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Database-Aware Load Balancing: How to Migrate from HAProxy to ProxySQL
HAProxy and ProxySQL are both very popular load balancers in MySQL world, but there is a significant difference between both those proxies. We will not go into details here, you can read more about...
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MariaDB MaxScale Load Balancing on Docker: Management: Part Two
This blog post is a continuation of MariaDB MaxScale Load Balancing on Docker: Deployment - Part1. In this part, we are going to focus more on management operations with advanced use cases like...
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How 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...
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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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Database Load Balancing with ProxySQL & AWS Aurora
ProxySQL is a proven solution that helps database administrators dealing with the requirements for high availability of their databases. Because it is SQL-aware, it can also be used for shaping the...
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Database Load Balancing in the Cloud - MySQL Master Failover with ProxySQL...
The cloud provides very flexible environments to work with. You can easily scale it up and down by adding or removing nodes. If there’s a need, you can easily create a clone of your environment. This...
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Announcing ClusterControl 1.7.4: Cluster-to-Cluster Replication - Ultimate...
We’re excited to announce the 1.7.4 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...
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Database Load Balancing in the Cloud - MySQL Master Failover with ProxySQL...
In the previous blog we showed you how to set up an environment in Amazon AWS EC2 that consists of a Percona Server 8.0 Replication Cluster (in Master - Slave topology). We deployed ProxySQL and we...
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Understanding the ProxySQL Audit Log
ProxySQL became a very important bit of infrastructure in the database environments. It works as a load balancer, it helps to shape the flow of the traffic and reduce the downtime. With great power...
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How to Install and Configure MaxScale for MariaDB
There are different reasons for adding a load balancer between your application and your database. If you have high traffic (and you want to balance the traffic between different database nodes) or you...
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How to Replace an Intermediate MySQL or MariaDB Master with a Binlog Server...
Binary logs (binlogs) contain records of all changes to the databases. They are necessary for replication and can also be used to restore data after a backup. A binlog server is basically a binary log...
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Database Load Balancing on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Using HAProxy
Using a Load Balancer is a good idea for any database technology, as you can redirect applications to the available or healthy database nodes and even distribute the traffic across multiple servers to...
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How Performant is Your ProxySQL Node?
ProxySQL has gained a lot of interest right now in the MySQL and MariaDB database world, not to mention ClickHouse which helps make the case for ProxySQL. It’s safe to say that ProxySQL has become the...
View ArticleA Guide to Configuring a Load Balancer in a MongoDB Sharded Cluster
For any database, the load balancing of all the requests coming from clients is an important and fundamental mechanism to ensure scalability. A proper load balancing solution spreads all the client...
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Announcing ClusterControl 1.7.6: HA Stack Deployments in the Cloud with HAProxy
We’re excited to announce the 1.7.6 release of ClusterControl - the only database management system you’ll ever need to take control of your open source database infrastructure. This new edition...
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PostgreSQL Load Balancing in the Cloud Made Easy
We’d mentioned many times the advantages of using a Load Balancer in your database topology. It could be for redirecting traffic to healthy database nodes, distribute the traffic across multiple...
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Manage Engine HAProxy Monitoring Alternatives - ClusterControl HAProxy...
In a previous blog, we looked at the differences between ManageEngine Applications Manager and ClusterControl, examining the main features of each and comparing them. In this blog we will focus on the...
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proxysql-admin Alternatives - ClusterControl ProxySQL GUI
ProxySQL is a very popular proxy in MySQL environments. It comes with a nice set of features including read/write splitting, query caching and query rewriting. ProxySQL stores its configuration in...
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Database Load Balancing in a Multi-Cloud Environment
Multi-cloud environments are a very good solution to implement disaster recovery and very high level of high availability. They help to ensure that even a full outage of a whole region of one cloud...
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What's New in MariaDB MaxScale 2.4
MaxScale 2.4 was released on December 21st, 2019, and ClusterControl 1.7.6 supports the monitoring and managing up to this version. However, for deployment, ClusterControl only supports up to version...
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