MariaDB MaxScale Load Balancing on Docker: Management: Part Two
This blog post is a continuation of MariaDB MaxScale Load Balancing on Docker: Deployment - Part1. In this part, we are going to focus more on management operations with advanced use cases like service control,...
Announcing ClusterControl 1.7.2: Improved PostgreSQL Backup & Support for TimescaleDB & MySQL 8.0
We are excited to announce the 1.7.2 release of ClusterControl - the only database management system you’ll ever need to take control of your open source database infrastructure. ClusterControl 1.7.2 marks the first time for...
Choosing a Database Proxy for MySQL & MariaDB
We’re happy to announce that our new whitepaper Choosing a Database Proxy for MySQL and MariaDB is now available to download for free! Load balancing and high availability go hand-in-hand. Without them, you are left...
Comparing Database Proxy Failover Times – ProxySQL, MaxScale and HAProxy
ClusterControl can be used to deploy highly available replication setups. It supports switchover and failover for GTID-based MySQL or MariaDB replication setups. ClusterControl can deploy different types of proxies for traffic routing: ProxySQL, HAProxy and...
Making Your Database Components Highly Available (HA) via Load Balancers
Choosing Your HA Topology There are various ways to retain high availability with databases. You can use Virtual IPs (VRRP) to manage host availability, you can use resource managers like Zookeeper and Etcd to (re)configure...
Join Us in Amsterdam for a Meetup with OptimaData & VidaXL
Severalnines, our partner OptimaData, and customer VidaXL are joining forces to present the meetup “How to Manage Fast Growing Databases” in Amsterdam featuring a myriad of technical information and tips on load balancing, automation, open...
The Command Line Interface to ClusterControl
s9s is our official command line tool to interact with ClusterControl. We’re pretty excited about this, as we believe its ease of use and script-ability will make our users even more productive. Let’s have a...
Webinar Replay: How to Deploy and Manage ProxySQL, HAProxy and MaxScale
Thanks to everyone who participated in yesterday’s webinar on how to deploy and manage ProxySQL, HAProxy and MaxScale with ClusterControl. Krzysztof Książek, Senior Support Engineer at Severalnines, discussed support for proxies for MySQL HA setups...
MySQL Replication Failover – MaxScale vs MHA: Part Four
In the earlier blogs in this series, we concluded that MaxScale with MariaDB Replication Manager still has some way to go as a failover solution. The failover mechanism relied on MariaDB GTID, needed a wrapper...
MySQL Replication Failoverv – Maxscale vs MHA: Part Three
In our previous two posts we described in depth how MySQL Master-HA (MHA) and MaxScale + MariaDB Replication Manager (MRM) both perform their so called slave promotions (also known as master failover). MHA has been...
MySQL Replication Failover – Maxscale vs MHA: Part Two
In our previous post, we described how MySQL Master-HA (MHA) performs a so called slave promotion (also known as master failover) and ensures all remaining slaves in the topology get attached under the new master...
MySQL Replication Failover – Maxscale vs MHA: Part One
In our MySQL replication tutorial we have covered different aspects of replication including master failover by performing a slave promotion using ClusterControl. The slave promotion will turn a slave into the new master, and re-attach...