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Comparing Galera Cluster Cloud Offerings: Part One Amazon AWS
Running a MySQL Galera Cluster (either the Percona, MariaDB, or Codership build) is, unfortunately, not a supported (nor part of) the databases supported by Amazon RDS. Most of the databases supported...
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Tips for Storing PostgreSQL Backups on Amazon AWS
Data is probably one of the most valuable assets in a company. Because of this we should always have a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) to prevent data loss in the event of an accident or hardware failure....
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An Overview of the Various Scan Methods in PostgreSQL
In any of the relational databases engines, it is required to generate a best possible plan which corresponds to the execution of the query with least time and resources. Generally, all databases...
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Cloud Vendor Deep-Dive: PostgreSQL on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Where to Start?The best place I could find to start was none other than the official documentation. There is also a GCP Youtube channel for those who prefer multimedia. Once finding myself into the...
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Comparing Failover Times for Amazon Aurora, Amazon RDS, and ClusterControl
If your IT infrastructure is running on AWS, you have probably heard about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), an easy way to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It...
View ArticleComparing Galera Cluster Cloud Offerings: Part Two Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
In our last blog we discussed the offerings available within Amazon Web Services (AWS) when running a MySQL Galera Cluster. In this blog, we'll continue the discussion by looking further at what the...
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Database Failover for WordPress Websites
Every profitable enterprise requires high availability. Websites & Blogs are no different as even smaller companies and individuals require their sites to stay live to keep their reputation....
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Database Load Balancing Using HAProxy on Amazon AWS
When traffic to your database increases day-after-day it can start to become hard to manage. When this situation happens it’s useful to distribute the traffic across multiple servers, thus improving...
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An Overview of MongoDB Atlas: Part Two
In the first part of the blog “An Overview of MongoDB Atlas,” we looked at getting started with MongoDB Atlas, the initial setup and migration of an existing MongoDB Cluster to MongoDB Atlas. In this...
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An Overview of the JOIN Methods in PostgreSQL
In my previous blog, we discussed various ways to select, or scan, data from a single table. But in practical, fetching data from a single table is not enough. It requires selecting data from multiple...
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Cloud Vendor Deep-Dive: PostgreSQL on Microsoft Azure
If you have followed Microsoft lately it will come as no surprise that the provider of a competing database product, namely SQL Server, also jumped on the PostgreSQL bandwagon. From releasing 60,000...
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Comparing Galera Cluster Cloud Offerings: Part Three Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure is known to many as an alternative public cloud platform to Amazon AWS. It's not easy to directly compare these two giant companies. Microsoft's cloud business -- dubbed commercial...
View ArticleThe Basics of Deploying a MongoDB Replica Set and Shards Using Puppet
Database system perform best when they are integrated with some well defined approaches that facilitate both the read and write throughput operations. MongoDB went the extra mile by embracing...
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Integrations & Services Available from MongoDB for the Cloud
MongoDB is a document data store that has been around for over a decade. In the last few years, MongoDB has evolved into a mature product that features enterprise-grade options like scalability,...
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Automatic Scaling with Amazon Aurora Serverless
Amazon Aurora Serverless provides an on-demand, auto-scalable, highly-available, relational database which only charges you when it’s in use. It provides a relatively simple, cost-effective option for...
View ArticleDatabase Switchover and Failover for Drupal Websites Using MySQL or PostgreSQL
Drupal is a Content Management System (CMS) designed to create everything from tiny to large corporate websites. Over 1,000,000 websites run on Drupal and it is used to make many of the websites and...
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The Most Common PostgreSQL Failure Scenarios
There is not a perfect system, hardware, or topology to avoid all the possible issues that could happen in a production environment. Overcoming these challenges requires an effective DRP (Disaster...
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Achieving MySQL Failover & Failback on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
There are numerous cloud providers these days. They can be small or large, local or with data centers spread across the whole world. Many of these cloud providers offer some kind of a managed...
View ArticlePostgreSQL Top Learning & Training Resources
Oftentimes, people want to know about “That One Place” to get all their learning and training resources for PostgreSQL. When I get such a question from a colleague, my typical response it to tell them...
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MongoDB Database Automation Basics Using Chef
Managed environments grow over time, often as a result of the increased data involvement or maybe due to the need of increasing performance through shared workload. Because of this there is a need to...
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