tasks assigned to...

ClusterControl version 1.7 introduced a new way to watch your database clusters. The new agent-based approach was designed for demanding high-resolution monitoring. ClusterControl agentless, secure SSH-based remote stats collection has been extended with modern high-frequency...

Deploying a database cluster is not rocket science - there are many how-to’s on how to do that. But how do you know what you just deployed is production-ready? Manual deployments can also be tedious...

Container orchestration tools simplify the running of a distributed system, by deploying and redeploying containers and handling any failures that occur. One might need to move applications around, e.g., to handle updates, scaling, or underlying...

Announced as part of the ClusterControl 1.5 release, we now provide full support for MariaDB version 10.2. This new version provides even greater integration with Galera Cluster, MariaDB’s HA solution of choice, and also features...

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...

Unlike standard MySQL server and MySQL Cluster, the way to start a MySQL/MariaDB Galera Cluster is a bit different. Galera requires you to start a node in a cluster as a reference point, before the...

The MariaDB team released a GA version of MariaDB Galera Cluster 10 in June 2014. MariaDB 10 is the equivalent of MySQL 5.6, and therefore, packed with lots of great features. In this blog post,...

Apache CloudStack is a turnkey orchestration platform to deliver IaaS clouds. As a cloud infrastructure scales to hundreds or thousands of servers, with production environments supporting multiple applications and services, high availability becomes a key...

MariaDB 10 supports multi-source replication, and each MariaDB Galera node can have up to 64 masters connected to it. So it is possible to use a MariaDB Cluster as an aggregator for many single-instance MariaDB...