Load balancers are an essential component in MySQL and MariaDB database high availability; especially when making topology changes transparent to applications and implementing read-write split functionality. ProxySQL is a lightweight yet complex protocol-aware proxy that...

Today we are pleased to announce the 1.4.1 release of ClusterControl - the all-inclusive database management system that lets you easily deploy, monitor, manage and scale highly available open source databases - and load balancers...

Thanks to everyone who participated in our recent webinar on High Availability in ProxySQL and on how to build a solid, scalable and manageable proxy layer using ProxySQL for highly available MySQL infrastructures. This second...

ClusterControl allows you to easily manage your database infrastructure on premise or in the cloud. With in-depth support for technologies like Galera Cluster for MySQL and MariaDB setups, you can truly automate mixed environments for...

In today’s competitive technology environment, high availability is a must. There is no way around it - if your website or service is not available, then most probably you are losing money. It could relate...

Our journey in adopting MySQL and MariaDB in containerized environments continues, with ClusterControl coming into the picture to facilitate deployment and management. We already have our ClusterControl image hosted in Docker Hub, where it can...

Hybrid replication, i.e. combining Galera and asynchronous MySQL replication in the same setup, became much easier since GTID got introduced in MySQL 5.6. Although it was fairly straightforward to replicate from a standalone MySQL server...

This post is a continuation of our previous post on Online Schema Upgrade in Galera using TOI method. We will now show you how to perform a schema upgrade using the Rolling Schema Upgrade (RSU)...

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...

We previously compared two high availability solutions for MySQL - MHA and MariaDB Replication Manager and looked into how they performed fail-over. In this blog post, we’ll see how ClusterControl stacks up against these solutions....

Setting up replication in MySQL is easy, but managing it in production has never been an easy task. Even with the newer GTID auto-positioning, it still can go wrong if you don’t know what you...

Thanks to everyone who participated in our recent webinar on how to load balance MySQL and MariaDB with ClusterControl and ProxySQL! This joint webinar with ProxySQL creator René Cannaò generated a lot of interest …...