Many system administrators commonly overlook the importance of ongoing database configuration tuning. Configuration options are often being configured or tuned once, during the installation stage, and being left out until some unwanted events occur to...

The latest versions of MongoDB are built to integrate new or improved features from the predecessor versions. For this reason, it is recommended to run the latest version for maximum performance and additional features. Besides,...

Database Maintenance is a set of tasks that requires work on your database or set of database servers that involves improvement for its security, performance, optimization, upgrades, or even test such as benchmarking after changes...

Percona Server for MongoDB is a MongoDB open source distribution powered by Percona. It is a free, fully compatible and drop in replacement for MongoDB Community edition. It also provides “enterprise grade” features that would...

MySQL 8.0 has been available for a while and Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0 has also been available for some time as well. Also, MySQL 5.6 is coming up to its End-of-Life and people using PXC...

There are different reasons for upgrading your databases. It could be to apply security fixes, to use new features, solve compatibility issues, or just to keep your system up-to-date. This upgrade can be a major...

Percona XtraDB Cluster based on MySQL 8.0 has been out there for some time, so it’s not surprising more and more people are attempting to migrate into it. You may wonder how to approach this...

MariaDB 10.5 was released as GA in June 2020. In the release, there has been added support for Amazon S3 or any third-party public or private cloud that supports S3 API. It also features sophisticated...

ClusterControl is an automation tool for managing open source databases. It supports various databases such as  MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Timescale, and MongoDB. It is used to handle the full “deploy, monitor, and scale” cycle of...

The most intuitive database upgrade way that you can think of is to generate a replica in a new version and perform a failover of the application into it, and actually it works perfectly in...

MySQL 8.0 has been with us already for quite some time and many MySQL users have already upgraded to this version. For those who are still using older MySQL versions, we would like to present...

In this blog post, we are going to look into how to perform online migration from MySQL 5.6 standalone setup to a new replication set running on MySQL 5.7, deployed and managed by ClusterControl.  The...