PostgreSQL Privileges & User Management – What You Should Know
User management within PostgreSQL can be tricky. Typically new users are managed, in concert, within a couple of key areas in the environment. Oftentimes, privileges are perfect on one front, yet configured incorrectly on the...
How to Secure Your Open Source Databases with ClusterControl
Security is one of the most important aspects of running a database. Whether you are a developer or a DBA, if you are managing the database, it is your responsibility to safeguard your data and...
Featuring Backup Encryption for MySQL, MongoDB & PostgreSQL – ClusterControl 1.5.1
What better way to start a new year than with a new product release? Today we are excited to announce the 1.5.1 release of ClusterControl - the all-inclusive database management system that lets you easily...
PostgreSQL Load Balancing Using HAProxy & Keepalived
A proxy layer can be quite useful in increasing availability of your database tier. It may reduce the amount of code on the application side to handle database failures and replication topology changes. In this...
Open Source Databases in 2017 and Trends for 2018
With 2017 quickly coming to a close and 2018 looming on the horizon we wanted to take a minute and reflect on what’s been happening in our industry in the past year and what we...
Performing Replication Topology Changes for PostgreSQL
Replication plays a crucial role in maintaining high availability. Servers can fail, the operating system or the database software might need to be upgraded. This means reshuffling server roles and moving replication links, while maintaining...
ClusterControl – All the Feature Highlights & Improvements From 2017
With four major releases in 2017 ClusterControl is better than ever at supporting your MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB & PostgreSQL environments. When thinking about the features and functions released in 2017 three main themes emerge… Delivering...
Point-in-Time PostgreSQL Database Restoration
The ability to perform backup and restore of your data is one of the fundamental requirements of any DBMS. In a previous post, we discussed Postgres backups in general. In this blog post, we’ll look...
Webinar Replay: Severalnines & MariaDB Present: How to Manage MariaDB 10.2 With ClusterControl 1.5
As you might have seen in our recent announcement, ClusterControl now supports the latest versions of MariaDB, MySQL NDB Cluster and PostgreSQL
Deploying MySQL, MariaDB, Percona Server, MongoDB or PostgreSQL – Made Easy With ClusterControl
Helping users securely automate and manage their open source databases has been at the core of our efforts from the inception of Severalnines. And ever since the first release of our flagship product, ClusterControl, it’s...
Upgrading to the ClusterControl Enterprise Edition
The ClusterControl Enterprise Edition provides you will a full suite of management and scaling features in addition to the deployment and monitoring functions offered as part of the free Community Edition. You also have the...
PostgreSQL Load Balancing & ProxySQL Enhancements – ClusterControl 1.5
Load balancers are an essential component in database high availability; especially when making topology changes transparent to applications and implementing read-write split functionality. ClusterControl provides an array of features to securely deploy, monitor and configure...