Become a ClusterControl DBA: Performance and Health Monitoring
In the previous two blog posts we covered both deploying the four types of clustering/replication (MySQL/Galera, MySQL Replication, MongoDB & PostgreSQL) and managing/monitoring your existing...
View ArticleCustom Graphs to Monitor your MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB and PostgreSQL Systems...
Graphs are important, as they are your window onto your monitored systems. ClusterControl comes with a predefined set of graphs for you to analyze, these are built on top of the metric sampling done by...
View ArticleBecome a ClusterControl DBA: Operational Reports for MySQL, MariaDB,...
The majority of DBA’s perform health checks on their databases every now and then. Usually, it would happen on a daily or weekly basis. We previously discussed why such checks are important and what...
View ArticleIntroducing Agent-Based Database Monitoring with ClusterControl 1.7
We are excited to announce the 1.7 release of ClusterControl - the only management system you’ll ever need to take control of your open source database infrastructure!ClusterControl 1.7 introduces new...
View ArticleNew White Paper on State-of-the-Art Database Management: ClusterControl - The...
Today we’re happy to announce the availability of our first white paper on ClusterControl, the only management system you’ll ever need to automate and manage your open source database...
View ArticleA Developer’s Guide to MongoDB Sharding
A massive growth of data comes with a cost of reduced throughput operations especially when being served by a single server. However, you can improve this performance by increasing the number of...
View ArticleWebinar: Backup Management for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL & MongoDB with...
Are you frustrated with traditional, labour-intensive backup and archive practices for your MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB and PostgreSQL databases?What if you could have one backup management solution for...
View ArticleLinking & Creating MongoDB Joins Using SQL - Part 1
SQL is the most preferred way of engaging relational databases as far as querying is concerned. It’s understood that users would have worked with relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL that...
View ArticleLinking & Creating MongoDB Joins Using SQL - Part 2
JOIN is one of the key distinct features between SQL and NoSQL databases. In SQL databases, we can perform a JOIN between two tables within the same or different databases. However, this is not the...
View ArticlePercona Live Frankfurt 2018 - Event Recap & Our Sessions
Severalnines was pleased to yet again sponsor Percona Live Europe which was held this year in Frankfurt, Germany. Thanks to the Percona Team for having us and the great organisation.At the...
View ArticleLinking & Creating MongoDB Joins Using SQL - Part 3
Multiple JOINS in a single queryMultiple JOINS are normally associated with multiple collections, but you must have a basic understanding of how the INNER JOIN works (see my previous posts on this...
View ArticleDeploying MongoDB Using Docker
The main advantage of using MongoDB is that it’s easy to use. One can easily install MongoDB and start working on it in minutes. Docker makes this process even easier.One cool thing about Docker is...
View ArticleHow to Use MongoDB Data Modeling to Improve Throughput Operations
The efficiency of a database not only relies on fine-tuning the most critical parameters, but also goes further to appropriate data presentation in the related collections. Recently, I worked on a...
View ArticleSeveralnines 2018 Momentum: Raising the Bar on MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL &...
I’d like to take advantage of the quiet days between holidays to look back on 2018 at Severalnines as we continue to advance automation and management of the world’s most popular open source databases:...
View ArticleMongoDB in 2018 - A Year in Review
MongoDB is by far the most popular choice in NoSQL world as its distributed architecture allows for more scalability and its document data model provides good flexibility to developers. Almost every...
View ArticleAnnouncing ClusterControl 1.7.1: Support for PostgreSQL 11 and MongoDB 4.0,...
We are excited to announce the 1.7.1 release of ClusterControl - the only management system you’ll ever need to take control of your open source database infrastructure!ClusterControl 1.7.1 introduces...
View ArticleHow to Monitor MongoDB with Prometheus & ClusterControl
SCUMM (Severalnines ClusterControl Unified Monitoring & Management) is an agent-based solution with agents installed on the database nodes. It provides a set of monitoring dashboards, that have...
View ArticleDatabase Security - How to Use Encryption to Protect Your MongoDB Data
Database security is a key factor to consider for any application that involves highly sensitive data such as financial and health reports. Data protection can be achieved through encryption at...
View ArticleMonitoring & Ops Management of MongoDB 4.0 with ClusterControl
While MongoDB has spent nearly a decade achieving maturity (initial release Feb 2009), the technology is a bit of a mystery to those experienced in conventional relational database (RDBMS)...
View ArticleOperational Factors to Consider During MongoDB Data Modeling
In my previous blog, How to use MongoDB Data Modelling to Improve Throughput Operations, we discussed the 2 major data modelling relationship approaches that is, embedding and referencing. The...
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