New User and LDAP Management in ClusterControl 1.8.2
After upgrading to ClusterControl 1.8.2, you should get the following notification banner: What's up with that? It is a depreciation notice of the current user management system in favor of the new user management system...
Migrating Azure Database for MySQL/MariaDB to an On-Prem Server
Database migrations can impose huge challenges when you consider how to start, what tools to use, and how to achieve a full database migration successfully. Earlier, we have listed the top open source you can...
Migrating Google Cloud SQL for MySQL to an On-Prem Server
Google Cloud SQL for MySQL is a fully-managed database service that helps you set up, maintain, manage, and administer your MySQL relational databases on Google Cloud Platform. However, there are differences between Cloud SQL and...
Top Open Source Tools for PostgreSQL Migrations
Database migration is the process of migrating data from one or more source databases to one or more target databases by using a service or tool. There are different types of migrations. You can migrate...
Top Open Source Tools for MySQL & MariaDB Migrations
Large organizations that are using MySQL or MariaDB database platforms are often faced with a need to perform a database migration from one place to another. Regardless of the platform, type of database software (such...
Live Migrations Using MySQL Replication
Migrating your database to a new datacenter can be a high-risk and time-consuming process. A database contains state, and can be much harder to migrate as compared to web servers, queues or cache servers. In...
Moving from MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8.0 – What You Should Know
April 2018 is not just a date for the MySQL world. MySQL 8.0 was released there, and more than 1 year after, it’s probably time to consider migrating to this new version. MySQL 8.0 has...
Top Ten Reasons to Migrate from Oracle to PostgreSQL
Oracle Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) has been widely used by large organizations and is considered by far to be the most advanced database technology available in the market. It’s typically the most often compared...
Avoiding Database Vendor Lock-In for MySQL or MariaDB
Vendor lock-in is defined as "Proprietary lock-in or customer lock-in, which makes a customer dependent on a vendor for their products and services; unable to use another vendor without substantial cost" (wikipedia). Undeniably for many...
Tips for Migrating from Proprietary to Open Source Databases
Back in the day proprietary databases were the only acceptable options. “No one ever got fired for buying from Oracle/Microsoft/IBM” was the saying. Huge, monolithic databases used for every single purpose. Paid support - that’s how...
MySQL Load Balancing: Migrating ProxySQL from On-Prem to AWS EC2
Migrations between different environments are uncommon in database world. Migrations from one provider to another one. Moving from one datacenter to another. All of this happens on a regular basis. Organisations search for expense reduction,...
Migrating from MySQL Enterprise to MariaDB 10.3
While it shares the same heritage with MySQL, MariaDB is a different database. Over the years as new versions of MySQL and MariaDB were released, both projects have differed into two different RDBMS platforms. MariaDB...