Announcing ClusterControl 1.7.1: Support for PostgreSQL 11 and MongoDB 4.0, Enhanced Monitoring
We are excited to announce the 1.7.1 release of ClusterControl - the only management system you’ll ever need to take control of your open source database infrastructure! ClusterControl 1.7.1 introduces the next iteration of our agent-based...
MongoDB in 2018 – A Year in Review
MongoDB is by far the most popular choice in NoSQL world as its distributed architecture allows for more scalability and its document data model provides good flexibility to developers. Almost every year, major MongoDB version...
Raising the Bar on MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL & MongoDB Management
I’d like to take advantage of the quiet days between holidays to look back on 2018 at Severalnines as we continue to advance automation and management of the world’s most popular open source databases: MySQL,...
How to Use MongoDB Data Modeling to Improve Throughput Operations
The efficiency of a database not only relies on fine-tuning the most critical parameters, but also goes further to appropriate data presentation in the related collections. Recently, I worked on a project that developed a...
Deploying MongoDB Using Docker
The main advantage of using MongoDB is that it’s easy to use. One can easily install MongoDB and start working on it in minutes. Docker makes this process even easier. One cool thing about Docker...
Linking & Creating MongoDB Joins Using SQL: Part 3
Multiple JOINS in a single query Multiple JOINS are normally associated with multiple collections, but you must have a basic understanding of how the INNER JOIN works (see my previous posts on this topic). In...
Webinar Replay: Backup Management for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL & MongoDB with ClusterControl
Thanks to everyone who participated in this week’s webinar on ‘Backup Management with ClusterControl’. The replay is now available to watch online as well as the slide deck. If you feel frustrated by traditional, labour-intensive...
Linking & Creating MongoDB Joins Using SQL: Part 2
JOIN is one of the key distinct features between SQL and NoSQL databases. In SQL databases, we can perform a JOIN between two tables within the same or different databases. However, this is not the...
Best Practices for Database Backups
Backups - one of the most important things to take care of while managing databases. It is said there are two types of people - those who backup their data and those who will backup...
Linking & Creating MongoDB Joins Using SQL: Part 1
SQL is the most preferred way of engaging relational databases as far as querying is concerned. It’s understood that users would have worked with relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL that employ the SQL...
A Developer’s Guide to MongoDB Sharding
A massive growth of data comes with a cost of reduced throughput operations especially when being served by a single server. However, you can improve this performance by increasing the number of servers and also...
State-of-the-Art Database Management: ClusterControl – The Guide
Today we’re happy to announce the availability of our first white paper on ClusterControl, the only management system you’ll ever need to automate and manage your open source database infrastructure! Download ClusterControl - The Guide!...