How to Use Failover Mechanism of MaxScale
Ever since ClusterControl 1.2.11 was released in 2015, MariaDB MaxScale has been supported as a database load balancer. Over the years MaxScale has grown and matured, adding several rich features....
View ArticlePostgreSQL Deployment and Maintenance with Ansible
Ansible is one of the most well-known and widely-used IT automation tools, it helps us in automating IT operational tasks such as...Bootstrapping the host (VM or bare-metal machine) from...
View ArticleHandling Large Data Volumes with MySQL and MariaDB
Most databases grow in size over time. The growth is not always fast enough to impact the performance of the database, but there are definitely cases where that happens. When it does, we often wonder...
View ArticleAn Overview of Database Diagram Tools Available for PostgreSQL
What’s in a Database Diagram?“Data are just summaries of thousands of stories – tell a few of those stories to help make the data meaningful” - Chip & Dan HeathBefore you start playing with a data...
View ArticleMySQL Replication with ProxySQL on WHM/cPanel Servers - Part 1
WHM and cPanel is no doubt the most popular hosting control panel for Linux based environments. It supports a number of database backends - MySQL, MariaDB and PostgreSQL as the application datastore....
View ArticleMySQL Replication with ProxySQL on WHM/cPanel Servers - Part 2
In the first part of the series, we showed you how to deploy a MySQL Replication setup with ProxySQL with WHM and cPanel. In this part, we are going to show some post-deployment operations for...
View ArticleDeploying & Configuring MongoDB Shards with Ansible
Database systems work better when there is a distributed workload among a number of running instances or rather data is categorized in an easy manner. MongoDB utilizes sharding such that data in a...
View ArticleAn Introduction to Data Lakes
The increase of unstructured data is a severe challenge to enterprises. Over the past decade, we could observe the rapid growth of data being produced and innovative changes to the way information is...
View ArticleAn introduction to Full Text Search in MariaDB
Databases are intended to efficiently store and query data. The problem is, there are many different types of data we can store: numbers, strings, JSON, geometrical data. Databases use different...
View ArticleHow to Monitor PostgreSQL Running Inside a Docker Container
Monitoring is the action of watching and checking over a period of time in order to see how what you are monitoring develops and performs. You do it so you can make any necessary changes to ensure...
View ArticleAnnouncing ClusterControl 1.7.3: Improved Support PostgreSQL & New Cloud...
We’re excited to announce the 1.7.3 release of ClusterControl - the only database management system you’ll ever need to take control of your open source database infrastructure. In this release we have...
View ArticleRunning Multiple PostgreSQL Instances on a Single Host
We recently announced the release of ClusterControl 1.7.3 which includes a variety of improvements and newly added features. One of these new features is the addition of support in ClusterControl to...
View ArticleWebmaster / Web Developer
The Severalnines Webmaster is responsible for developing, maintaining, and updating Severalnines’ online properties. The ideal candidate has a strong background in developing Drupal websites who is...
View ArticleScaling Postgresql for Large Amounts of Data
Nowadays, it’s common to see a large amount of data in a company’s database, but depending on the size, it could be hard to manage and the performance could be affected during high traffic if we don’t...
View ArticleHow to Manage MariaDB 10.3 with ClusterControl
MariaDB Server is no longer a straight imitate of MySQL. It grew into a mature fork, which implements new functionalities similar to what proprietary database systems offer in the upstream. MariaDB...
View ArticleHow to Monitor PostgreSQL Running Inside a Docker Container: Part Two
This is the second part of the multi-series How to Monitor PostgreSQL Running Inside a Docker Container. In Part 1, I presented an overview of docker containers, policies and networking. In this part...
View ArticleOracle’s Ironclad Autonomous Database
NEWS ALERT: “The Marriott just revealing a massive data breach involving guest reservation database at its Starwood brand. Marriott says it was unauthorized access since 2014. This includes up to 500...
View ArticlePostgreSQL Index vs InnoDB Index - Understanding the Differences
Considering the current major use-case of a database as to retrieve data, it becomes very important that its performance is very high and It can only be achieved if data is fetched in the most...
View ArticleHow to Run PHP 5 Applications with MySQL 8.0 on CentOS 7
Despite the fact that PHP 5 has reached end-of-life, there are still legacy applications built on top of it that need to run in production or test environments. If you are installing PHP packages via...
View ArticleBig Data with PostgreSQL and Apache Spark
PostgreSQL is well known as the most advanced opensource database, and it helps you to manage your data no matter how big, small or different the dataset is, so you can use it to manage or analyze your...
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