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How to Secure Galera Cluster - 8 Tips
As a distributed database system, Galera Cluster requires additional security measures as compared to a centralized database. Data is distributed across multiple servers or even datacenters perhaps....
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D-7: When in Europe, Join the MySQL Community Dinner at FOSDEM
It’s kind of difficult to start a blog with something original that hasn’t been written before when blogging about attending or sponsoring a particular event or conference…What can I say?FOSDEM 2018 is...
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MySQL vs MariaDB vs Percona Server: Security Features Comparison
Security of data is critical for any organisation. It’s an important aspect that can heavily influence the design of the database environment. When deciding upon which MySQL flavour to use, you need to...
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Updated: Become a ClusterControl DBA - Deploying your Databases and Clusters
We get some nice feedback with regards to our product ClusterControl, especially how easy it is to install and get going. Installing new software is one thing, but using it properly is another.It is...
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Updated: Become a ClusterControl DBA - SSL Key Management and Encryption of...
Databases usually work in a secure environment. It may be a datacenter with a dedicated VLAN for database traffic. It may be a VPC in EC2. If your network spreads across multiple datacenters in...
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Updated: ClusterControl Tips & Tricks: MySQL Query Performance Tuning
Bad query performance is the most common problem DBA’s have to deal with. There are numerous ways to collect, process and analyze the data related to query performance - we’ve covered one of the most...
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Failover for MySQL Replication (and others) - Should it be Automated?
Automatic failover for MySQL Replication has been subject to debate for many years.Is it a good thing or a bad thing?For those with long memory in the MySQL world, they might remember the GitHub outage...
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New Webinar on How to Design Open Source Databases for High Availability
Join us March 27th for this webinar on how to design open source databases for high availability with Ashraf Sharif, Senior Support Engineer at Severalnines. From discussing high availability concepts...
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Updated: ClusterControl Tips & Tricks - Transparent Database Failover for...
ClusterControl is a great tool to deploy and manage databases clusters - if you are into MySQL, you can easily deploy clusters based on both traditional MySQL master-slave replication, Galera Cluster...
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Updated: Become a ClusterControl DBA: Managing your Database Configurations
In the past five posts of the blog series, we covered deployment of clustering/replication (MySQL / Galera, MySQL Replication, MongoDB & PostgreSQL), management & monitoring of your existing...
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Comparing Oracle RAC HA Solution to Galera Cluster for MySQL or MariaDB
Business has continuously desired to derive insights from information to make reliable, smarter, real-time, fact-based decisions. As firms rely more on data and databases, information and data...
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Migrating from MySQL to PostgreSQL - What You Should Know
Whether migrating a database or project from MySQL to PostgreSQL, or choosing PostgreSQL for a new project with only MySQL knowledge, there are a few things to know about PostgreSQL and the differences...
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Getting Started with ProxySQL - MySQL & MariaDB Load Balancing Tutorial
We’re excited to announce a major update to our tutorial “Database Load Balancing for MySQL and MariaDB with ProxySQL”ProxySQL is a lightweight yet complex protocol-aware proxy that sits between the...
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Updated: Become a ClusterControl DBA: Making your DB components HA via Load...
Choosing your HA topologyThere are various ways to retain high availability with databases. You can use Virtual IPs (VRRP) to manage host availability, you can use resource managers like Zookeeper and...
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Comparing Database Proxy Failover Times - ProxySQL, MaxScale and HAProxy
ClusterControl can be used to deploy highly available replication setups. It supports switchover and failover for GTID-based MySQL or MariaDB replication setups. ClusterControl can deploy different...
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New Webinar: How to Measure Database Availability
Join us on April 24th for Part 2 of our database high availability webinar special!In this session we will focus on how to measure database availability. It is notoriously hard to measure and report...
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Capacity Planning for MySQL and MariaDB - Dimensioning Storage Size
Server manufacturers and cloud providers offer different kinds of storage solutions to cater for your database needs. When buying a new server or choosing a cloud instance to run our database, we often...
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How to Make Your MySQL or MariaDB Database Highly Available on AWS and Google...
Running databases on cloud infrastructure is getting increasingly popular these days. Although a cloud VM may not be as reliable as an enterprise-grade server, the main cloud providers offer a variety...
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Announcing ClusterControl 1.6 - automation and management of open source...
Today we are excited to announce the 1.6 release of ClusterControl - the all-inclusive database management system that lets you easily deploy, monitor, manage and scale highly available open source...
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How to do Point-in-Time Recovery of MySQL & MariaDB Data using ClusterControl
Backups are crucial when it comes to safety of data. They are the ultimate disaster recovery solution - you have no database nodes reachable and your datacenter could literally have gone up in smoke,...
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