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May 22, 2020

Exploring MySQL™ Binlog Server – Ripple

MySQL does not limit the number of slaves that you can connect to the master server in a replication topology....

Apr 28, 2020

Reducing Your Database Hosting Costs: DigitalOcean vs. AWS vs. Azure

If you’re hosting your databases in the cloud, choosing the right cloud service provider is a significant decision to make...

Apr 16, 2020

Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) vs. Dedicated Hosting at ScaleGrid

Where you decide to host your cloud databases is a huge decision. You have to choose your hosting model, a...

Mar 23, 2020

PostgreSQL® Connection Pooling: Part 3 – Pgpool-II

In our previous posts in this series, we discussed the case for connection pooling and introduced PgBouncer. In this post,...

Mar 23, 2020

COVID-19 Preparedness at ScaleGrid

Customers & Friends, With the impact of COVID-19 growing around the world, we are taking proactive steps to prepare our...

Feb 17, 2020

Important Health Checks for your MySQL™ Source-Replica Servers

In a MySQL source-replica high availability (HA) setup, it is important to continuously monitor the health of the source and...

Jan 20, 2020

Follower Clusters – 3 Major Use Cases for Syncing SQL™ & NoSQL Deployments

Follower clusters are a ScaleGrid feature that allows you to keep two independent database systems (of the same type) in...

Jan 3, 2020

How to Monitor MySQL™ Deployments with Prometheus & Grafana at ScaleGrid

Monitoring your MySQL database performance in real-time helps you immediately identify problems and other factors that could be causing issues now...

Dec 19, 2019

PostgreSQL® Connection Pooling: Part 2 – PgBouncer

Regarding connection pooling in PostgreSQL, PgBouncer is probably the most popular option. It’s a simple utility that does exactly one...

Dec 16, 2019

The Best Way to Host MongoDB® on DigitalOcean

MongoDB is the #3 open-source database and the #1 NoSQL database in the world. It’s a cross-platform document-oriented database that...

Dec 9, 2019

Re-Slaving a Crashed MySQL™ Master Server in Semisynchronous Replication Setup

In a MySQL 5.7 master-slave setup that uses the default semisynchronous replication setting for rpl_semi_sync_master_wait_point, a crash of the master...

Nov 25, 2019

ScyllaDB Trends – How Users Deploy The Real-Time Big Data Database

ScyllaDB is an open-source distributed NoSQL data store, reimplemented from the popular Apache Cassandra database. Released just four years ago...

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