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...

As soon as you start running a database server and your usage grows, you are exposed to many types of technical problems, performance degradation, and database malfunctions.  Each of these could lead to much bigger...

We have recently written several blogs covering how different cloud providers handle database failover. We compared failover performance in Amazon Aurora, Amazon RDS and ClusterControl, tested the failover behavior in Amazon RDS, and also on...

There are numerous cloud providers these days. They can be small or large, local or with data centers spread across the whole world. Many of these cloud providers offer some kind of a managed relational...

Drupal is a Content Management System (CMS) designed to create everything from tiny to large corporate websites. Over 1,000,000 websites run on Drupal and it is used to make many of the websites and applications...

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...

If your IT infrastructure is running on AWS, you have probably heard about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), an easy way to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides...

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...

High Availability is a must these days as most organizations can’t allow itself to lose its data. High Availability, however, always comes with a price tag (which can vary a lot.) Any setups which require...

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...

Deployment and management your database environment can be a tedious task. It's very common nowadays to use tools for automating your deployment to make these tasks easier. Automation solutions such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or...

Complex, inflexible architectures, redundancy and out-of-date technology, are common problems for companies facing data to cloud migration.  We look to the “clouds,” hoping that we will find there a magic solution to improve operational speed...